![]() ![]() Showing us his vulnerable underbelly and.Īll women want to be swept off their feet. ![]() ![]() And I guess by extension, I thought Ian Fleming was getting softer. His little heart was growing just like The Grinch as he and Tiffany Case sauntered off into the sunset. In the last book, Diamonds Are Forever, it seemed as though Bond was going soft. 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.īursting 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. Her mission: seduce Bond, then flee to the West on the Orient Express. Enter Tatiana Romanova, a ravishing Russian spy whose “defection” springs a trap designed with clockwork precision. But ensnaring the British Secret Service’s most lethal operative will require a lure so tempting even he can’t resist. SMERSH stands for “Death to Spies” and there’s no secret agent they’d like to disgrace and destroy more than 007, James Bond. Kennedy named one of his favorite books of all time. 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. ![]()
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