Silver, Mitch

Silver, Mitch. In Secret Service. New York Touchstone Publishing, 2007. 

The fictional full-length depictions of Fleming and most of the work which the character of Fleming played a minor role can be divided into two periods fiction inspired by his service during WWII (Mitch Silver s In Secret Service) and the Fleming of the post war era (Quinn Fawcett s... 

Mitch Silver s work is a completely different work than the three Yarbro/Fawcett works. As stated before it is acmally two smaller works in one and the one work, Provenance, dominates the other. Provenance is reported to be written by Fleming himself (a long lost novel as it was) and, although not a Bond thriller, is a thriller none the less. It has the sensibilities of Fleming, his sense of humor, and outlook. Silver put a lot of thought and research into this half of In Secret Service and most readers will appreciate it. The other half of In Secret Service is the weak sister of the novel and is a tale of how Provenance came to be found. Provenance could stand on its own as a short novel, but not so for the other half... 

The secrecy surrounding Fleming s wartime intelligence activities has encouraged writers of spy thrillers to elaborate plots based upon speculative links between Fleming and the Duke of Windsor. See, for example, William Boyd s wy JTuwiaw Heart (2002) and Mitch Silver s 7n Secret Service (2008). 

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