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Book Review: From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
5 Stars , Fiction , Latest Posts / March 2, 2016

About: From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming is the 5th novel in the series featuring English spy James Bond, 007. The book was published in 1957 and is considered one of the quintessential Cold War novels. 253 pages Publisher: Fine Communications Language: English ISBN-10: 1567310532 My rat­ing for From Russia With Love— 5 Buy From Russia With Love from Amazon.com* Books by Ian Fleming* Thoughts: From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming is considered the best in the series and, after reading it, I have to agree. While the book certainly offends modern sensibilities, it does offer a great story and a nail biting ending. The story revolves around the Soviets trying to humiliate the British Secret Service by killing their best agent, James Bond, in an embarrassing manner and hence lower morale. The plot was implausible back then, but even more now when people are not embarrassed at all anymore and even post their stupidity online for the ages. Bond is not a very sophisticated spy, sure he’s good at what he does but he rolls along with the thin plot to assassinate him, missing noticeable clues and falling into obvious traps, frankly it’s a wonder he’s…

Cool Cover: Thunderball by Ian Fleming
Latest Posts / October 30, 2013

Thun­der­ball by Ian Flem­ing is the ninth Bond novel, is the first of the “Blofeld Tril­ogy” (con­tin­ued with On Her Majesty’s Secret Ser­vice and con­cluded with You Only Live Twice inter­cepted by The Spy Who Loved me). See my review here

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