The story, the author tells us, is loosely based on tale he heard from a Holocaust survivor he met while working on his previous book while doing research across Europe and at Yad-Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Museum.

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A few days ago I reviewed The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming. It was not my favorite Bond novel (or film), but reading it was still a lot of fun – and isn’t that what it’s all about? For this post I researched the novel, and movie, a bit for a few fun facts to make your Friday go a bit faster. 1) The novel was published eight months after the death of Ian Fleming. 2) Fleming was unhappy with the book, but his copy editor thought it was viable for publication. 3) It seemed that Fleming was right, and the novel was not yet “ready for publication”, the reviewers kept their reviews polite, despite giving the novel a poor reception. 4) In the beginning of the novel, James Bond is presumed to be dead. 5) In 1965 the novel was serialized by the Daily Express and Playboy. 6) In 1966 an adaptation of the novel was published in the Daily Express in comic strip form. 7) The novel was made into a film in 1974, loosely based on the storyline Fleming drew out. 8) Christopher Lee, British actor, author, singer and lifelong badass, played the villain….

I mostly enjoyed the speeches included in this collection.This is because I can hear him talk in my head and know him to be an excellent writer

This is a clever book and the translation is simply brilliant

The novel is not unreadable, it is enjoyable for the Bond fans, but it is far from being one of the best in the series

Paul Erdman (19 May, 1932 – 23 April, 2007) was a financial and business writer. He was known for writing novels based on historical facts and complex financial intrigues. Books by Paul Erdman* 1) The author earned a PhD in economics and was a former Lutheran seminarian. 2) He was the first American to establish a private bank in Switzerland. 3) The bank collapsed because of unauthorized speculation in cocoa and silver futures. 4) Mr. Erdman started to write in a Swiss jail where he was serving time for his role in the collapse of a bank he ran. 5) The jail Mr. Erdman was until he was charged was a 17th century dungeon in Basel, complete room services and wines. 6) He is credited with popularizing financial fiction (affectionately called fi-fi). 7) The reason he wrote a novel was because the dungeon did not have a research library. 8) One of the inmates occupying the dungeon with Mr. Erdman was a French safecracker. Mr. Erdman traded wine for knowledge on safecracking and that became the first chapter in his book. 9) From a business perspective, Mr. Erdman considered his time in jail as a positive. 10) Mr. Erdman’s novels…

To enjoy this book, it’s good to be familiar with the character of Hook from the original play

Pumpkinflowers is in 3sections, a young Israeli soldier, his service and writings; the author about his time serving; returning to Lebanon as a Canadian tourist

The Doubleday editor who met with the author didn’t care for his idea of a non-fiction book about pirates, but loved the man eating shark terrorizing a community pitch. It is said that Mr. Benchley wrote a page in the Doubleday offices and immediately got an advance check.