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To round off June at the James Bond Book Club, we hope you enjoy this discussion with Dr. Lucas Townsend all about The Mask of Dimitrios, how it inspired Ian Fleming and its place in the history of espionage fiction.
Dr. Lucas Townsend is a lecturer and researcher in English Literature and Culture at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and the Associate Editor of...
Throughout his life Ian Fleming was fascinated by the appearance of things, whether it was the cut of a suit, the birds of Jamaica or a typeface. In 1947, while helping his friend Robert Harling at the typographical magazine Alphabet & Image, he conceived the idea of a competition for the best interpretation of a twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet.
...For our (00)7th James Bond Book Club selection, we’re spotlighting the novel that sits at the very heart of the genre. It is a book that James Bond himself reads. A book that helped inspire Ian Fleming’s creation of James Bond and has influenced generations of espionage writers. Without further ado, our June Book Club pick is… Eric Ambler’s The Mask of Dimitrios.
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