THRILLING CITIES: Fourteen Cities Seen Through the Eyes of Ian Fleming, the Creator of James Bond

From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, Fleming left the bright main streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in favor of underground haunts, and mingling with celebrities, gangsters and geishas. The result is a series of vivid snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world from a 20th century Western perspective.