Synopsis
JAMES BOND GOES HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH SMERSH IN A BID TO SECURE A KEY PIECE OF SOVIET INTELLIGENCE
SMERSH, the Russian intelligence unit whose acronym stands for “Death to Spies,” is hell-bent on destroying Special Agent James Bond.
His death would deal a catastrophic hammer blow to the heart of the British Secret Service.
The lure? A beautiful woman who needs 007’s help. Tatiana Romanova is a Russian spy who promises to hand over the prized Spektor decoding machine if Bond aids her defection. Bond suspects a trap but can’t resist the opportunity to give the British the upper hand in a chilling new front of the Cold War.
So begins a deadly game of bluff and double bluff, with Bond a marked man as he enters the murky world of Balkan espionage.
Release date: October 16, 2012
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Print pages: 151
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How wrong I was.
OK, Le Carre is the gritty spy realist with George Smiley’s hangups and his confused patriotism, but Fleming knows exactly who the enemy is and tells it how it is.
Also his first-hand knowledge of the glamour of gambling and international travel in the fifties and sixties lends his own brand of realism. This book is of its time.
Fleming considered this to be his best book. I agree. Yet it was to be his last James Bond novel - his books had failed to s...
How wrong I was.
OK, Le Carre is the gritty spy realist with George Smiley’s hangups and his confused patriotism, but Fleming knows exactly who the enemy is and tells it how it is.
Also his first-hand knowledge of the glamour of gambling and international travel in the fifties and sixties lends his own brand of realism. This book is of its time.
Fleming considered this to be his best book. I agree. Yet it was to be his last James Bond novel - his books had failed to sell in the United States. Then John F Kennedy let slip that he had enjoyed some of his novels, and his fame took off.
He went on to write Dr No, Goldfinger etc, and the rest is history.
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