"In 1946, Ian Fleming purchased 15 acres overlooking Oracabessa Bay. He named his estate Goldeneye, after a wartime operation he worked. Over the next two decades, he wrote all of his spy novels there—and found inspiration for many of them in the lush surroundings: 'Dr. No,' 'Live and Let Die,' 'The Man With the Golden Gun' and 'Octopussy' were all partly set in Jamaica. In the 1970s, Fleming sold the property to Bob Marley, who soon after sold it to Island Records founder Chris Blackwell. Blackwell then turned Goldeneye into a five-star resort." - Elise Taylor
