Mass national excitement for Bond and Fleming continues to grow; Fleming's centenary was in May, the Imperial War Museum launched its exhibition and the new film, Quantum of Solace, releases in November. The DVD will release in spring 2009 Revised and updated for the paperback edition, with a stunning plate section, For Your Eyes Only will be launched with a London Underground poster campaign Agent Zigzag has sold 20,000 hardbacks and 80,000 paperbacks; For Your Eyes Only has sold over 5,500 GBP20.00 hardbacks (BookScan)

'I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories' One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born and would go on to become one of the most successful, enduring and lucrative creations in literature. But Bond's world of glamour and romance, gadgets and cocktails, espionage and villainy wasn't entirely drawn from imagination: Fleming's background and his experiences as an intelligence officer during the Second World War were all formative parts in the creation of the world's most famous spy. Packed with astonishing detail and written in Macintyre's inimitable style, For Your Eyes Only is the most enlightening, enlivening book on the creator of the spy who not only lived twice, but proved to be immortal.