Thunderball
Thunderball is the 9th novel by Ian Fleming based on the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. Fleming wrote it intending to film it; it is officially credited as 'based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham & Ian Fleming', a controversial shared credit...
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Thunderball is the 9th novel by Ian Fleming based on the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. Fleming wrote it intending to film it; it is officially credited as 'based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham & Ian Fleming', a controversial shared credit that was the result of a courtroom decision. The novel was 1st published on
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pan
Edition language: English
In which M. packs Bond off to a health spa for detox to cure his apparent alcoholism and chain smoking and general unhealthiness. Hilarity and international intrigue ensue. I once tried a sugar-free, low GI diet to see if it would help reduce my chronic pain. I vividly remember the carb and sugar ...
"This is a silly plan. This is the sort of melodramatic nonsense people write about in thrillers." ....and that criticism straight out of the mouth of the "bond girl" in this installment is probably one of my favourite lines in the series so far. Whoever said they were all shallow?! In fact, Dom...
* The ninth Bond book.* Fifth appearance of Leiter, first appearance of Blofeld.* Fleming's back in top form (after the disappointment of Goldfinger) in this, the novel that introduces Blofeld and SPECTRE (though Bond doesn't get to go after Blofeld here and doesn't even know he exists).* High stake...
Thunderball, the first of the Blofeld trilogy within the Bond series, derives its name from the operation that Bond and the CIA (meaning Felix Leiter) collaborate to recover two stolen atomic weapons. Wait there's more! The reader has to traverse a greatly humorous section where Bond goes to a healt...
The novel that was originally written to be a screenplay. And it works. Blofeld's first outing as Bond takes on Spectre this time.
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