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July 1943: a high-level Anglo-American naval conference in Kingston,
Jamaica. German U-boats are causing havoc in the Caribbean, sinking vital
shipping.
Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence Ian Fleming is sent to the
island to help deal with the pressing problem. There are wild rumours that
Axel Wenner-Gren, the millionaire Swede supposedly linked to Hermann
Goering, has built a secret submarine base on Hog Island, his private
paradise isle near Nassau. Urgent action is needed to prevent threats to the
vital shipping route from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe and Africa.
Fleming brings along his boyhood friend Ivar Bryce, who also works in
intelligence. Bryce is keen to show Fleming Jamaica, where his current wife
has recently purchased a famous plantation ‘Great House’, Bellevue,
perched 1,500 feet above Kingston. This is where the two men will stay.
Fleming and Bryce meet in New York and take the Silver Meteor to
Miami – the very same journey that will one day be replicated by Bond and
Solitaire in Live and Let Die. From there they fly to Kingston, to find
Jamaica ‘pelting with rain as well as quivering with the heat of a Turkish
bath’. The five-day conference takes place at Kingston’s waterside Myrtle
Bank, one of the island’s largest and best hotels. But thanks to Bryce,
Fleming retreats each night from the sticky heat of the city up to the
serenity of Bellevue.
It is at Bellevue that the story of Fleming in Jamaica begins. It is here
that Fleming falls in love with the island that will give birth to his iconic
creation: British intelligence officer James Bond.
Borrowing a car, Fleming and Bryce headed through the growing darkness
and relentless downpour to Half Way Tree (then a village outside
Kingston), before leaving the main road to climb a zigzagging track, the
surface of which ‘resembled a river bed’. After ‘endless hairpin bends’,
requiring very careful driving, they reached Bellevue at last. It was dark,
locked and had clearly seen better days. Shouting and knocking eventually
produced Elizabeth, the old Jamaican caretaker, who let them in and rustled
up a ‘stringy, tasteless’ chicken and some ‘unaccustomed’ yams for them to
eat. There was no alcohol; only a bottle of grenadine, so that was what they
drank that first night. Holding the pink glass, Fleming took a chair out on to
the veranda, edging it as near the falling curtain of rain as possible. There
he sat staring out into the streaming darkness, lost in thought.
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