James Fleming (author)

James R. Fleming (Born 26 February 1944, London), is an English author who is the son of travel writer Peter Fleming, nephew to spy author Ian Fleming.

He lived for the last twenty years in the remote North of Scotland in order to concentrate on his writing. This is where his Charlie Doig Russian series gestated. Well respected in the nearest town to his estate he became an honorary "Wicker" and fully immersed himself in community life.

He has written two historical novels, the first in 2000 being The Temple of Optimism, and then in 2003 Thomas Gage. In 2006 Fleming wrote the first of three thrillers, Cold Blood, White Blood and Rising Blood, that feature the Scottish/Russian character "Charlie Doig".