Live and Let Die

by Ian Fleming

Overview

Her hair was black and fell to her shoulders. She had high cheekbones and a sensual mouth, and wore a dress of white silk. Her eyes were blue, alight and disdainful, but, as they gazed into his with a touch of humour, Bond realized that they contained a message. Solitaire watched his eyes on her and nonchalantly drew her forearms together so that the valley between her breasts deepened. The message was unmistakable. Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr Big-master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. James Bond has no time for superstition-he knows that this criminal heavy hitter is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realized that Big is one of the most dangerous men that he has ever faced. And no-one, not even the mysterious Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781915797230
Publisher:	Ian Fleming Publications
Publication date:	10/17/2024
Series:	James Bond Series
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	8.78(w) x 5.63(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London in 1908. His first job was at Reuters news agency, after which he worked briefly as a stockbroker before working in Naval Intelligence during World War Two. His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and was an instant success. Fleming went on to write thirteen other Bond books as well as two works of non-fiction and the children's classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Bond books have earned praise from figures such as Raymond Chandler, who called Fleming 'the most forceful and driving writer of thrillers in England' and President Kennedy, who named From Russia with Love as one of his favorite books. The books inspired a hugely successful series of film adaptations which began in 1961 with the release of Dr No.He was married to Ann O'Neill with whom he had a son, Caspar. He died in 1964.

Editorial Reviews

Tense; ice-cold, sophisticated.”

Evening Standard (London)

This is an ingenious affair, full of recondite knowledge and horrific spills and thrills.”

The Times (Sunday)

Contains passages which for sheer excitement have not been surpassed by any modern writer of this kind.”

Times Literary Supplement (London)

[Simon Vance’s] polished voice is an enchanting accompaniment to Fleming’s exotic settings and stories. His English accent is as smooth as a dry martini—shaken not stirred—and he slips into other accents as easily as the fictional 007 slips out of a dangerous situation and into the bed of a beautiful woman.”

AudioFile

Live and Let Die is one of Ian Fleming’s best plots, hard-hitting and violent in a way that none of the others are. The writing displays the author’s confident ability to sweep the reader along at a breakneck pace with an engaging rhythm and flow.”

author of High Time to Kill Raymond Benson