James Bond

Icebreaker (novel)

source: James Bond Wiki

Icebreaker is the third spy novel written by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. The novel was published in 1983 by Jonathan Cape and is considered by fans to be Gardner's best Bond novel. Who can Bond trust?

Published Sat, Nov 7

Can we manipulate the weather?

source: EducationGuardian.co.uk

Victor is a heavyweight policy analyst, but one of his most impressive academic feats could have been to smuggle the name of the world's favourite secret agent into the sober pages of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. "Geoengineering may not require any collective international eff...

Published Tue, Nov 3

Reel Toronto: The Tuxedo

source: Torontoist

This is a movie about a taxi/limo driver, played by Jackie Chan, who wears a magic suit that makes him do kung fu shit, and he fights evil criminals with help from a scientist or secret agent or something played by Jennifer Love Hewitt. Yeah, this is precisely the sort of movie that usually get...

Published Tue, Nov 3

Rumor: Animator resume lists work on 'GoldenEye 2010'

source: Joystiq

Shortly before being pulled from the internet's intimidating view, an animator's online resume may have let out a secret -- concerning an iconic secret agent. According to the eagle-eyed Superannuation, Craig Peck listed work on a game dubbed "GoldenEye 2010 (Wii)," created in associ...

Published Mon, Oct 26

Daniel Melnick

source: Guardian Unlimited

Melnick first made his name as the brains behind Get Smart (1965-70), the hugely popular comedy series lampooning the secret-agent genre. Most episodes, which starred Don Adams as the blundering spy Maxwell Smart, working for Control, a secret US government counter-espionage agency...

Published Wed, Oct 21

Sir Sean Connery talks wine and whiskey

source: MI6

Sir Sean Connery, 79, burst into stardom in 1962, with his portrayal of British secret agent James Bond in Dr. No. But Connery appeared in dozens of films between his debut in 1954 and his retirement in 2003, and he won an Oscar as best supporting...

Published Tue, Oct 6

Rare Ian Fleming inscribed first editions up for auction this month

source: MI6

A first edition signed and inscribed copy of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale, the book that introduced the world to its favorite secret agent, the one and only James Bond, headlines Heritage Auctions' Rare Books auction, Oct. 16-17. The fact that the ...

Published Wed, Sep 30

Tarantino mulls Deighton spy film to rival Bond

source: EducationGuardian.co.uk

Unlike Bond creator Ian Fleming, Deighton is still going strong. At the height of his writing success in 1967 he wrote Len Deighton's London Dossier, a guide book to swinging-60s London on a "secret agent" theme. He has also published several cookery volumes, including his Action Cook Boo...

Published Thu, Aug 13