For Your Eyes Only
'Private armies, private wars. How much energy they siphoned off from the common cause, how much fire they directed away from the common enemy!' From "A View to A Kill"; "For Your Eyes Only"; "Quantum of Solace"; "Risico"; The Hildebrand Rarity Five stories. Five missions. Five glimpses into the...
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'Private armies, private wars. How much energy they siphoned off from the common cause, how much fire they directed away from the common enemy!' From "A View to A Kill"; "For Your Eyes Only"; "Quantum of Solace"; "Risico"; The Hildebrand Rarity Five stories. Five missions. Five glimpses into the mind of a spy. From Jamaican estates to brooding French forests, Bond is tested to his limits by the world's most dangerous men and the dark secrets they keep.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099576945 (0099576945)
Publish date: 2012
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Short Stories,
Action,
Suspense
Series: James Bond (Original Series) (#8)
A collection of five short stories that don’t really add much of importance to Bond canon. Still, I guess it’s nice to know where all those movie titles came from. Quick impressions broken down by individual stories: From a View to a Kill: 3* Just a fun little spy story without much substance. ...
I picked up a bunch of James Bond books from a second-hand bookstore a few years ago, and as some of you may have noticed, I am reading my way through them. When I picked up the books I knew all of the films - probably better than anyone really should - but I did not know much about Fleming's writ...
* The eighth Bond book.* This one is a collection of 5 short stories.* The original anthology, i.e., an anthology that contains previously unpublished stories, is a terrible thing, but here we have two stories that had been previously published, one by Cosmopolitan and one by Playboy. Not surprising...
The first collection of Fleming's Bond short stories. "From a View to a Kill", "For Your Eyes Only", "Quantum of Solace", "Risico", and "The Hildebrand Rarity".A mixed bag. I enjoyed "Quantum of Solace" the most, even though it's the least 'Bond' of the stories. "For Your Eyes Only" the least.
11 years ago
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