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This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of the Bond books and films. Jeremy Black offers a historian's interpretation from the perspective of the late 2010s, assessing James Bond in terms of the greatly changing world order of the Bond years—a lifetime that stretches from 1953, when the first novel appeared, to the present. Black argues that the Bond novels—the Fleming books as...
4) Moonraker
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British secret agent James Bond investigates war hero Hugo Drax, the man behind Britain's top-secret Moonraker missile program, revealing a sinister past and a secret plan for the Moonraker.
5) Octopussy
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Roger Moore portrays the immortal action hero as he investigates the murder of a fellow agent who was clutching a priceless Faberge egg at the time of his death.
6) Goldfinger
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"Auric Goldfinger is England's richest man, a ruthless criminal with an insatiable appetite for the world's most precious metal. James Bond's already caught him cheating at cards and golf--but could he also be planning the most audacious gold heist in history? To infiltrate Goldfinger's organization, 007 will have to risk everything--including torture at the hands of the secretive millionaire's Korean henchman, Oddjob. Bond's already seen how this...
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Bond has lost his licence to kill. After taking revenge on the CIA agent who handed his friend over to Sanchez, a master criminal, M revoked his double 0 status and he's now considered a rogue agent.
With MI6 trying to bring him in and only the support of Q behind, him Bond goes after Sanchez.
Boarding his ship, Bond tricks his way into Sanchez's inner circle and discovers the secret of his wealth. But Bond is walking a dangerous tightrope...
8) Goldeneye
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She is beautiful. She is Russian. And she is very, very dangerous. Once Xenia worked for the KGB. But her new master is Janus, a powerful and ambitious Russian leader who no longer cares about ideology. Janus's ambitions are money and power: his normal business methods include theft and murder. And he has just acquired Goldeneye, a piece of high-tech space technology with the power to destroy or corrupt the West's financial markets. But Janus has...
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Licence Renewed is first of 'master storyteller' John Gardner's novels featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent.
Bond has been assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been meeting with a terrorist known as Franco. Together they plan to hijack six nuclear power plants around the world and start a global meltdown. Unless Bond can stop them . . .
10) Goldfinger
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From the opening bomb blast outside a steamy nightclub to a last-minute escape from the president's personal jet, James Bond faces off with a maniacal villain bent on destroying all the gold in Fort Knox and obliterating the world economy.
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Blofeld is dead. And SPECTRE, the world's greatest criminal organisation, disbanded. But then a series of murders and hijackings reveal the unimaginable: someone has revitalised SPECTRE – and it is now more dangerous than ever. Armed with the latest high-tech weapons and gadgets – and a new partner, CIA agent Cedar Leiter – James Bond undertakes his most perilous mission yet. He must halt SPECTRE's plans to take control of America's defences....
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Go from the Egyptian pyramids to the ocean floor and to a gravity-defying mountaintop ski chase with James Bond. He teams with beautiful Russian agent Anya Amasova to stop the megalomanic Stromberg from unleashing a horrific scheme for world domination using Russian and American submarines.
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Jeffery Deaver presents a new James Bond novel.
James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran of the Afghan war, has been recruited to a new organization. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of MI5, MI6 and the Ministry of Defense, its very existence deniable. Its aim: To protect the Realm, by any means necessary. And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfill his mission: preventing...
14) Licence to kill
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James Bond turns renegade to hunt down a master criminal. James leaves the British Secret Service and begins a fierce vendetta after his friend Felix Leiter is brutally attacked by drug lord Franz Sanchez.
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Marking the centennial of the author's birth, a comprehensive anthology of short fiction chronicling the exploits and adventures of the suave British agent includes the tales that served as the inspiration for such films as Octopussy, The Living Daylights, For Your Eyes Only, and the upcoming Fall 2008 Quantum of Solace.