Casino Royale
By Ian Fleming
(Penguin (Non-Classics), Paperback, 9780142002025, 192pp.)
Publication Date: August 2002
Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc (July 2006), Compact Disc (October 2003), Audio Cassette - Abridged (April 2001), Hardcover (July 1994), Mass Market Paperback (July 1987), Mass Market Paperback (May 1985), Mass Market Paperback (April 1983), Mass Market Paperback (May 1982)
Categories: Espionage/Intrigue
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In the first of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, 007 declares war on Le Chiffre, French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH.
The battle begins with a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat, gains momentum during Bond's fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy, and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist. For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, and extraordinary danger, nothing can beat James Bond in his inaugural adventure.
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.
Mr. Fleming died August 12, 1964, at the age of fifty-six.
Bond is what every man would like to be and what every woman would like to have between her sheets. (Raymond Chandler)
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