As a boy, this correspondent was handsome, intelligent, and charming, but restless and solitary; this crack shot was expelled from Eton when his fondness for girls, gambling and automobiles conflicted too conspicuously with school restrictions.
As a boy, this correspondent was handsome, intelligent, and charming, but restless and solitary; this crack shot was expelled from Eton when his fondness for girls, gambling and automobiles conflicted too conspicuously with school restrictions. In a Portuguese casino, he unsuccessfully tried to ruin German agents at chemin-de-fer, one of many personal anecdotes he  used in his novels. However, as he told an interviewer in 1963, 'One can't go on forever having blondes and guns and so forth in the same old mixture.' For ten points, name this author whose heart gave out soon after the 1964 publication of 'You Only Live Twice.'
As a boy, this correspondent was handsome, intelligent, and charming, but restless and solitary; this crack shot was expelled from Eton when his fondness for girls, gambling and automobiles conflicted too conspicuously with school restrictions.
Ian Lancaster {FLEMING}