From Russia with Love, Dr No and Goldfinger (Omnibus Edition) (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Christopher Hitchens (Introduction), Christopher Hitchens (Introduction), Ian Fleming (Author)

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  2002

  $6.05

  The arrival of James Bond in Modern Classics at last acknowledges Fleming's remarkable place in British fiction. The creator of an entire genre and the inventor of the most widely recognised figure in British literature since Sherlock Holmes, Fleming has a presence and flair now denied to most other writers of the 1950s. These three novels show Fleming at his peak - it would be hard to argue whether Rosa Klebb , Dr No or Goldfinger have greater grandeur or repulsiveness - with three plots ofderanged implausibility and many of the dazzling set-pieces that made the early films so memorable.

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  Paperback
  2006

  $4.86

  Every major foreign government has a file on James Bond, British secret agent. Now, Russia's deadly SMERSH organization has targeted him for elimination - they have the perfect bait in ravishing agent, Tatiana Romanova. Her mission is to lure Bond to Istanbul and seduce him while her superiors handle the rest. But, when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double cross ensues - with Bond both the stakes and the prize...