James Bond 007 - Casino Royale
There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. Escape with the nation's favourite spy in the addictive first novel in Ian Fleming's classic series. Le Chiffre is a businessman with expensive tastes, and SMERSH's chief operative in France.But as his dissolute lifestyle threatens to ruin him, his only hope is to risk his paymasters' money at the card table. James Bond, the finest [...]
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Auteur : Ian FLEMING
Editeur : Vintage
Collection : James Bond 007
Date parution : 09/2012Anglais
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There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. Escape with the nation's favourite spy in the addictive first novel in Ian Fleming's classic series. Le Chiffre is a businessman with expensive tastes, and SMERSH's chief operative in France.
But as his dissolute lifestyle threatens to ruin him, his only hope is to risk his paymasters' money at the card table. James Bond, the finest gambler in the service, has a deadly new mission: to outplay Le Chiffre and shatter his Soviet cell. Amidst the opulence of Casino Royale, the two men face each other for a game with the highest stakes of all.
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Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist, and commander in the royal Navy during the Second World War. He was a grandson of the Scottish financier Robert Fleming, who founded the Scottish American Investment Trust and the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co.
Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling his adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories. Additionally, Fleming wrote the children's story
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
and two non-fiction books.