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Back in London, Fleming had his manuscript—which he described as his "dreadful oafish opus"—retyped by Joan Howe, his red-haired secretary at The Times on whom the character Miss Moneypenny was partly based. At first they were unenthusiastic, but were persuaded to publish on the recommendation of Fleming's older brother, Peter, an established travel writer whose books they managed. In 1948 Charteris gave birth to Fleming's daughter, Mary, who was stillborn; Charteris and Fleming became engaged shortly in 1951. His friend Ivar Bryce helped find a plot of land in Saint Mary Parish where, in 1945, Fleming had a house built, which he named Goldeneye. Fleming mentioned both his wartime Operation Goldeneye and Carson McCullers' 1941 novel Reflections in a Golden Eye. Desperate to recover the money, Le Chiffre kidnaps Lynd and tortures Bond, threatening to kill them both if he does not get the money back.
Fleming explained to the ornithologist's wife "that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born". Although Fleming provided limited information regarding dates within his novels, two writers have identified different timelines based on events and situations within the novel series as a whole. Griswold noted that in Goldfinger, Fleming identifies that the events took place in 1951. Ian Fleming, born in 1908, was a son of Valentine Fleming, a wealthy banker and MP who died in action on the Western Front in May 1917. Fleming joined the organisation full-time in August 1939, with the codename "17F", and worked for them throughout the war. When he is released from hospital they spend time together at a quiet guest house and eventually become lovers. She leaves behind a note explaining that she had been working as an unwilling double agent for the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Armed with newfound resolve, Bond tracks down Mr.