This is a true story of a force of 'licensed to kill' secret agents, commanded by a real war time secret service chief code names M, with whom Ian Fleming worked, and upon whom his James Bond stories were based.Brigadier Colin Gubbins was M, the Special Operations Executive was his Secret Service, Professor Dudley Newitt was Q and Captain Gus March-Phillips commanded 'Maid of Honor Force', the team of 'James Bonds' who, in a daring operation, sailed a Q ship to West Africa and stole three enemy ships from a neutral Spanish port on the volcanic island of Fernando Po. Ian Fleming worked closely with M to oil the wheels that made the operation possible, and prepared the cover story, in which the British Government lied in order to conceal British responsibility for the raid. M's agents prepared the ground on Fernando Po, even enmeshing the Governor in a honey trap. March-Phillips and his team carried out the raid successfully in January 1942, despite much opposition from the local regular Army and Navy commanders, and in the face of overwhelming odds. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told Fleming's lies on the international stage, denying any British complicity in the operation. As a result, a secrecy embargo enveloped Operation POSTMASTER until recently.The author, an experienced criminal QC, proves beyond doubt that this thrilling operation, and the men who carried it out, were the inspiration for Fleming's James Bond.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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There is a good story in there somewhere but the writer gets in the way. Iwas left with the feeling that the reading of it demanded too much of the reader by way of patience. It drags on, the style of writing is not at all compelling, there is too much repitition and too much of which is not really relevant and much that need not have been said. If you are interested in the facts of Operation postmaster then buy it but if you just want agood adventure then can I recommend Dr. No by Ian Flemming. Patrick H.
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As a fan of 007 and all his works, I cannot think of a better 'companion' to the 50th anniversary of Bond on film than this exhaustively researched true tale of a once-secret wartime mission which might have provided many of the inspirations for Ian Fleming's subsequent James Bond fictions which first took off a little over a decade after the events portrayed so vividly in Brian Lett's book. There have been, and still continue to be, many claims as to the secret agent's real-life inspiration. In this truly bizarre story which moves from the beaches of Dunkirk to several sweaty colonial outposts in West Africa, Lett makes a convincing case for his gallery of disparate characters, and their extraordinary gung-ho, to have helped provide at least a composite for the man who would be Bond.
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