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Jun 6, 2024 · Bursting with action and intrigue, From Russia with Love is one of the best-loved books in the Bond canon-an instant classic that set the standard for sophisticated literary spycraft for decades to come.
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From Russia With Love is the fifth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Written in the height of the Cold War, it pits Russia versus the west in a race to achieve the best in stealth technology.
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From Russia with Love (James Bond 007 Book 5) Kindle Edition. by Ian Fleming (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.4 4,102 ratings. Book 5 of 14: James Bond (Original Series) See all formats and editions. Meet James Bond, the world's most famous spy.James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence.
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With his fifth book, Ian Fleming really wanted to step up his game. A pure Cold War spy thriller, From Russia, With Lovefeatures Bond’s attempts at getting his hands on Russia’s Spektor cipher machine. Note the use again of a variation on the word “spectre”. Bond doesn’t even appear until a third of the way through the book and the start of the nov...
Darko Kerim
James Bond finds a good friend and ally in the Head of Station T in Istanbul. Darko Kerim is is the product of a Turkish father and English mother and, according to M, “One of the best men we’ve got anywhere. Does a wonderful job”. Kerim is two inches taller than Bond with a face that is “vaguely gipsy-like” and with a large build thanks to training to be a professional strong man.
Tatiana Romanova
Working as a corporal for the Ministry of State Security (MGB) in Moscow, Tatiana Romanova is chosen by Rosa Klebb for an operation to discredit the British Secret Service. Claiming to have fallen in love with an archive photo of Bond, her story is that she wants to defect to the West. To clinch it for the Secret Service she plans on bringing the Russian’s Spektor code machine with her. Although working for Rosa Klebb and SMERSH, she does genuinely fall for Bond – and vice versa – and looks f...
Vavra
The head of a gang of gipsies, Vavra, is one of Kerim’s best sources. When Bond meets him Vavra wears Macedonian dress, a “white shirt with full sleeves, baggy trousers and laced soft leather top-boots”. He also carries a short curved dagger in a leather scabbard. Before departing Vavra tells them that Kerim should beware of “a son of the snows” while Bond should watch out for “a man who is owned by the moon”.
Tired of the monotonous “soft life” in London, Bond’s spirits are reignited when he is sent to Istanbul to rendezvous a beautiful Russian cipher clerk who claims to have fallen in love with him. Bond’s journey begins as he flies from London Airport to Istanbul via Rome Ciampini and Athens airports. Upon landing at Yesilkoy Airport, he is chauffeure...
Bond’s BEA flight to Istanbul stops over in Rome, where he enjoys two Americanos. On the final leg of the flight, he drinksa couple of tumblers of ouzo with a mouthful of ice water. During dinner, he savours two dry martinis and half a bottle of Calvet claret. After arriving in Istanbul, Bond meets Darko Kerim, the head of Station T. Kerim takes hi...
Oct 16, 2012 · Bursting with action and intrigue, From Russia with Love is one of the best-loved books in the Bond canon―an instant classic that set the standard for sophisticated literary spycraft for decades to come.
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Jul 11, 2017 · The deadly and sinister SMERSH sets a trap to catch and kill James Bond, ace British spy with a weakness for women and wine, and they bait it with a beautiful brunette. But they don’t count on...
