CODE NAME CAPRICORN: My name is payne, John Payne

“MY NAME IS PAYNE, JOHN PAYNE!” Before there was Sean Connery there was almost John Payne Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, journalist, and intelligence officer best known for his series of secret agent novels. During the Second World War he served with British Naval Intelligence. His wartime service and later career as a […]

Codename: Capricorn — Ian Fleming and a Secret Agent Month

You don’t know who they are. You don’t know where they come from. You have no idea of their actual name or age. I could be one right now, and you would never know it. But that’s kind of the idea. In the world of spies everything is supposed to be shrouded in secrecy. Traveling […]

november nouveau: quantum of solace

Have regrets. Get revenge. QUANTUM OF SOLACE (2008) is a secret agent film and the second James Bond movie to star Daniel Craig. It was produced by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson thru their Eon Productions, directed by Marc Forster, and written by Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis, and Robert Wade. In addition to Daniel Craig […]

Remember SeptembEr: Reading Sanctum #15A ian fleming’s James Bond

As a New Year’s resolution, I began the year with what seemed to me to be a doable commitment to start and finish several series that were on my TBR (to be read) list. First and foremost were the Sue Grafton Kinsey Millhone alphabet series, an Amy Cross Mass Extinction Event series and the Veronica […]