- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Penguin; paperback / softback edition (26 Oct 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141028343
- ISBN-13: 978-0141028347
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 135,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For James Bond, British secret agent 007, international espionage can be a dirty business. Whether it is tracking down a wayward Major who has taken a deadly secret with him to the Caribbean; identifying a top Russian agent secretly bidding for a Faberge egg in a Sotheby’s auction room; or ruthlessly gunning down an unlikely assassin in sniper’s alley between East and West Berlin, Bond always closes the case – with extreme prejudice.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book contains 3 Bond Short Stories and an article Fleming wrote.
The first is where Bond confronts an ex-secret service Major over what happened at the end of the war and how he acquired his fortune. It also gives a little human background to Bond before the war and as an adolescent.
The second is Property of a Lady which describes the Russians paying off one of their under-cover operatives with a Faberge Jewel. This is the weakest of the stories. It is unnecessarily negative about women who are not beautiful - to the point of being misogynistic and the story is nonsense. Why risk a section chief to bump up the sale price? It is just silly.
The third and the best is the Living Daylights where Bond has to shoot a sniper who is going to kill an important defecting agent. But again Fleming shows Bond to care more about chasing skirt than his job. This is why it gets four stars and not three.
Finally there is a short article about New York which Fleming wrote to try and appease New Yorkers after his own scathing attack after visiting the city, but it is hardly an endorsement and attacks the US with typical public school snobbery for which Fleming is renowned.
The first is where Bond confronts an ex-secret service Major over what happened at the end of the war and how he acquired his fortune. It also gives a little human background to Bond before the war and as an adolescent.
The second is Property of a Lady which describes the Russians paying off one of their under-cover operatives with a Faberge Jewel. This is the weakest of the stories. It is unnecessarily negative about women who are not beautiful - to the point of being misogynistic and the story is nonsense. Why risk a section chief to bump up the sale price? It is just silly.
The third and the best is the Living Daylights where Bond has to shoot a sniper who is going to kill an important defecting agent. But again Fleming shows Bond to care more about chasing skirt than his job. This is why it gets four stars and not three.
Finally there is a short article about New York which Fleming wrote to try and appease New Yorkers after his own scathing attack after visiting the city, but it is hardly an endorsement and attacks the US with typical public school snobbery for which Fleming is renowned.
Format:Paperback
As described, well packaged, prompt delivery. A bit expensive but my son collects these and that is what he wanted for Xmas!!
1 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Not quite what you would expect, not a bit like the early Bond books ie Dr. NO very dissapointingOctopussy: AND The Living Daylights (Penguin Viking Lit Fiction)
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