 The first edition published by Jonathan Cape has artwork from their previous Bond books: For Your Eyes Only (top), Goldfinger (left), You Only Live Twice (centre), The Man with the Golden Gun (right), Thunderball (bottom) | |
| Author | Kingsley Amis |
|---|---|
Publication date | 1965 |
| ISBN | 9789997512284 |
The James Bond Dossier (1965), by Kingsley Amis, is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels. Amis dedicated the book to friend and background collaborator, the poet and historian Robert Conquest. Later, after Ian Fleming's death, Amis was commissioned as the first continuation novelist for the James Bond novel series, writing Colonel Sun (1968) under the pseudonym Robert Markham. The James Bond Dossier was the first, formal, literary study of the James Bond character. More recent studies of Fleming's secret agent and his world include The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen (2001), by the historian Jeremy Black.