A study of the adventurer's wartime capers ... filled with details you couldn't invent. 4/5 stars.

The Daily Telegraph

[Ogden] has researched his subject assiduously. A good part of the book consists of official documents, memoranda and reports written by Fleming himself. These will be of great interest and value to other researchers and historians ... This is a fascinating book.

Literary Review

A punctilious and notably well-researched account of Fleming's military career.

New Criterion

This book has some fascinating parts … A good read.

Sorted Magazine

This is not a conventional biography, and a bit like Peter Fleming's extraordinarily fertile mind, it wends its way through an oblique and complex subject in a fascinating way ... We get real insights into the problems and challenges; this is an historian's book not a journalist's.

The Guards Magazine

Peter Fleming has been best remembered as an adventurous travel writer and brother of author Ian Fleming, making him an uncle of James Bond. In this readable account we are introduced properly to Peter Fleming, the wartime intelligence officer and master of the arts of deception against the Japanese Army in South East Asia. Alan Ogden's well researched biography reveals a little understood period in the life of an exceptional human being.

Professor Sir David Omand, former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator