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Fleming also modelled aspects of Bond on [[Conrad O'Brien-ffrench]], a spy whom Fleming had met while skiing in Kitzbühel in the 1930s, [[Patrick Dalzel-Job]], who served with distinction in 30AU during the war, and [[Wilfred Dunderdale|Bill "Biffy" Dunderdale]], station head of MI6 in Paris, who wore cufflinks and handmade suits and was chauffeured around Paris in a [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Royce]].<ref name=" Macintyre (2008)" />{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|pp=68–69}} [[Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet|Sir Fitzroy Maclean]] was another possible model for Bond, based on his wartime work behind enemy lines in the [[Balkans]], as was the MI6 [[double agent]] [[Duško Popov]].{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=54}} Fleming also endowed Bond with many of his own traits, including the same golf handicap, his taste for scrambled eggs, his love of gambling, and use of the same brand of toiletries.{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=50}}<ref name="Cook (2004)" />

The ''Times Literary Supplement'' reported that Fleming was a book collector and founder of the antiquarian journal, ''[[The Book Collector]].''<ref>J.C.“[https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-agents-secret/ The Agent’s Secret.]” ''TLS''. Times Literary Supplement no. 5946 (2017): 36.</ref> In 1956 Fleming began to participate in attracting advertising revenue for the journal. Details of Fleming's work to support the journal including excerpts from his letters to the editorial staff are included in the article, “Ian Fleming & Book Collecting."<ref>Fergusson, James. 2017. “Ian Fleming & Book Collecting [Special Issue].” ''The Book Collector'' 66 (1): 11–214.</ref>

After the publication of ''Casino Royale'', Fleming used his annual holiday at his house in Jamaica to write another Bond story.<ref name="Lycett (DNB)" /> Twelve Bond novels and two short-story collections were published between 1953 and 1966, the last two (''[[The Man with the Golden Gun (novel)|The Man with the Golden Gun]]'' and ''[[Octopussy and The Living Daylights]]'') posthumously.{{sfn|Black|2005|p=75}} Much of the background to the stories came from Fleming's previous work in the Naval Intelligence Division or from events he knew of from the [[Cold War]].{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=90}} The plot of [[From Russia, with Love (novel)|''From Russia, with Love'']] uses a fictional Soviet Spektor decoding machine as a lure to trap Bond; the Spektor had its roots in the wartime German Enigma machine.{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=97}} The novel's plot device of spies on the [[Orient Express]] was based on the story of Eugene Karp, a US naval attaché and intelligence agent based in Budapest who took the Orient Express from Budapest to Paris in February 1950, carrying papers about blown US spy networks in the [[Eastern Bloc]]. Soviet assassins already on the train drugged the conductor, and Karp's body was found shortly afterwards in a railway tunnel south of [[Salzburg]].{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=96}}