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| Title | : | From Russia With Love (James Bond (Original Series) #5) |
| Author | : | Ian Fleming |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 259 pages |
| Published | : | 2002 by Penguin Books (first published 1957) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Spy Thriller. Espionage |
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Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel.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.
SMERSH stands for ‘Death to Spies’ and there’s no secret agent they’d like to disgrace and destroy more than 007, James Bond. But ensnaring the British Secret Service’s most lethal operative will require a lure so tempting even he can’t resist. Enter Tatiana Romanova, a ravishing Russian spy whose ‘defection’ springs a trap designed with clockwork precision.
Her mission: seduce Bond, then flee to the West on the Orient Express. Waiting in the shadows are two of Ian Fleming’s most vividly drawn villains: Red Grant, SMERSH’s deadliest assassin, and the sinister operations chief Rosa Klebb-five feet four inches of pure killing power.
Bursting with action and intrigue, From Russia with Love is one of the best-loved books in the Bond canon-an instant classic that set the standard for sophisticated literary spycraft for decades to come.
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| Original Title: | From Russia, with Love |
| ISBN: | 0142002070 (ISBN13: 9780142002070) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | James Bond (Original Series) #5, James Bond - Extended |
| Series: | #5, James Bond (Original Series) #5 , more |
| Characters: | James Bond |
| Setting: | Istanbul(Turkey) |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 27908 Users | 1143 ReviewsNotice Epithetical Books From Russia With Love (James Bond (Original Series) #5)
Rating: 4.5* of fiveIt's the 1963 movie with Sean Connery that I'm rating. I tried reading Casino Royale recently, and found it dated and even more sexist and racist than I was expecting. I'll stick to the movies. Connery's nice to look at. The gadgets are hilarious, and so is Q. The theme songs are great.I think I was about seven. We had a copy of this book lying around the house, and Mom told me not to read it, it was totally dumb, but of course I did anyway. I thought it was kind of cool, especially how they had the grandmaster plan the honey trap. Really I wanted it to work, and I was a bit annoyed that Bond got away again.That weekend, Mom had invited a lesbian couple over for dinner (we were living in the Bay Area at the time). I spent the whole evening staring at their shoes. In the end,
(A-) 83% | Very GoodNotes: James Bond fights the 'soft life' but ironically becomes soft: ditching sense to reattain love, adventure and friendship.
After two novels bashing the USA as vulgar and crass and corrupt, the Brit Fleming now turns to Russia, in one of Flemings literary contributions to the Cold War, with a focus on the Russian anti-spy organization, SMERSH, and a psychopathic serial killer straight out of Fleming's probable reading of Jim Thompson's The Killer in Me. Smersh's mission for no obvious reason than to annoy the CIA is to kill Bond, who is only talked about in the first third of the book. I like that. We get a clearer
From the Telegraph's Andrew Martin 06 Aug 2014:"Scientists at the University of London have concluded that the key to happiness is having low expectations. 'They mined this conclusion from an experiment in which people gambled with small sums of money. The subjects were happiest when they won, not having expected to win.'"This quote pretty much captures my feelings about Ian Fleming. Now five books deep into James Bond, I've just figured out how to enjoy these books. Yes, you guessed it. Low
An oh-so-innocent Russian cipher clerk is recruited into a SMERSH plot, being told that she would feed England false information after "defecting". Little does she know that the actual plan is to humiliate MI6 by staging a murder-suicide between her and her escort, James Bond.This is technically a review of the Simon Vance audiobook, but it's an unabridged reading.The Good: Action scenes: Fleming writes them so well. That penultimate scene with the top SMERSH killer is my favorite scene in the
This really needs to be remade. To help move things along, I've mocked up a poster and a few seconds of dialogue for the teaser trailer...
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