Bond.
In The Man Who Saved Britain, Simon Winder lovingly and ruefully re-creates the nadirs of his own fandom.
By inventing the parallel World of secret British greatness and glamour, Ian Fleming fabricated an icon that has endured long past its maker\'s death.
The ultimate British hero--suave, stoic, gadget-driven--was, more than anything, the necessary invention of a traumatized country whose self-image as a great power had just been shattered by the Second World War.
James Bond.
Bond