Andrew Cook
speaker
151 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 May
Andrew Cook’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was almost certainly a murderer several times over.
And that wasn't in the field of combat or espionage.
That was killing his first wife's husband.
There was another death.
of a flatmate in St.
Petersburg, I think in 1911, which enabled Riley to get his hands on this guy's money.
He's a confidence man, he is an espionage agent, but he is just 110% a fascinating and magnetic character.
Without a shadow of a doubt, his story found its way into Ian Fleming's head, and it never left Ian Fleming's head.
And I think it inspired Fleming to create James Bond.
And Fleming then went forward and hoovered up all kinds of stories and characteristics to graft into the James Bond character.
But I think, yes, that's unintentionally Sidney Riley's biggest epitaph that he more than possibly lit the flames within Ian Fleming's very, very creative mind that led to the creation of James Bond.
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