![]() ![]() ![]() It begins with a dossier read by head of the Secret Service “M,” on one Soviet agent, Monsieur La Chiffre, who “stole from the till” and lost on bad investments over time and with a bounty on his head he is in need of millions of francs to save his own life. But there are enough twists and turns that anyone who has only seen the Bond films will find new elements to enjoy in the original novel. The James Bond novels remain in the top 25 best selling novel series of all time.Īs theatrical adaptations go, Casino Royale is very faithful to the original novel. The character of Bond was a compilation of several spies Fleming had met while in the military.Ĭan the Bond novels hold up after 60 years? Even considering Bond’s 1950s era womanizing that has been to one extent or the other in 24 Bond films (the original comedy plus the 23 films including the forthcoming Skyfall) the Bond of 1952 is as familiar as the current Bond. As the 60th anniversary of the birth of James Bond approaches, what better time to read the twelve novels and nine short stories written by Fleming? Casino Royale was a collection of Fleming’s ideas and experiences, and the result of a long-time desire of Fleming to write his own spy novel. In March 1952, on his estate called Goldeneye in Oracabessa, northeast Jamaica, ex-British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming finished his first spy novel, penned over the past two months.
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