# | Year | 1st Read | Title | Author(s) | My Rating | |
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1 | 1953 | 2017 | (1) Casino Royale Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
| From epubbooks.com:
In the first of Fleming’s James Bond novels, 007 declares war on Le Chiffre, French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH. The battle begins with a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat, gains momentum during Bond’s fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy, and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist. For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, and extraordinary danger, nothing can beat James Bond in his inaugural adventure. | |
2 | 1954 | 2017 | (2) Live and Let Die Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
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Her hair was black and fell to her shoulders. She had high cheekbones and a sensual mouth, and wore a dress of white silk. Her eyes were blue, alight and disdainful, but, as they gazed into his with a touch of humour, Bond realized that they contained a message. Solitaire watched his eyes on her and nonchalantly drew her forearms together so that the valley between her breasts deepened. The message was unmistakable. Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr Big - master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. James Bond has no time for superstition - he knows that this criminal heavy hitter is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realized that Big is one of the most dangerous men that he has ever faced. And no-one, not even the mysterious Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end… | |
3 | 1955 | 2017 | (3) Moonraker Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
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Another adventure from James Bond: 007. Britain’s new ICBM-based national defense system, is ready for testing, but something’s not quite right. At M’s request, Bond begins his investigation with Sir Hugo Drax, the leading card shark at M’s club, who is also the head of the Moonraker project. But once Bond delves deeper into the goings-on at the Moonraker base, he discovers that both the project and its leader are something other than they appear to be. | |
4 | 1956 | 2017 | (4) Diamonds Are Forever Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
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The Spangled Mob are no ordinary American gangsters. They prey on the addictions of the wealthy and treat the poor as collateral. Their ruthless desire for power and fierce brotherly loyalty make them deadly and invincible. James Bond must go deep undercover in his urgent new assignment: to destroy their millionaire masterminds, Jack and Seraffimo Spang. But the Spangs’ cruel influence is everywhere, from dusty African diamond mines to the frenzied gambling dens of Las Vegas. Can Bond find his men before his cover is blown? | |
5 | 1957 | 2017 | (5) From Russia, with Love Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
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SMERSH, the Soviet counterintelligence agency, plans to commit a grand act of terrorism in the intelligence field. For this, it targets British secret service agent James Bond. Due in part to his role in the defeat of Le Chiffre, Mr. Big and Hugo Drax, Bond has been listed as an enemy of the Soviet state and a “death warrant” has been issued for him. His death is planned to precipitate a major sex scandal, which will run through the world press for months and leave his and his service’s reputation in tatters. Bond’s killer is to be SMERSH executioner Red Grant, a psychopath whose homicidal urges coincide with the full moon. Kronsteen, SMERSH’s chess-playing master planner, and Colonel Rosa Klebb, head of Operations and Executions, devise the operation. They persuade an attractive young cipher clerk, Corporal Tatiana Romanova, to falsely defect from her post in Istanbul, claiming to have fallen in love with Bond after seeing his file photograph. | |
6 | 1958 | 2018 | (6) Doctor No Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
| JAMES BOND battles a power mad maniac on a CARIBBEAN ISLAND OF DEATH...
Ace undercover agent James Bond goes to the Caribbean to find out why a secret service team has mysteriously vanished. There on an exotic tropical island he meets a beautiful nature girl and discovers the hideout of Doctor No, a six-foot-six madman with a fantastic secret, a mania for torture, and a list to kill.
For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, extraordinary danger, read IAN FLEMING
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CASINO ROYALE LIVE AND LET DIE GOLDFINGER FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE MOONRAKER FOR YOUR EYES ONLY DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
IAN FLEMING creator of the world's best-known secret agent, was consultant on foreign affairs to the London Sunday Times. In all, he wrote thirteen James Bond novels. The twelfth, You Only Live Twice, is published in hardcover by New American Library; the thirteenth, The Man with the Golden Gun, will be published in the spring of 1965. Mr. Fleming died August 12, 1964, at the age of fifty-six.
