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Karl Maka ( ___MASK90___ :  ) is a Hong Kong film producer , director , actor and presenter . He was born on 29 February 1944 in Taishan , China . One of his most popular film roles is in the " Aces Go Places " film series (  ), where he acted alongside Sam Hui . Ian Lancaster Fleming ( 28 May 1908  12 August 1964 ) was an ___MASK36___ author , journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels . Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co ., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917 . Educated at Eton , Sandhurst and , briefly , the universities of Munich and Geneva , Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing . Anthony Horowitz , OBE ( born 5 April 1955 ) is an ___MASK36___ novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense . His work for young adult readers includes " The Diamond Brothers " series , the " Alex Rider " series , and " The Power of Five " series ( a . k . a . " The Gatekeepers "). His work for adults includes the novel and play " Mindgame " ( 2001 ), and two Sherlock Holmes novels " The House of Silk " ( 2011 ) and " Moriarty " ( 2014 ). He is the most recent author chosen to write a James Bond novel by the Ian Fleming estate , titled " Trigger Mortis " ( 2015 ). Samuel Hui Koon - kit ( born 6 September 1948 ), usually known as Sam Hui , is a Hong Kong musician , singer , songwriter and actor . He is credited with popularising Cantopop both with the infusion of Western - style music and using popular , street ___MASK16___ jargon in his lyrics writing . Hui is considered by some to be the first major superstar of Cantopop , called the God of Song . Aces Go Places , known as Mad Mission in the United States , is a series of Hong Kong action comedy films that are parodies of the James Bond film series . The films star Sam Hui as King Kong , a master thief and martial arts expert who is aided by his bumbling sidekick , Detective Albert `` Baldy '' Au , portrayed by Karl Maka . The series began in 1982 , with the first two films directed by Eric Tsang . Subsequent films were directed , respectively by Tsui Hark , Ringo Lam and Lau Kar - leung . A sixth film , 97 Aces Go Places was made in 1997 with a different cast . Aces Go Places ,, also known in the United States as Diamondfinger or Mad Mission , is a 1982 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Eric Tsang , and starring Samuel Hui and Karl Maka . Charles Murray " Charlie " Higson ( born 3 July 1958 ) is an ___MASK36___ actor , comedian , author , and former singer . He has also written and produced for television . The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming , who featured him in twelve novels and two short - story collections . Since Fleming ' s death in 1964 , eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelizations : Kingsley Amis , Christopher Wood , John Gardner , Raymond Benson , Sebastian Faulks , Jeffery Deaver , William Boyd and Anthony Horowitz . The latest novel is " Trigger Mortis " by Anthony Horowitz , published in September 2015 . Additionally Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond , and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character , Moneypenny . Sir Kingsley William Amis , CBE ( 16 April 1922  22 October 1995 ) was an ___MASK36___ novelist , poet , critic , and teacher . He wrote more than 20 novels , six volumes of poetry , a memoir , various short stories , radio and television scripts , along with works of social and literary criticism . According to his biographer , Zachary Leader , Amis was " the finest ___MASK36___ comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century ." He is the father of British novelist Martin Amis .