I was interested in this view of James Bond, through the wrong end of the telescope so to speak, and after obtaining clearance for certain minor infringements of the Official Secrets Act I have much pleasure in sponsoring its publication. With the manuscript was a note signed 'Vivienne Michel' assuring me that what she had written was 'purest truth and from the depths of her heart'. According to her story, she appears to have been involved, both perilously and romantically, with the same James Bond whose secret service exploits I myself have written from time to time. As you will see, it appears to be the first person story of a young woman, evidently beautiful and not unskilled in the arts of love. I found what follows lying on my desk one morning. It was the third to star Roger Moore as Bond and used no plot elements from the novel. In 1977 the title was used for the tenth film in the Eon Productions series. However, the character of Jaws is loosely based on one of the characters in the book and a British paperback edition was published after his death.Ī heavily adapted version of The Spy Who Loved Me appeared in the Daily Express newspaper in daily comic strip format in 1967–1968. Broccoli, rather than any aspects of the plot. Fleming wrote a prologue to the novel giving Michel credit as a co-author.ĭue to the reactions by critics and fans, Fleming was not happy with the book and attempted to suppress elements of it where he could: he blocked a paperback edition in the United Kingdom and only gave permission for the title to be used when he sold the film rights to Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Bond himself does not appear until two-thirds of the way through the book. It is the shortest and most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, as well as a clear departure from previous Bond novels in that the story is told in the first person by a young Canadian woman, Vivienne Michel. The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel and tenth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published by Jonathan Cape on 16 April 1962.

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