- British, Fiction, Fiction in English, Intelligence officers
Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome, chillingly ruthless and licensed to kill. This, the first of Ian Fleming's tales of secret agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply "le Chiffre" -- by ruining him at the Baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to "retire" him.
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Classical in form, grave, resolved and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Ian Fleming
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 189
- Publisher
- General Books, HarperCollins Publishers, Arcturus
- Editions
- 164
- Language
- German, heb, Italian, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780425081624
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“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.”
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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