A very quick review in praise of Stephen Clarke’s The Spy Who Inspired Me. A rollickingly good read mimicking Ian Flemming (or Lemming for copyright reasons) that shares one of the hero’s wartime tales demonstrating the vast amount of inspiration that Flemming himself drew from his own experience and associations. In the unique style of Clarke (am sure there are a couple other reviews of his work on this blog) he offers tongue in cheek whit along with sparkling PC-challenging inter-gender relationships. In this case we travel with Ian Flemming to wartime France in an accidental? espionage journey with unspecified ed objectives. In the vein of A Year in the Merde etc, Clarke delivers taut interaction, solid humour and good clean fun all the time dropping less than subtle references to Flemming’s subsequent adventures of James Bond along with contemporary witticisms – i.e. PG Brickhouse. As said – great fun, well recommended light and enjoyable reading.