Live and Let Die (James Bond) [Kindle Edition] Author: Ian Fleming | Language: English | ISBN:
B008L40PWK | Format: PDF, EPUB
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James Bond is not a superstitious man, but it’s hard not to feel unnerved in the presence of Mr. Big. A ruthless Harlem gangster who uses voodoo to control his criminal empire, he’s also one of SMERSH’s top American operatives. Mr. Big has been smuggling British pirate treasure to New York from a remote Jamaican island—and funneling the proceeds to Moscow. With help from Solitaire, Mr. Big’s beautiful and enigmatic Creole fortune-teller, and his old friend Felix Leiter, 007 must locate the crime lord’s hideout, sabotage his operation, and reclaim the pirate hoard for England.
From the jazz joints of Harlem to the shark-infested waters of the Florida Everglades, Live and Let Die sends Bond headlong into the exotic. Direct download links available for Live and Let Die Epub Free
- File Size: 627 KB
- Print Length: 241 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1612185444
- Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (October 16, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008L40PWK
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,259 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
The 2012 release of "Skyfall," the latest in the Bond film series now fifty years old, brought me back again to the Ian Fleming novels, just as had "Casino Royale," which had signaled the reboot of the movie franchise in 2006. That movie was an unusually faithful adaptation of the first of Ian Fleming's 007 books, of the same title. Fleming's sophomore outing, "Live and Let Die" (LALD) was published almost exactly a year after the debut novel, in April of 1954. In story and character development, LALD is a marginal improvement over its predecessor, which I had found wanting in character depth and, even given the time period in which it was written, in its treatment of women. Even though I thought there was some merit to "Casino Royale," and that this story, too, works fairly well, all in all, I'd recommend it more as an archeological artifact of the Bond legend than as a novel in its own right.
In LALD Fleming remains true to the prospectus for his Bond novels that he presented near the end of "Casino Royale." In my review of that book, I noted that Fleming "does not focus on actual spying, but on the threat that causes it. `The business of espionage could be left to the white-collar boys. They could spy and catch the spies. He would go after the threat behind the spies, the threat that made them spy.' Fleming's Bond is not Le Carre's Smiley: Bond, his apparent intellect notwithstanding, is out to eliminate the threat, not the spying."
And so, in LALD, Bond finds himself in New York City investigating a Harlem-based crime figure and apparent tool of the fictionalized Soviet counterintelligence organ, SMERSH. (That fact is pretty much all you'll read of SMERSH in this novel.) "Mr.
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