that have not heard of Ian Lancaster Fleming,
pictured above, or have not watched one of the books he wrote made into a movie, starting of course James Bond 007, but I had not heard of his brother, until now,
Robert Peter Fleming OBE DL he was a a British adventurer, journalist, soldier and travel writer, and also the older brother of Ian Fleming,
Bayonets to Lhasa,
the book is for sale at Rooke Books,
yours for £245.00, I have to say that I would not mind a
copy, I am guessing it would be an interesting read, so on to my 'Books to Buy' list it goes, also I never knew about Ian Fleming's older brother.
If you're an espionage aficionado, an Ian Fleming follower or a 007 devotee then you must know about puffer fish poisons, who wrote the “Trout Memo”, what it was all about and how it was crucial to the ensuing Operation Mincemeat. If not, and you want to be an espionage illuminatus, you had best Google “Trout Memo”.
ReplyDeleteOf course, most espionage aficionados and real spies have read Bill Fairclough's epic spy thriller #BeyondEnkription in #TheBurlingtonFiles series. It was written by a real secret agent for espionage cognoscenti and actual spies and even includes many examples of lesser known spy practices that Ian Fleming would have loved.
The protagonist of The Burlington Files, Edward Burlington aka Bill Fairclough, lived just as “fast and furious” a life as James Bond or even the Gray Man did but with one subtle difference: it actually happened. Indeed, all his exploits in London, Nassau and Port au Prince in the first stand-alone novel in the series are based on hard facts some of which you can even check out with press cuttings.
By the way, Fairclough’s MI6 handler Mac aka Col Alan Pemberton CVO MBE knew Ian Fleming, Kim Philby and KGB Col Oleg Gordievsky. No surprise then that John le Carré refused to write a series of collaborative spy novels with Fairclough given Philby ended John le Carré’s MI6 career. Little wonder also that in hindsight Ian Fleming was thankful that he didn’t work directly for MI6.
See theburlingtonfiles.org and if you have any questions remember the best quote from The Burlington Files to date is "Don't ask me, I'm British".
See https://theburlingtonfiles.org and https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough for more facts about a real Maverick Agent.
Dear MI6, many thanks indeed for your insights, I will be looking at the link, as it happens way back in the 1980s I bumped into a retired 'agent' a colonel Stanley Young, apparently his position was in some sort of UK secret service many years before, I have looked on the Internet, and found no trace of him, but who knows, perhaps he was not in the 'normal' army but in one of the shadows? best regards, Stan and Diana.
ReplyDeleteStan/Diana - Sorry but I haven't come across him and unless he voluntarily steps out of the shadows for some reason I doubt he will have left anything other than disinformation about himself on the web. Best wishes
ReplyDeleteDear MI6, many thanks for trying to track him down, I meet him a couple of times in the mid 1980s, he was retired and into his early 70s I guess by then, I do not think he had any family, at least I never saw any family photographs, I only learned of his funeral after he was buried, such a nice chap, loved his G & T's best regards, Stan and Diana.
ReplyDeleteWell, at least you have happy memories - best wishes
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