The Lifeline
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| Author | Phyllis Bottome |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
Publication date | 1946 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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The Lifeline (sometimes written as The Life-Line) is a 1946 thriller novel by the British writer Phyllis Bottome.[1] It has been suggested as a direct influence on Ian Fleming, who had once attended a school run by Bottome, and his later creation of the James Bond stories. Equally the protagonist Mark Chalmers may have been partly based on Fleming himself.[2] It was the only spy novel written by Bottome.[3]
