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From Russia with Love

A James Bond Adventure

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From Russia with Love

By: Ian Fleming
Narrated by: Mark Gatiss
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JAMES BOND GOES HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH SMERSH IN A BID TO SECURE A KEY PIECE OF SOVIET INTELLIGENCE

SMERSH, the Russian intelligence unit whose acronym stands for “Death to Spies,” is hell-bent on destroying Special Agent James Bond.

His death would deal a catastrophic hammer blow to the heart of the British Secret Service.

The lure? A beautiful woman who needs 007’s help. Tatiana Romanova is a Russian spy who promises to hand over the prized Spektor decoding machine if Bond aids her defection. Bond suspects a trap but can’t resist the opportunity to give the British the upper hand in a chilling new front of the Cold War.

So begins a deadly game of bluff and double bluff, with Bond a marked man as he enters the murky world of Balkan espionage.

©1957 Ian Fleming Publications Ltd (P)2025 Ian Fleming Publications Action & Adventure Classics Espionage Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense World Literature Russia Soviet Union Cold War
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Other reviews gave me the impression it was going to be the best James Bond book. It wasn’t.

Id give the first 3/4 of the book 2.5 star and the last quarter 3.

Basically no action with zero card play.

It wasn’t bad, but was fairly uneventful. Half the book is from a female’s point of view, talking about her body. Again it wasn’t bad, but felt dragged on for majority of the book.

2.5 rounded up to 3.

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