The James Bond Dossier

The James Bond Dossier (1965), is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels. After Ian Fleming's death, Amis was commissioned as the first
continuation novelist for the James Bond novel series, writing Colonel Sun (1968) under the pseudonym Robert Markham. The James Bond Dossier was the first, formal, literary study of the James Bond character. More recent studies of Fleming's secret agent and his world include The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen (2001), by the historian Jeremy Black.
Written at the Bond-mania's zenith in the 1960s, The James Bond Dossier
is the first, thorough, albeit tongue-in-cheek, literary analysis of
Ian Fleming's strengths and weaknesses as a thriller-writer. As a
mainstream novelist, Amis respected the Bond novels, especially their
commercial success, believing them 'to be just as complex and to have
just as much in them as more ambitious kinds of fiction'. That was a controversial approach in the 1960s, because from early on,
since the mid-1950s, the James Bond novels were criticised by some
detractors for their violence, male chauvinism, sexual promiscuity, racism, and ant-Communism.