PUBLISHED BY THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY | |
7 | 1959 | 2018 | (7) Goldfinger Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
| From ebookspub.com:
Goldfinger, the man who loved gold, said, ‘Mr Bond, it was a most evil day for you when you first crossed my path. If you had then found an oracle to consult, the oracle would have said to you, "Mr Bond, keep away from Mr Auric Goldfinger. He is a most powerful man. If Mr Goldfinger wished to crush you, he would only have to turn over in his sleep to do so."' With the lazy precision of Fate, this, Ian Fleming’s longest narrative of secret service adventure, brings James Bond to grips with the most powerful criminal the world has ever known–Goldfinger, the man who had planned the ‘Crime de la Crime’. Le Chiffre, Mr Big, Sir Hugo Drax, Jack Spang, Rosa Klebb, Doctor No–and now, the seventh adversary, a Goliath of crime - GOLDFINGER! | |
8 | 1960 | 2018 | (8) For Your Eyes Only Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
| From epubbooks.com:
Sudden emergencies and beautiful girls who aren't quite what they seem and are the stock-in-trade of James Bond. And when 007 is on the case there’s only one thing you can be sure of - the result will be thrilling. And whether he’s dealing with the assassination of a Cuban thug in America, the destruction of an international heroin ring, or sudden death in the Seychelles, Bond gets the job done. In his own suave and unmistakable style. | |
9 | 1961 | 2018 | (9) Thunderball | Ian Fleming | | |
10 | 1962 | 2018 | (10) The Spy Who Loved Me Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
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Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers - the perverse Sol Horror and the deadly Sluggsy Morant. When a coolly charismatic Englishman turns up, Viv, in terrible danger, is not just hopeful, but fascinated. Because he is James Bond, 007; the man she hopes will save her, the spy she hopes will love her. | |
11 | 1963 | 2019 | (11) On Her Majesty's Secret Service Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
| For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, extraordinary danger, read IAN FLEMING'S JAMES BOND THRILLERS
CASINO ROYALE DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER DOCTOR NO FOR YOUR EYES ONLY FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE GOLDFINGER LIVE AND LET DIE MOONRAKER ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE THE SPY WHO LOVED ME THUNDERBALL YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE and his adventure charged visit to THRILLING CITIES
IAN FLEMING creator of the world's best-known secret agent, was consultant on foreign affairs to the London Sunday Times. In all, he wrote thirteen James Bond novels. The thirteenth, The Man with the Golden Gun, is published in hardcover by New American Library. Mr. Fleming died August 12, 1964, at the age of fifty-six.
PUBLISHED BY THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY | |
12 | 1964 | 2019 | (12) You Only Live Twice Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
| From epubbooks.com:
The Castle of Death shelters a poisoned garden, curated by a criminal mastermind and set atop a rocky Japanese island. Bond is shattered by the murder of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld but M. gives him one last chance. To save his job, James Bond needs to infiltrate and destroy the Castle of Death in exchange for top-secret Japanese intelligence, 007 must learn the skills of ninja warriors and face his ultimate enemy in a battle to the death. | |
13 | 1965 | 2019 | (13) The Man with the Golden Gun | Ian Fleming | | |
14 | 1965 | 2015 | (14) Octopussy and The Living Daylights Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
| The locales are Flemingly sinister: a paradise in he British West Indies, the border territory between East and West Berlin, and a auction room at Sotheby & Co., London
THE ACTION IS ELECTRIC WITH TENSION. BOND IS DEVESTATINGLY DARING AND DEADLY-DEADLY. HE'S THE ONE AND ONLY 007... THE INIMITABLE SECRET AGENT WHO KEPT THE WORLD IN WILLING BONDAGE FOR OVER A DECADE.
"OCTOPUSSY IS A BRILLIANT GEM" - Publisher's Weekly
"Fine Flemming... has a fascination that will linger - charmingly chill." - John O'Neill, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Vintage Fleming" - Omaha World Herald
"Superb examples of James Bond at his best" - The Courant Magazine
Here they are - THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURES OF AGENT 007... Octopussy, The Living Daylights, The Property of a Lady (the latter published here for the first time in book form)
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