Timothy Dalton fantasy plots and humour. A fan of the literary character, often seen re-reading and referring to the novels on set, Dalton determined to approach the role and play truer to the original character described by Fleming. His 007, therefore, came across as a reluctant agent who did not always enjoy the assignments he was given, something seen on screen before, albeit obliquely, only in George Lazenby's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". In "The Living Daylights," for example, Bond tells a critical colleague, Saunders, "Stuff my orders! ... Tell M what you want. If he fires me, I'll thank him for
The Book of Bond edition of this book was published with a false slipcover printed with the title "The Bible to be Read as Literature". In one of the early Bond novels, Bond carries his gun in a hollowed out book of this title. Amis, a close friend of Fleming's, was also responsible for two other works related to the James Bond series. In 1965, he wrote "The James Bond Dossier", a collection of essays on the book and film series, and in 1968, under the pseudonym Robert Markham, he wrote the Bond novel "Colonel Sun". The Book of Bond The Book of Bond