Would highly recommend for anyone yet to give it a read. I haven't read any other biographical works on Fleming so can't really compare.
Great insight into Fleming's personal doings, foibles, and other adventures in colonial Jamaica's high society. Perhaps most interestingly the book charts Jamaica's transition from colony to independent state - an ever present and changing landscape for Fleming & co. as he makes his annual two-month pilgrimage to hammer out a Bond book.
There's a fairly constant air of melancholy around Fleming, perhaps a discontentment in that not everything is as good as it could've been. It seems to just barely be abated by the affairs, cigarettes, and copious alcohol consumption. There's a tragedy to it all (most notably his son's suicide a decade after Fleming's own death) but Fleming nevertheless seemed intent on going out on his own terms, not using his days in an attempt to prolong them, as was Bond's own philosophy.
Anyone else read it?