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“潜入”伊恩 .弗莱明的牙买加 The first law for a secret agent is to get his geography right, ” Ian Fleming wrote in 3)The Man with the Golden Gun. And so it is for anyone following the trail of the man who created the world ’ s most famous secret agent through his adopted island of Jamaica, a journey that starts near Kingston on the tiny 4)spit of beach called the Palisadoes that connects the city to Norman Manley International Airport. Only five miles from the airport, you are already deep into Ian Fleming ’ s Jamaica. The island was Fleming ’s retreat, artist 5)colony and passion, and he repeatedly sent Bond on assignment there. The legendary spy experienced the island as Fleming did ― beautifu and underdeveloped with enough exoticism, history and potential for danger to justify it as a 6)backdrop for postwar 7)espionage adventure. Fleming’ s Jamaica is a 8)Venn diagram of three 9)overlapping spheres: the author ’ s actual Jamaica of the 1950s and early ’ 60s (when the island was a British colony rapidly becoming a hot spot for the rich and famous); the semi-fictional Jamaica as seen through James Bond; and Jamaica as a 10)location for the 007 film 11)franchise. In 1947 Fleming wrote a portrait of his adopted home in 12)Horizon magazine, influential enough to fuel a postwar tourist 13)boomlet among 14)well-heeled Britons and Americans. “ I have examined a large part of the world, ” h wrote. “ After looking at all these, I spent four days in Jamaica in July 1943. July is the beginning of the hot season and it rained everyday at noon, yet I swore that if I survived the contest I would go back to Jamaica, buy a piece of land, build a house and live in it as much as my job would allow. ” He did just that as foreign manager for 15)Kemsley Newspapers. The Palisadoes at night is still as Fleming described it in 16)Dr. No, a “ long 17)cactus-18)fringed road ” with “ the steady 19)zing of the crickets, the rush of warm, scented air ... the necklace of yellow lights shimmerin g across