'Dahl was a real life James Bond'

LONDON: He is best known as an author of chaste children's books but Roald Dahl was a secret service agent with a "whole stable" of women and a license to kill, a la James Bond, claims a new book.The British author slept with countless high society womenwhile gathering intelligence in the US in the 1940s, says Donald Sturcock in hisnew book Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl. Dahl had fought as afighter pilot earlier in the war. He then worked for a secret service networkcalled British Security Coordination (BSC).It was during this timethat he worked with other well known agents such as Ian Fleming.