Live and Let Die, a breath-taking hunt for secret treasure that takes Bond to Harlem, Florida and Jamaica is still better. Ian Fleming's first book Casino Royale, an account of the gambling assignment that nearly cost Bond his life, was described as 'the best thriller since the war'.
For collectors who have obtained the basic set of first editions there are two additional books that can be added to garnish their collection: When The Man with the Golden Gun was first published a very small number of copies were decorated with a golden gun. It is in these higher ranges of Secret Service work that James Bond operates on the very outside edge of danger, and, in this story, among hazards no reader will easily forget. A UK first edition of Ian Flemings James Bond novel Live and Let Die published in 1954, the basis for the Roger Moore film and a rare and valuable book in. First published in 1954 by Cape, this was the first Bond novel to be published in a book club edition. Live and Let Die correct first edition jacket flap without designer credit. The Chief and the High Officers of the Secret Service revelled in these subterranean labyrinths, and pursued their task with cold and silent passion.' SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL in Thoughts and Adventures. Tangle within tangle, plot and counter-plot, ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross, true agent, false agent, double agent, gold and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the firing party, were interwoven in many a texture so intricate as to be incredible and yet true.
In the higher ranges of Secret Service work the actual facts in many cases were in every respect equal to the most fantastic inventions of romance and melodrama.
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