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Author Simon Firth signs copies of his book, ‘Bond in Jamaica’.
Updated 4 hours ago by Janet Silvera - Sunday Gleaner Writer

Where Bond began

WESTERN BUREAU: They came looking for James Bond. Forty devotees of the world’s most famous secret agent descended on Jamaica, chasing 007 through waterfalls and old hotels and into some of the places immortalised on the big screen.

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