Prepared possibly to read about an Ian Fleming character (5)
I believe the answer is:
armed
'prepared' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'about an ian fleming character' is the wordplay.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'an ian fleming' becomes 'ared' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'character' becomes 'm'.
'ared' placed around 'm' is 'ARMED'.
'possibly to read' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for armed that I've seen before include "Given weapons" , "Having guns" , "with Browning?" , "Provided with weapons" , "unlike the Venus of Milo" .)