Shaken and Stirred
Bond, James Bond: Agitado y Revuelto (1998)

“I write books for warm-blooded heterosexuals. Books to be read on the train, on the plane or in bed.” With such barely elevated poetics, the British writer — and ex-spy — Ian Fleming created one of the essential myths of 20th century popular culture. Sophisticated, seductive, elegant, violent, ruthless, and shameless, Agent 007 rode — and eventually used — his license to kill in a series of fast-paced novels, loved by John Fitzgerald Kennedy himself, and quickly brought to life on the big screen generating one of the most popular sagas of modern action cinema. With the film success stories of Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, the perfect pop hero immortalized a creative universe populated by megalomaniacal supervillains, stunning Bond girls, deadly technological devices and the latest model cars. This book addresses the Bond myth without forgetting any of its ramifications, demonstrating that, for the fortunate creation of Ian Fleming, tomorrow never dies.