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Robert Hanks: Dennis Wheatley, 20 January 2011
The Devil Is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley
by Phil Baker.
Dedalus, 699 pp., £25, October 2009,978 1 903517 75 8 Show More
by Phil Baker.
Dedalus, 699 pp., £25, October 2009,
“... a reputation in Whitehall as a generous luncheon host and found a new circle of friends, including Ian Fleming and at least one duke (Bond’s enthusiasm for luxury brands seems to owe something to Wheatley’s style). He proudly related that the king, a professed fan of his fiction, had asked to see a copy of every report he wrote: all in all, a good war. His ... ”