Ian Fleming

When Ernst Stavro Blofeld blasts into eternity the girl whom James Bond has married only hours before, the heart, the zest for life, goes out of Bond. Incredibly, from being a top agent of the Secret Service, he goes to pieces, is even on the verge of becoming a security risk. M is persuaded to give him one last chance, an impossible mission far removed from his usual duties, and Bond leaves for Japan.

Bond may have a license to kill, but "Pistols" Scaramanga has a talent for it. He's a KGB-trained assassin who's left a trail of dead British Secret Service agents in his wake. His weapon of choice? A gold-plated Colt .45. In the aftermath of his brainwashing by the Soviets, Bond is given one last chance to win back M's trust: terminate Scaramanga before he strikes MI6 again. Traveling to Jamaica under an assumed name, Bond manages to infiltrate Scaramanga's...

British secret agent James Bond has never met an adversary like Mr. Big, a gangland kingpin who uses voodoo to control his vast criminal empire. When a crooked trail of smuggled gold leads through Mr. Big's New York hideout to SMERSH headquarters in Moscow, Bond's mission takes him from Harlem to the Florida Everglades.

Auric Goldfinger is the richest man in England -- though his wealth can't be found in banks. He's been hoarding vast stockpiles of his namesake metal, and it's attracted the suspicion of 007's superiors at MI6. Sent to investigate, Bond uncovers an ingenious gold-smuggling scheme, as well as Goldfinger's most daring caper yet: Operation Grand Slam, a gold heist so audacious it could bring down the world economy and put the fate of the West in the...

Two children persuade their father, an inventor, to purchase and restore an old car which turns out to have magical powers.

Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, inspired by a Sunday Times article on diamond smuggling. The book was first published in 1956. The story centres on Bond's investigation of a diamond-smuggling operation that originates in the mines of Sierra Leone and runs to Las Vegas. Along the way...

Geheimagent 007 entlarvt einen Kartenbetrüger und deckt sein tödliches Geheimnis auf ... Auf Ms Bitte hin tritt Bond gegen Sir Hugo Drax am Kartentisch an. Er soll dem Millionär und Kopf des Moonraker-Projektes eine Lektion erteilen, die er nicht so schnell vergessen wird, und einen Skandal verhindern, der das neueste Abwehrsystem Großbritanniens betrifft. Aber hinter dem mysteriösen Drax steckt mehr als ein einfacher Kartenschwindler. Und als...

A pulse-pounding collection of stories by Ian Fleming featuring global icon and legendary spy James Bond/007. When sudden emergencies arise, James Bond is there to meet them. Whether dealing with the assassination of a Cuban thug in America, the destruction of an international heroin ring, or a mysterious death in the Seychelles, 007 gets the job done in his own unmistakable style. For Bond it is just routine. For anyone else- certain death....

Readers can explore James Bond creator Ian Fleming's writing on the pleasures of drinking and mix themselves fifty delicious cocktails from recipes inspired by his books and developed by award-winning London bar, Swift. Both Bond and Fleming were partial to a stiff drink. In both fiction and real life, cocktails were an important and well-chosen accompaniment to adventure and daring and often relaxing. Fleming made the Martini famous with Bond's...