Live and Let Die: Read the second gripping unforgettable James Bond novel - Couverture souple

Fleming, Ian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099576864 ISBN 13 : 9780099576860

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2012

Synopsis

There's no better time to rediscover James Bond.

Mr Big is brutal, brilliant and feared worldwide.

Protected by Voodoo forces and the psychic powers of his prisoner Solitaire, he is an invincible SMERSH operative at the head of a ruthless smuggling ring.

James Bond's new assignment will take him to the heart of the occult: to infiltrate this secret world and destroy Mr Big's global network.

From Harlem's throbbing jazz joints to the shark-infested waters of Jamaica, enemy eyes watch Bond's every move. He must tread carefully to avoid a nightmarish fate.

'Bond is a hero for all time' Jeffrey Deaver

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London in 1908. His first job was at Reuters news agency after which he worked briefly as a stockbroker before working in Naval Intelligence during the Second World War. His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and was an instant success. Fleming went on to write twelve other Bond books as well as two works of non-fiction and the children’s classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Bond books have sold over sixty million copies and earned praise from figures such as Raymond Chandler who called Fleming ‘the most forceful and driving writer of thrillers in England’ and President Kennedy who named From Russia with Love as one of his favourite books. The books inspired a hugely successful series of film adaptations which began in 1961 with the release of Dr No, starring Sean Connery as 007. Fleming was married to Anne Rothermere with whom he had a son, Caspar. He died in 1964.

Andrew Taylor is a determined linguist of questionable skill, who speaks enough French to make the French sneer at him, enough Arabic to make Arabs laugh at him, and enough Spanish to order a cup of coffee and have a hope of getting, if not necessarily what he asked for, at least a hot drink of some kind. He can ask for milk in Russian, and if he asks for directions in the street, he will understand the answer if it means 'straight on'. He is better at English, in which language he has written ten books, including biographies and books on language, history and poetry. He has also been a senior journalist in Europe and the Middle East, a Fleet Street political correspondent at Westminster, a news reporter for the BBC and a columnist for The Sunday Times.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Live and Let Die, Ian Fleming’s second 007 novel, takes Bond from Harlem to Jamaica in a frenzied hunt for the brilliant deadly gangster Mr Big and his macabre network of associates.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099576864
• ISBN 13: 9780099576860
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Label emmaus; 766798695; librairie.solidaire@label-emmaus.co; ; labelemmaus; 74 rue paul vaillant couturier; noisy le sec; 93130; France