Casino Royale - Rilegato

Fleming, Ian

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0718153839 ISBN 13: 9780718153830

Casa editrice: PENGUIN 007, 2008

Riassunto

Casino Royale is the first of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels and sees the British agent dispatched to France to ruin an enemy agent at cards ...

Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome; chillingly ruthless and very deadly. Spymaster M has sent Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply ‘Le Chiffre’ – by ruining him at the baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to ‘retire’ him. It seems that lady luck is taken with James – Le Chiffre has hit a losing streak. But some people just refuse to play by the rules, and Bond’s attraction to a beautiful female agent leads him to disaster and an unexpected saviour ...

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Recensione:

A superb gambling scene, a torture scene which still haunts me, and, of course, a beautiful girl (Raymond Chandler )

Bond is a classic adventure-story hero ... a hero for all time (Jeffrey Deaver )

L'autore:

Born in London in 1908, Ian Fleming worked as a banker and journalist before serving in the British Naval Intelligence during WWII. He published his first novel Casino Royale in 1953 and thus started the astoundingly successful Bond novels and films. Fleming died in 1964.

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• Editore: PENGUIN 007
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0718153839
• ISBN 13: 9780718153830
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208