John le Carré and Ian Fleming, the world’s most famous spy novelists, share experience in UK intelligence and difficult childhoods. But their heroes, George Smiley and James Bond, are very different.
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Ian Fleming’s secret service exploits and a real war hero were behind the creation of 007 he had misgivings about casting an ‘overdeveloped stuntman’ in the role for Dr No. Nicholas Shakespeare tells the story in this exclusive extract from his new book