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Ian Fleming - Casino Royale (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
James Bond #1. Published in 1953.
Escape with the nation's favourite spy in the addictive first novel in Ian Fleming's classic series.
Le Chiffre is a businessman with expensive tastes, and SMERSH's chief operative in France. But as his dissolute lifestyle threatens to ruin him, his only hope is to risk his paymasters' money at the card table.
James Bond, the finest gambler in the service, has a deadly new mission: to outplay Le Chiffre and shatter his Soviet cell.
Amidst the opulence of Casino Royale, the two men face each other for a game with the highest stakes of all.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
- Category : Fiction - Classics
- Published : 1953 (This Edition 2012 - Vintage)
- ISBN : 9780099593348
- SKU : B003206
- PPC : LL300gm
- RRP : £7.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Ian Fleming has discovered the secret of narrative art . . . the reader has to go on reading." - John Betjeman.
"A superb gambling scene, a torture scene which still haunts me, a beautiful girl." - Raymond Chandler.
"Mr Fleming’s first novel is an extremely engaging affair . . . the especial charm of the book is the high poetry with which he invests the green blaize lagoons of the casino tables . . . Mr Fleming has produced a book that is both exciting and extremely civilized." - Times Literary Supplement.
"Casino Royale is lively, most ingenious in detail, on the surface as tough as they are made and charmingly well-bred beneath." - Spectator.
"One of the most original spy thrillers that has ever tickled a jaded palate." - Empire News.
'Bond is a hero for all time' - Jeffrey Deaver.
" . . . anyone who plunges into the book will be equally pleased by its perfectly pulp, almost noir style of storytelling." - Supposedly Fun.
The Author
Ian Fleming (1908-1964), creator of the world's best-known secret agent, is the author of fourteen James Bond books. Born in London in 1908 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he became the Reuters Moscow correspondent in 1929. In the spring of 1939, Fleming went back to Moscow as a special correspondent for the London Times.
In June of that same year, he joined Naval Intelligence and served throughout World War II, finally earning the rank of Commander, RNVSR (Sp.). Much of the James Bond material was drawn directly from Fleming's experiences as an intelligence officer. Later, Fleming became a consultant on foreign affairs for the London Sunday Times , by which time he had become far better known as the creator of James Bond.
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