"Widely regarded as one of the best in the Bond canon"
A list like this wouldn’t complete without the presence of a certain James Bond. Widely regarded as one of the best in the Bond canon, From Russia With Love, the fifth in the series, focuses on the burgeoning Cold War tensions of the period. Bond has proved such a pain in the arse for SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence agency (SMERSH, a name coined by Joseph Stalin, is a Russian phrase meaning ‘death to spies’), that they decide to discredit him and MI6, luring Bond in with the Spektor, a Soviet decoding machine, and an attractive Russian cipher clerk ostensibly wishing to defect.
The book is famous for an extended sequence on board the Orient Express and the fact that it ends on one of the most famous cliffhangers in thriller fiction.
James Bond, the secret service's most lethal agent, is a marked man
| Primary Genre | Espionage and spy thriller |
James Bond, the secret service's most lethal agent, is a marked manDeep inside the Soviet Union, a plot is taking shape. Under the fiendish Colonel Rosa Klebb, the Russian counter-intelligence organisation SMERSH are laying a trap that will not only eliminate Bond, but strike at the very heart of the British establishment.
From Russia With Love features in the following genres: Espionage and spy thriller, Thriller and Suspense
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From Russia With Love was written by Ian Fleming and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
From Russia With Love has 384 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
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