Eighteen of the best books for the Olympics

At the Guardian, John Dugdale assembled eighteen literary accompaniments to the key Olympic sports, including:Taekwondo: Ian Fleming

Oddjob in Goldfinger is taekwondo-trained, though his tactic of choice is hurling his steel-brimmed hat. Other fictional martial arts exponents tend to appear in comics, but the eponymous hero of John Grisham’s Rogue Lawyer moonlights as a manager of MMA