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For James Bond and the British Secret Service, the stakes couldn’t be higher. 007’s mission is to neutralise the Russian operative Le Chiffre by ruining him at the baccarat table, forcing his Soviet masters to ‘retire’ him. When Le Chiffre hits a losing streak, Bond discovers his luck is in – that is, until he meets Vesper Lynd, a glamorous agent who might yet prove to be his downfall.

The last book written by Ian Fleming, but by no means the least. In Octopussy, a talented but wayward British major pays a high price when his wartime past catches up with him, while in The Property of a Lady, a Fabergé egg leads Bond to a KGB spy. In The Living Daylights, Bond has a perilous rendezvous in sniper’s alley between East and West Berlin, and 007 in New York (read by Lucy Fleming) see him sent to America to warn an ex-MI6 operative about a dangerous liaison. All part of the job for 007…

When 007 turns up at a sleepy American backwoods motel, it doesn’t take him long to realise that Vivienne Michel is in a tight spot, and that Sol Horror and Sluggsy Morant are hardened killers bent on destruction. Escaping from a past she doesn’t want to relive, Viv turns to James Bond to save her.

In his Alpine base, Blofeld is developing biological weapons that will devastate Britain. Unaware of the danger, James Bond is about to marryTeresa di Vicenzo, the daughter of a Corsican Mafioso. But then he is sent to Switzerland. Bond’s marriage and Blofeld’s schemes disintegrate in a blizzard of gunfire and high-explosives from which neither man emerges the victor.

When 007 goes to Harlem it’s not just for the jazz. This is the kingdom of Mr Big, master of crime, voodoo baron and partner in SMERSH’s grim company of death. Those who Mr Big cannot possess, he crushes – like his beautiful prisoner, Solitaire, and her would-be saviours James Bond and Agency man, Felix Leiter. All three are marked out as victims in a trail of terror, treachery and torture that leads from New York’s underworld to the shark-infested island in the sun that Mr Big calls his own.

If you try to assassinate your boss – even though brainwashed at the time – you must pay the price. To redeem himself James Bond is sent to kill one of the most lethal hitmen in the world… Paco ‘Pistols’ Scaramanga. In the sultry heat of Jamaica, 007 infiltrates his target’s criminal cooperative – only to find that Scaramanga’s bullets are laced with snake venom. When the end comes, every shot will count.

When the Pott family save Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the terrible fate of being crushed to the size of a matchbox at the scrapyard, she repays Caractacus, Jeremy and Jemima with the best road trip ever. For Chitty is no ordinary car: she can talk - and float - and fly! The amazing automobile takes the Potts on a trip to the seaside followed by a fantastic journey across the Channel to France, where two cunning criminals are planning to rob Paris’ most famous chocolatier, Monsieur Bon Bon.

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James Bond is targeted for elimination by SMERSH, and the malevolent Colonel Rosa Klebb has set a trap in Istanbul. The bait is the Spektor decoding machine, which is to be delivered by the irresistible Tatiana Romanova. The assassin is Red Grant, a psychopath who has defected from the West. Bond and Tatiana become pawns in a game of cross and double-cross that reaches its deadly finale on the Orient Express.

Ian Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the world’s most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling Cities, a masterpiece of well-observed travelogue that stands ably alongside the author’s Bond canon.

A game of canasta turns out crooked and a golden girl ends up dead. It seems that Auric Goldfinger is a bad loser when it comes to cards. He’s also the world’s most ruthless and successful gold smuggler. As James Bond follows his trail, he discovers that Goldfinger’s real game is the heist of fifteen billion dollars of US government bullion. The final hand is played at Fort Knox, in a spectacular display of deception and intrigue.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld, leader of the terrorist organisation SPECTRE, has hijacked an American plane loaded with atomic weapons. Unless his demands are met he will destroy one of the world’s major cities. With only one week to locate the missing bombs, Bond goes to the Bahamas where he encounters Blofeld’s right-hand man, Emilio Largo and his mistress Domino. With time running out, Bond learns that sharks are not the only killers in the Caribbean Sea.

