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Two shots of Fleming. On the left hand side, he holds a copy of For Your Eyes Only and he looks pensive on the right hand side
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For Our Eyes Only
A boarding school upbringing, and an obsession with plots and gadgets, helped shape Fleming's '007' character. As a young naval intelligence officer, he was expected to dream up schemes to confuse the enemy.

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