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Casino Royale
Ian Fleming said that he wrote Casino Royale as “a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of forty-three.” After a distinguished career in British Intelligence, and decades as a womanizing bachelor, Fleming had decided to settle down, his partner an aristocrat who had been married to a Lord and then a Baron, and was now pregnant by him. Depending on which friend does the telling, or which way Fleming’s own comments are read, either he wanted to prove his worth as a writer-husband or run from his new relationship. On the day after his marriage, he retreated to his study, finishing the first draft of Casino Royale in two months —2,000 words ea…
Live and Let Die
When Agent 007 goes to Harlem, it’s not just for the jazz. Harlem is the kingdom of Mr. Big, voodoo baron and black master of crime. As gold coins from a Jamaican pirate hoard start turning up in Harlem pawnshops, “M” suspects the treasure is being used to finance SMERSH activities in America. Agent 007 is sent to New York with a mission: Uncover the criminal operation of Mr. Big, senior partner in SMERSH’s grim company of death. Those Mr. Big cannot possess he crushes; those who cross him will meet painful ends, like his beautiful prisoner, Solitaire, and her lover, James Bond. Both are marked as victims in a trail of terror, treachery, and torture that leads…
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