Octopussy And The Living Daylights

From the legacy of Ian Fleming come these two recently discovered short novels—superb examples of JAMES BOND AT HIS BEST They were written by 007’s creator before his death and are published here in book form for the first time. OCTOPUSSY is set in Fleming’s favourite pleasure paradise, Jamaica in the British West Indies. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS takes place in, what is for Fleming, a new kind of locale: the border territory that divides East and West Berlin. In both novellas Fleming gives the audacious Bond the power of life—or death—over two very different adversaries. Bond’s first quarry is a rather odd Englishman, the very proper Major Dexter Smythe. Smythe is a retired officer of the Royal Marines. He is a man of no visible wealth, yet he lives in luxurious idleness. His pet diversion—indeed his obsession—is a dangerous experiment that he is conducting with a predator of the deep, with a many-tentacled beauty whom he fondly has named Octopussy.... Bond’s second target is one of Fleming’s most tantalizing villains, a person whom Bond, and the reader, glimpses but never meets. M. sends Bond to West Berlin to safeguard the escape of Number 272, a British agent who is privy to Russia’s top-secret atomic plans. Agent 272 is to make his break for freedom across the East Berlin frontier. The big trouble is: the KGB knows the escape plan and that plan cannot be changed. They have assigned their best sniper, Trigger, to shoot 272 on the run, on a certain street, at a certain time. Armed with a .308-caliber International Experimental Target rifle, Bond must stake out the sniper and kill him before he kills 272...

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Features 9 short stories written by Ian Fleming starring his most famous creation, the MI6 super-spy James Bond. Includes stories such as For Your Eyes Only and Quantum of Solace. James Bond is one of the most iconic characters in 20th-century literature. In addition to the 12 novels and 9 short stories written by Ian Fleming, there have been over 40 novels and short stories written about the spy by other authors, and 26 films produced starring actors such as Sean Connery and Daniel Craig as 007. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

‘On November 2nd armed with a sheaf of visas...one suitcase...and my typewriter, I left humdrum London for the thrilling cities of the world...’ In 1959, Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was commissioned by the Sunday Times to explore fourteen of the world’s most exotic cities. Fleming saw it all with a thriller writer’s eye. From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in favour of underground haunts, and mingling with celebrities, gangsters and geishas. The result is a series of vivid snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world.

De wereld van de internationale spionage is er een van smerige zaakjes. Niemand weet dat beter dan James Bond, de Britse geheim agent die door sommigen wordt geroemd, maar door vele anderen wordt gevreesd. In welke situatie 007 ook verzeild raakt, dankzij zijn moed, vindingrijkheid en charme weet hij elke opdracht tot een goed einde te brengen. Of het nu gaat om de confrontatie met een majoor die met een geheim is ondergedoken op Jamaica, de moord op een Russische sluipschutter in Berlijn, of de strijd met een beruchte KGB-functionaris tijdens een veiling bij Sotheby's... Ian Fleming werd geboren op 28 mei 1908 in Londen. Hij bezocht Eton College en na een korte periode op de beroemde Royal Military Academy van Sandhurst trad hij in dienst van het persbureau Reuters. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog werkte Fleming voor de marine-inlichtingendienst, waar hij van dichtbij kennismaakte met de spionagewereld die hij in zijn James Bond-boeken zou vereeuwigen. In 1953 verscheen het eerste James Bond-boek, Casino Royale. In 1964 overleed de geestelijk vader van de beroemdste spion aller tijden. Octopussy & The Living Daylights, het veertiende en laatste James Bond-boek, verscheen postuum in 1966. .

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