James Fleming was born in London in 1944, the fourth in a family of nine children. He read history at Oxford and has been variously an accountant, farmer, forester, and bookseller. A nephew of Ian Fleming (of James Bond fame), he is the author of two previous novels, The Temple of Optimism and Thomas Gage. He lives in Scotland.
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The son of an English father and a Russian mother, Charlie Doig is a big man—big in stature, in spirit, and in sexual appetites. A naturalist, he roughs it around the world collecting specimens for museums. In 1914, he is on a mission for the Academ... SEE MORE