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It's Time To Live...007 with James Bond

It is September 2021, No Time To Die approaches its 8th or 9th release date after getting postponed again and again, I have a tiny bit of free time, and voila...here's Ian Fleming's master spy, at your service, with ePubs and Walther PPK's (I have the former, he only has the latter). Jokes aside, James Bond has become the world's most famous spy. Who's Jason Bourne? Only Johnny English came close to dethroning Mr. Bond, and even he failed. But if you've seen the movies, from Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Brosnan and finally the inimitable Mr Craig (I know I missed one guy), you might be expecting a pranksterish witty one-liner-shooting English gentleman; AHOY. James Bond is NOT a gentleman. If he'd lived in our times he'd already have gone to several jails, thrown there by the #METOO brigade. He kills who he has to, and doesn't shed one bloody tear (cue "The bitch is dead"). Oh, he's very much human, full of faults; the author, Ian Fleming,