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Jan 1, 1935 — Aug 12, 1964· 29 yrs

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Ian Fleming

Also known as: Fleming, Ian, 1935-, Fleming, I. (Ian), 1935-

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Ian Fleming is an English organic chemist, and an emeritus professor of the University of Cambridge, and an emeritus fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was the first to determine the full structure of chlorophyll (in 1967) and was involved in the development of the synthesis of cyanocobalamin by Robert Burns Woodward. He has made major contributions to the use of organosilicon compounds for stereospecific syntheses; reactions which have found application in the synthesis of natural compounds. He is also a prolific author, and has written a number of textbooks, encyclopedia chapters and influential review articles. (Source)

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Most motorcars are conglomerations (this is a long word for bundles) of steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and gasoline and water, and the toffee papers you pushed down the crack in the back seat last Sunday.

— from Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, the magical car

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Moonraker

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Flamboyant red cropped hair, florid skin, eyes blazing with hate— This Is the Face of Hugo Drax, The Mystery Man Behind Moonraker. A stranger, he came out of nowhere to build England the deadliest weapon ever devised by a human brain. A maniacal genius, he now holds the life of secret agent JAMES BOND in his fiendishly clever hands!!

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Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, the magical car

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Two children persuade their father, an inventor, to purchase and restore an old car which turns out to have magical powers.

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To Catch a Spy

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This anthology of spy stories, selected and introduced by Eric Ambler, contains seven different stories by seven different authors. The Loathly Opposite by John Buchan Giulua Lazzari by Somerset Maugham The First Courier by Compton Mackenzie I Spy by Graham Greene Belgrade 1926 by Eric Ambler From a View To A Kill by Ian Fleming On Slay Down by Michael Gilbert

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