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Bond #15: 'Colonel Sun'

THE BOOK: COLONEL SUN

Year: 1968

Author: Kingsley Amis (as Robert Markham)

THE PLOT

Bond teams with a young Soviet agent and a Greek Resistance veteran to rescue a kidnapped M in Greece, only to discover a false-flag operation planned by the mysterio

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Bond #14D: '007 in New York'

Continuing our discussion of the book Octopussy, an anthology published posthumously with four short stories. This is the fourth.

 THE BOOK: OCTOPUSSY

The story: "007 IN NEW YORK"

The Year: 1966

The Author: Ian Fleming

THE PLOT

James Bond arrives in

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Bond #14C: 'The Living Daylights'

Continuing our discussion of the book OCTOPUSSY, an anthology with four short stories published posthumously. This is the third.

THE BOOK: OCTOPUSSY

The Story: "THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS"

The Year: 1966

The Author: Ian Fleming

THE PLOT

Bond is assigned sn

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Bond #14B: 'Property of a Lady'

Continuing our discussion of the book Octopussy, an anthology with four short stories. This is the second.

THE BOOK: OCTOPUSSY

The Story: "PROPERTY OF A LADY"

The Year: 1966

The Author: Ian Fleming

THE PLOT

The Resident Director — the top Russian age

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Bond #14A: 'Octopussy'

THE BOOK: OCTOPUSSY

The story: "OCTOPUSSY"

The Year: 1966

The Author: Ian Fleming

THE PLOT

A British officer murders a German civilian at the end of World War II after using him to find some Nazi gold, and retires comfortably to Jamaica. James Bond a

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Bond #13: 'The Man with the Golden Gun'

THE BOOK: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN

The Year: 1965

The Author: Ian Fleming

THE PLOT

M sends Bond to assassinate a killer for hire working in Latin America as a test to see if he is mentally healthy enough to return to service after his brainwashing

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Bond #12: 'You Only Live Twice'

THE BOOK: YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

The Year: 1964

The Author: Ian Fleming

THE PLOT

M sends Bond to trade with the head of the Japanese secret service, Tiger Tanaka, for a Russian decoding machine. But it turns out all Bond has to trade with is his service

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Bond #11: On Her Majesty's Secret Service

THE BOOK

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE

Year: 1963

Author: Ian Fleming

THE PLOT

James Bond woos a mob boss' daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Ernst Stavro Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps involving beautiful wom

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Garth Ennis to write James Bond for Dynamite Entertainment

Here's the story:

GARTH ENNIS TACKLES JAMES BOND

This is quite a coup for Dynamite. Ennis has written some great war stories, as well as Preacher, The Boys, Hitman and a nine-year run on The Punisher. 

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Prime Video to stream James Bond-based reality competition show

Amazon Prime Video is going to release a James Bond-themed TV reality competition show. I'm not sure how contestants on 007: Road to a Million can use their license to kill without being arrested, but I am a bear of very small imagination.

Here's the

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Bond #10: 'The Spy Who Loved Me'

THE BOOK

Year: 1962

Author: Ian Fleming

THE PLOT

A Canadian woman, Vivienne Michel, is left in charge of a remote New England hotel overnight when two thugs arrive on orders by the Mafioso owner to burn the place down for the insurance money. The thu

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Bond #9: 'Thunderball'

THE BOOK: THUNDERBALL

Year: 1961 

Author: Ian Fleming

 

THE PLOT

A new criminal organization named SPECTRE, led by career criminal Ernst Stavro Blofeld, steals two nuclear weapons and blackmails the West. Every NATO intelligence operative, including

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Bond #8E: 'The Hildebrand Rarity'

Continuing our discussion of the book For Your Eyes Only, an anthology with five short stories. This is the fifth.

 

THE BOOK: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

"THE HILDEBRAND RARITY"

 

THE PLOT

While in the Seychelles, Bond accompanies an abusive American million

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Bond #8D: 'Risico'

Continuing our discussion of the book For Your Eyes Only, an anthology with five short stories. This is the fourth.

 

THE BOOK: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

"RISICO"

THE PLOT

M sends Bond to uncover a drug-smuggling operation based in Italy that is sending nar

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Bond #8C: 'Quantum of Solace'

Continuing our discussion of the book For Your Eyes Only, an anthology with five short stories. This is the third.

 

THE BOOK: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

"QUANTUM OF SOLACE"

THE PLOT

After completing a mission in the Bahamas, Bond is at a dinner party at Gov

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Bond #8B: 'For Your Eyes Only'

Continuing our discussion of the book For Your Eyes Only, an anthology with five short stories. This is the second.

 

THE BOOK: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

"FOR YOUR EYES ONLY"

THE PLOT

A British couple named Havelock are murdered by Cuban gangsters, led by a

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Bond #8A: 'From a View to a Kill'

THE BOOK: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

Author: Ian Fleming

Year published: 1960

Format: This is a series of short stories, three of which (according to the James Bond wiki) were adapted from outlines of episodes Fleming had written in anticipation of a TV show

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Bond #7: 'Goldfinger'

THE BOOK: GOLDFINGER

Author: Ian Fleming

Year published: 1959

Personal note: I saw the movie when it came out, and it made quite an impression on 6-year-old me. Throughout the book, I always saw Gert Fröbe as Goldfinger in my mind's eye, regardless o

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Happy James Bond Day!

Seventy years ago, on April 13, 1953, Casino Royale was published in the UK. I hope you all celebrate appropriately, with whatever beverage you prefer shaken, not stirred.

Here's today's email from Ian Fleming Publications. No, I will not be buying t

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How wrong is this James Bond article?

This story came through my news feed, so I clicked it open. 

 

The Strangest Change James Bond Made To Felix Leiter

Isn't What You'd Expect
Diamonds Are Forever made the 007 source novel wackier, sillier, and more over-the-top, except when it came to

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