Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome, chillingly ruthless, and licensed to kill. This, the first of Ian Fleming's tales of Secret Agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called "Le Chiffre." The battle begins with a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat. If Bond can bring Le Chiffre to ruin at the baccarat table, his Soviet spymasters will be forced to "retire" him. It seems

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When James Bond is asked to settle a dispute involving the unimpeachable Sir Hugo Drax, head of the multimillion-dollar Moonraker missile program, he discovers a bizarre and terrifying truth about Drax and Moonraker that could prove fatal, not only for agent 007, but for millions.

British secret agent James Bond infiltrates the organization of ruthless criminal Auric Goldfinger and his caper with the Soviet unit known as SMERSH.

British secret agent James Bond has to win back the trust of spymaster M by terminating the ultimate assassin, Pistols Scaramanga, who has ambitions far beyond murder for hire.

James Bond battles Sir Maxwell Lustig, a megalomaniac on a floating laboratory in the Caribbean. The wicked man is holding the world hostage by threatening an ecological disaster. On this mission Bond is aided by Swiss intelligence agent Flicka von Grusse, introduced in Never Send Flowers and now--rather unBond like--a steady girlfriend.

James Bond's obsessive search for the terrorists responsible for the bombing of Flight 229 leads him into a deadly nest of killers who have very plausible plans for taking over the United States.

In an adrenaline-fueled thriller set in the present day, a thirty-year-old James Bond goes head-to-head against one of the most compelling and horrific villains in modern thriller fiction. This isn't the Cold War Bond: it's the best of Fleming and Deaver in one seriously sharp and stylish novel. Bond's license to kill meets Deaver's razor-sharp storytelling in a cat-and-mouse game that takes Bond from the Balkans to London to a searing climax on the...

M laid down his pipe and stared at it tetchily. 'We have no choice. Were just going to bring forward this other chap youve been preparing. But you didnt tell me his name." 'Its Bond, sir,' the Chief of Staff replied. 'James Bond.' Its time for James Bond to earn his licence to kill. This is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera.