- British, Fiction, Fiction in English, Intelligence officers
James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller, and the novel that President John F. Kennedy named one of his favourite books of all time.
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Classical in form, resolved, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ian Fleming
- First published
- April 4, 2002
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- London: Pan Books, 1959., Fen, Paperback Nova Audio Books
- Editions
- 150
- Language
- und, vie, French, cze
- ISBN
- 9780224602020
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“Der nackte Mann, der ausgestreckt neben dem Swimmingpool auf dem Bauch lag, hätte ebenso gut tot sein können.”
A British author and journalist. **Ian Fleming**, creator of the world's best-known secret agent, was consultant on foreign affairs to the *London Sunday Times*. In all, he wrote thirteen *James Bond* novels. The twelfth, *You Only Live Twice*, is published in hardcover by New American Library; the thirteenth, *The Man with the Golden Gun*, was published in the spring of 1965. Mr. Fleming died August 12, 1964, at the age of fifty-six.
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