[josephorjoe]

yeah, really kind of a weird attempt to put down a long dead author for having some luck with birth and some success with writing spy novels (and essentially defining the genre).

i guess it is an attempt to generate clicks by fabricating a controversy?

it would be one thing if it were a serious attempt to critique the values espoused by bond/fleming, but it is just a bland flattening of the truth with some uninspired spitting on it.

[rbanffy]

Well… as anyone in intelligence will point out, the novels, while genre-defining, are ludicrously unrealistic.

In fact, being unremarkable is the hallmark of excellence in intelligence ops, therefore, I assume Mr Fleming was very good at his day job.

[smackeyacky]

Genre defining for action spy novels (and untold numbers of big budget movie scripts). More interestingly, realistic novels like those of John le Carre probably wouldn't have happened without Fleming creating the market for them.

[JJMcJ]

Only the first, Casino Royale, is close to realistic.

Some of the short stories also seem realistic, as does The Spy Who Loved Me.

The later books seem more fanciful.