“Le Chiffre” is a ruthless operative and the accountant for a soviet SMERSH cell in France, but he’s on the verge of disaster after gambling away his client’s money. Taking the last of his stash, he lures a dozen wealthy players to a high-stakes baccarat game, hoping to hustle his way whole.

Des diamants sont passés en contrebande à grande échelle de l'Afrique à l'Amérique en passant par la Grande-Bretagne. La mission de 007 est de démanteler ce réseau de contrebande. Cette mission dangereuse l'emmène à l'hippodrome et aux bains de boue de Saratoga Springs, aux tables de jeu de Las Vegas, à la ville fantôme de Spectreville et bien au-delà. La mafia étoilée menace d'être trop forte, même pour Bond, mais il peut compter sur l'aide de Tiffany Case, une co-conspiratrice.

Tatiana Romanova, una hermosa cabo soviética, deserta aparentemente con intención de entregarse a los británicos, alegando que se ha enamorado del agente 007. Pero esto no es más que el inicio de una enrevesada operación que busca terminar con la reputación y la vida de Bond, pues la agencia soviética de contraespionaje SMERSH le ha puesto en su punto de mira, ya que el espía británico ha frustrado sus planes demasiadas veces y los rusos le han condenado a muerte.

El agente 007 recibe la misión de infiltrarse en una organización de contrabandistas que introduce diamantes de Sierra Leona en Estados Unidos. Usando la falsa identidad de Peter Franks, un antiguo ladrón, el espía británico no tarda en descubrir que tras el tráfico de piedras preciosas se halla una despiadada banda mafiosa americana.

Sir Hugo Drax, un empresario multimillonario y héroe nacional de pasado misterioso, comienza la construcción de Moonraker, el primer proyecto de misil nuclear de Gran Bretaña. Cuando un oficial de seguridad del proyecto es asesinado, Bond debe investigar los extraños sucesos que ocurren en la base de fabricación de misiles. Junto a la hermosa agente especial Gala Brand, 007 ha de descubrir la peligrosa y terrible verdad acerca de Moonraker. Nazis, soviéticos, peligro nuclear, espionaje internacional y una terrible venganza se cruzarán en el camino de Bond... James Bond.

Mister Big, un despiadado gánster de Harlem que dirige todo un imperio del crimen y que parece estar utilizando un antiguo tesoro pirata enterrado en una isla jamaicana para financiar operaciones de espionaje soviético en suelo estadounidense. Un poderoso enemigo que, por si fuera poco, parece experto en las negras artes del vudú, algo que, a pesar de la ayuda que le presta la hermosa Solitaire, puede terminar incluso con Bond, James Bond.

Pour James Bond et les services secrets britanniques, les enjeux ne pourraient pas être plus importants. La mission de 007 est de neutraliser l'agent russe Le Chiffre en le ruinant à la table de baccarat, ce qui obligera ses maîtres soviétiques à le "faire disposer". Lorsque Le Chiffre se met à perdre, Bond se rend compte que la chance a tourné en sa faveur - jusqu'à ce qu'il rencontre Vesper Lynd, un agent glamour qui pourrait bien causer sa perte.

Quand 007 se rend à Harlem, ce n'est pas seulement pour le jazz. C'est le royaume de M. Big, maître du crime, baron du vaudou et le partenaire de la sinistre compagnie de la mort SMERSH. Ceux que M. Big ne peut posséder, il les écrase—comme sa belle prisonnière, Solitaire, et ses sauveurs potentiels, James Bond et l'homme de l'Agence, Felix Leiter. Tous trois sont les victimes d'un parcours de terreur, de trahison et de torture qui emmène des bas-fonds de New York à l'île du soleil infestée de requins que M. Big appelle les siens.