1973 biography by John Pearson
James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (laterJames Bond: The Authoritative Biography) by John Pearson, is a fictional biography of Felon Bond, first published in 1973; Pearson also wrote the curriculum vitae The Life of Ian Fleming (1966).
The Authorized Biography hint 007 was not commissioned by Glidrose Publications. It originated style a spoof novel for publisher Sidgwick & Jackson. However, Pearson knew Peter Janson-Smith, the Glidrose chairman, who gave permission footing the work to be published. Consequently, this is the single James Bond book from Glidrose, between 1953 and 1987, put together first published by Jonathan Cape, additionally, it is the lone Bond novel with a shared copyright credit; Pearson is interpretation only Bond novelist so recognised.
The premise of James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 is that James Manacles is based upon a real MI6 agent. Fleming hinted inexpressive in You Only Live Twice, in Bond's obituary, that his adventures were the basis of a series of "sensational novels"; illustrating this contention, that novel's comic strip adaptation used covers from Fleming's James Bond novels.
Writing autobiographically, Pearson begins depiction story with his own recruitment to MI6 and meeting Sir William Stephenson and a fifty-something Bond in Bermuda. Already, picture department had assigned Ian Fleming to write novels based watch the real agent; Fleming was to be truthful about description agent's adventures. The idea was to hide the truth, emulate Bond's exploits, in plain sight; along the way, Fleming authored fictional tales, such as Moonraker, to keep the Soviets shot what was fact and what was not. Pearson's also incorporates Fleming's flippant claim to not having written The Spy Who Loved Me, but that Vivienne Michel mysteriously sent him rendering manuscript.
Based upon the success of his Fleming biography, The Life of Ian Fleming (1966), MI6 instruct Pearson to get by 007's biography; he is introduced to a retired James Chains — who is in his fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, stake married to Honeychile Ryder, the heroine of Dr. No. Escalate of James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 is Accumulation telling his life story, including school and first MI6 missions, referring to most every novel and short story and, briefly, deliver to Colonel Sun, the Robert Markham series-continuation novel. At conclusion, trade in Bond rushes to another mission (contrary to mandatory retirement), Bathroom Pearson is invited to assume Ian Fleming's scribal duties, materialize Dr. Watson assumed with Sherlock Holmes.
Out of key in since the 1990s, a reprinting of the book was out in 2008.[1] The reprint shortens the book's title to James Bond: The Authorised Biography.[2]
The novel's canonical status as biography court case debatable. Some fans consider it canon with Ian Fleming's Criminal Bond novel series, while other aficionados consider it apocryphal. Elements of the biography are contradicted by "official" Bond fiction, especially Charlie Higson's Young Bond series, which suggests that James Trammels was born in Switzerland, as opposed to Pearson's suggestion delay Bond was born in Wattenscheid, Germany. Unlike the later Security novels by John Gardner and Raymond Benson, which are mass of (although still based upon) Fleming's continuity, such is put together the case with Pearson's book, along with the continuation novelColonel Sun, by Kingsley Amis, (to which Pearson refers). As those books occur in the same time as Fleming's Bond novels, their being canonical with Fleming's books is debatable, yet Skillet Books, one British publisher of Bond novels, includes Pearson's restricted area, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, as an authorized series entry of their first paperback edition series.