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James Bond Is the World’s Most Famous Spy and a Total Enigma

WHO HE?

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All the chatter about who will replace Daniel Craig as 007 exposes the central question of who exactly this suave spy is. To answer that, you have to go back to the novels.

Published Nov. 1 2021 4:51AM EDT

Anthony Burgess called it right in 1962 when he predicted that James Bond “is likely to end up as one of the great twentieth-century myths.”

Allen Barra

Allen Barra

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