"Casino Royale" is Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel. It would eventually pave the way for eleven other novels by Fleming himself, in addition to two short story collections, followed by many "continuation" Bond novels by other authors. The story entails James Bond, Special Agent 007 of the 'Secret Service', travelling to the casino at Royale-Les-Eaux in order to bankrupt a...
Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1953. --128 p. British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to play in a high-stakes baccarat game in an effort to take down Le Chiffre, a financier for the villainous SMERSH. Things get more complex when Bond is partnered with Vesper Lynd, a beautiful and smart MI6 employee with a dark secret. In the first of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels,...
"Diamonds Are Forever" is the fourth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on March 26, 1956. Two months after the Moonraker incident, British Secret Service agent James Bond is sent on an assignment by his superior, M. Acting on information received from Special Branch, M tasks Bond with infiltrating a smuggling ring, which is...
Pan Books Ltd., 1956. --157 p. Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, inspired by a Sunday Times article on diamond smuggling. The story centres on Bond's investigation of a diamond-smuggling ring originating in the...
Język: oryginalny: angielski. Kategoria: Literatura piękna. Gatunek: thriller/sensacja/kryminał. Forma: powieść. OPIS: Ian Lancaster Fleming (ur. 28 maja 1908 w Londynie, zm. 12 sierpnia 1964 w Canterbury) - pisarz angielski, najbardziej znany z serii kryminałów z Jamesem Bondem w roli głównej, a także w mniejszym stopniu z serii opowieści dla dzieci Chitty Chitty Bang Bang....
"Dr. No" is Ian Fleming's sixth James Bond novel, originally published on the 31 March 1958. This novel was influenced by Fleming's having read Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu stories at Eton College. The previous novel, "From Russia, with Love", ended in a cliffhanger in which Bond was poisoned by SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb and collapsed. In Dr. No, M learns from a MI6 neurologist that...
Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1958. --165 p. Ian Fleming wrote his sixth James Bond novel in early 1957 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. The novel centres on Bond's investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of two fellow MI6 operatives. He establishes that they had been investigating Doctor No, a Chinese operator of a guano mine on the fictional Caribbean island of Crab Key....
"For Your Eyes Only" is a collection of James Bond short stories by Ian Fleming. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of pace for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond stories only as full-length novels. The collection contains five short stories: "From a View to a Kill", "For Your Eyes Only", "Quantum of Solace", "Risico", and...
Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1960. --134 p. The destruction of a Russian hide-out at SHAPE headquarters near Paris; the planned assassination of a Cuban thug in America; the tracking of a heroin ring from Rome to Venice and beyond; sudden and ghastly death in the Seychelles islands and, in between, a story of love and hate in Bermuda. These are five episodes in a short span of tough...
Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1957. --189 p. SMERSH, the Soviet counterintelligence agency, plans to commit a grand act of terrorism in the intelligence field. For this, it targets British secret service agent James Bond. Due in part to his role in the defeat of Le Chiffre, Mr. Big and Hugo Drax, Bond has been listed as an enemy of the Soviet state and a "death warrant" has been issued...
"From Russia, with Love", published in 1957, is the fifth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming and is considered one of the best in the series, as voted by its readers. "From Russia, with Love" differs from Fleming's previous Bond novels in that the first third of the novel revolves around SMERSH executioner Red Grant, as well as the organization, SMERSH itself. (Bond...
"Goldfinger" is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. It was first published by the British publishers Jonathan Cape on 23 March 1959. Whilst changing planes in Miami after closing down a Mexican heroin smuggling operation, Bond is asked by Junius Du Pont, a rich American businessman (whom he briefly met and gambled with in Casino Royale), to watch Auric...
Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1959. --327 p. Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his cash in gold bars and his women dressed only in gold paint. After smuggling tons of gold out of Britain into secret vaults in Switzerland, this powerful villain is planning the biggest and most daring heist in history — robbing all the gold in...
"Live and Let Die" is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954, where it quickly sold out. British Secret Service agent James Bond is sent by his superior, M, to New York City to investigate "Mr. Big", real name Buonapart Ignace Gallia, an agent of SMERSH and an underworld voodoo leader who is suspected of...
Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1954. --163 p. James Bond #2. Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr Big — master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. James Bond has no time for superstition — he knows that this criminal heavy hitter is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of...
"Moonraker" is the third novel by British author Ian Fleming featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. The book was first published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955, bearing a cover based on Fleming's own concept. British Secret Service agent James Bond is asked by his superior, M, to join him for the evening at M's club, Blades, where one of...
Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1955. --171 p. Moonraker, Britain's new ICBM-based national defense system, is ready for testing, but something's not quite right. At M's request, Bond begins his investigation with Sir Hugo Drax, the leading card shark at M's club, who is also the head of the Moonraker project. But once Bond delves deeper into the goings-on at the Moonraker base, he...
"Octopussy and The Living Daylights" (sometimes published as Octopussy) is the fourteenth and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming. It is a collection of short stories published posthumously in the United Kingdom and the United States by Glidrose Productions, in 1966. It contains three short stories: "Octopussy", "The Living Daylights" and "The Property of a Lady"....
Signet Books., 1966. --80 p. Four bits of shrapnel from the magnum opus of Mr. Fleming. The Last Great Adventures of James Bond 007: Octopussy: Bond's quarry is a rather odd Englishman, the very proper Major Dexter Smythe. Smythe is a retired officer of the Royal Marines. He is a man of no visible wealth, yet he lives in luxurious idleness. His pet diversion--indeed his...
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" is the eleventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. First published by Jonathan Cape on 1 April 1963. For more than a year, James Bond, British secret agent 007, has been trailing the private criminal organization SPECTRE and its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in 'Operation Bedlam'. This pursuit is partially described in "The Spy Who Loved...
Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1963. -- 196 p. When Bond rescues a beautiful, reckless girl from self-destruction, he finds himself with a lead on one of the most dangerous men in the world — Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. In the snow-bound fastness of his Alpine base, Blofeld is conducting research that could threaten the safety of the world. To thwart the evil genius, Bond...
Jonathan Cape, 1957. --83 p. A major campaign against the greatest smuggling racket in the world — the smuggling of diamonds from Africa, to the tune of some ten million pounds a year — has just been completed. It took three years. Paris has involved and Antwerp, Beirut, Freetown, Johannesburg — and Moscow. How this underground battle was waged is the greatest spy story since...
"The Man with the Golden Gun" is the thirteenth novel written by Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was published posthumously in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape, in 1965. A year after James Bond's final confrontation with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, while on a mission in Japan, he is declared missing and presumed dead. Then, a man...
New American Library., 1965. — 127 p. — (James Bond #13). James Bond — arch-enemy of SMERSH, subjugator of the master fiends Goldfinger and Dr. No, has been brainwashed by Soviet captors into becoming the tool of Russia’s K.G.B. Secret agent 007 is deliberately setting out to perpetrate an act of treachery against the British Secret Service. Thus begins Ian Fleming’s last Bond...
"The Spy Who Loved Me" is the tenth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series first published by Jonathan Cape on 16 April 1962. It is the shortest and most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels as well as a clear departure from previous Bond novels in that the story is told in the first person by the young woman Vivienne Michel. The central character and narrator of The Spy Who...
Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1962. — 109 p. Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers — the perverse Sol Horror and the deadly Sluggsy Morant. When a coolly...
Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1961. - 165 p. The story centers on the theft of two atomic bombs by the crime syndicate SPECTRE and the subsequent attempted blackmail of the Western powers for their return. James Bond, Secret Service operative 007, travels to the Bahamas to work with his friend Felix Leiter, seconded back into the CIA for the investigation. When a stranger arrives in the...
"You Only Live Twice" is the twelfth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. First published by Jonathan Cape on March 16, 1964, it holds the distinction of being the last novel written by Fleming to be published in his lifetime. You only live twice: Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face. — You Only Live Twice, epigraph James Bond, his career fading...
Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1964. --161 p. The story starts eight months after the murder of Tracy Bond, which occurred at the end of the previous novel, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. James Bond is drinking and gambling heavily and making mistakes on his assignments when, as a last resort, he is sent to Japan on a semi-diplomatic mission. Whilst there he is challenged by the Head of...
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