The James Bond Dossier 'almost parodic scholarly dedication', Amis provides a ten-category ('Places', 'Girl', 'Villain's Project', etc.) reference guide (pp. 156–159) to the Bond novels and short stories. Typical of Amis's approach is where he suggests several implausibilities in Bond's capture by the eponymous villain in "Dr No" (1958). However, that 'Bond is temporarily helpless in his creator's grip', does not matter, because 'three of Mr Fleming's favourite situations are about to come up one after the other. Bond is to be wined and dined, lectured on the aesthetics of power, and finally tortured by his chief enemy'. Earlier, Amis had discussed the matter
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