Even Alex Rider’s surname was inspired by the Bond girl Honeychile Rider from the Dr No novel. In the TV series, 14-year-old Alex Rider is thrust into the deadly world of espionage following the ...
Alas, the series was never made (although Anthony Horowitz recycled the plot in his 2015 Bond novel Trigger Mortis). And in fact 60 years after Fleming’s death, no Bond-based television drama ...