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Thrilling Cities Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2013) the use of metaphor andOn November 2nd armed with a sheaf of visas one suitcase and my typewriter, I left humdrum London for the thrilling cities of the world In 1959, Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was commissioned by the Sunday Times to explore fourteen of the worlds most exotic cities. Fleming saw it all with a thriller writers eye. From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in