Karl Stromberg Karl Stromberg Karl Sigmund Stromberg is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1977 James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me". Stromberg was portrayed by Curt Jurgens. The character Stromberg was created specifically for the film by writer Christopher Wood. Ian Fleming's novel "The Spy Who Loved Me" was not told from Bond's perspective, but, rather, a Bond girl that is in love with him. The entire plot of the film has actually nothing to do at all with the plot of the novel. This was at Fleming's request; when he sold the rights to his novel
The James Bond Dossier The James Bond Dossier The James Bond Dossier (1965), by Kingsley Amis, is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels. Amis dedicated the book to friend and background collaborator, the poet and historian Robert Conquest. Later, 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