Jeremy Duns (born 10 December 1973)[1] is a British author of spy fiction and the history of espionage.
An admirer of Ian Fleming and James Bond, Duns unearthed pages of a lost Bond novel, Per Fine Ounce, early screenplays for Casino Royale[5][6] and The Diamond Smugglers,[7] and researched a wartime MI6 operation that inspired the opening of the film Goldfinger.
[8] Duns writes spy fiction featuring an MI6 agent called Paul Dark, set during the Cold War.
[22][23] In 2012, he discovered that the novelist R. J. Ellory had written positive reviews of his own books[24] while responding negatively to rivals, on the Amazon website through the use of sockpuppets.
[26] Duns has also examined methods used by British author Stephen Leather since his admission in 2012 that he uses a network of sockpuppets to promote his own work online.