The Lifeline Paperback Book - By Phyllis Bottome UK known as a 'contact sheet'

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is recruited by an old friend at the Foreign Office and introduced to his boss ‘B’

Each and every piece is crafted for comfort and style

Ian Fleming tips off the paper about his visit to the studios

She’s the daughter of a powerful crime boss

The Lifeline Paperback Book - By Phyllis Bottome UK known as a 'contact sheet'Introducing the first selection for The James Bond Book Club. To kick off the club, we are delighted to bring you The Lifeline, the novel that inspired Ian Flemings Bond, first published in 1946. It is 1938 and Mark Chalmers, a master at Eton, is recruited by an old friend at the Foreign Office and introduced to his boss B. Reluctantly he agrees to take on a covert mission for British Intelligence to parachute into Nazi occupied Austria and pass on