Casino Royale

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Author:

Fleming, Ian

Introduction by:

Judd, Alan

ISBN:

978-0-09-957685-3

Publication Date:

Nov 2012

Publisher:

Penguin Random House

Imprint:

Arrow

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

AUD $19.99

Book Description:

There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. Escape with the nation's favourite spy in the addictive first novel in Ian Fleming's classic series. Le Chiffre is a businessman with expensive tastes, and SMERSH's chief operative in France. But as his dissolute lifestyle threatens to ruin him, his only hope is to risk his paymasters' money at the card table. James Bond, the finest gambler in the service, has a deadly new mission:...
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Book Details

Pages:	256
Detailed Subjects:	Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	12.9 x 19.8 x 1.6 cm
Book Weight:	0.182 Kilograms

Author Biography

Fleming, Ian (Author)

Ian Lancaster Fleming was born on May 28, 1908, in London, England. He attended Eton College and then the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He left there after a year to go study languages in Munich and Geneva.

Fleming served as the Moscow correspondent for the Reuters News Agency from 1929 till 1933. he then became a banker and a stockholder in London until the beginning of World War II. When the war began, Fleming became the personal assistant to the Director of British Naval Intelligence, where he learned most of his espionage terms. When the war was over, he worked as the foreign manager of The Sunday Times in London.

Fleming wrote twelve James Bond novels, nearly all of which were made into Motion Pictures. His works included: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, Dr. No, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, and For Your eyes Only. He of died of a heart attack on August 12, 1964.

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