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
Nancy Bond began to write her first book, which she set in Wales. She became head librarian in the Gardner, Massachusetts library in 1973.<ref name=20th> Nancy Bond Nancy Barbara Bond (born 1945) is an American author of children's literature. In 1977 her first book, "A String in the Harp", received a Newbery honor and the Welsh Tir na n-Og Award. It is fantasy novel with an element of folklore, set in West Wales. Nancy Barbara Bond was born January 8, 1945 in Bethesda, Maryland, and grew up near Concord, Massachusetts. When Bond was eight, the family spent a year in London while