Casino Royale / Ian Fleming; with an introduction by Alan Judd.
Series: (Vintage Classics)Publisher: London : Vintage Books, 2012Description: xix, 228 p. 20 cm001: 14944ISBN: 9780099576853Subject(s): Novels | Espionage | SpyDDC classification: 823 FLEItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | MAIN LIBRARY FICTION | FICTION (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 096225 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
There's no better time to rediscover James Bond.
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.
'Bond is a hero for all time' Jeffrey Deaver
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Library Journal Review
The allure of James Bond was best described by Raymond Chandler, who insisted that 007 is "what every man would like to be and what every woman would like to have between her sheets." Who can argue with that? This month marks the 40th anniversary of the film release of Dr. No, which was the first Bond adventure to make the big screen, and two big coffee-table books are being published to honor the occasion (LJ 10/1/02, p. 96). Shockingly, Fleming's original novels have gone out of print, but Penguin here reproduces a trio of the British secret agent's early outings, released in 1952, 1958, and 1959, respectively, sporting stylish cover art. These stories were racy for the nifty Fifties but are quite tame by today's standards. Still, they can be fun. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.There are no comments on this title.
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