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Thunderball
Ian Fleming
There's not supposed to be international espionage and intrigue - or drinking and smoking, for that matter - at Shrublands health clinic, where 007 James Bond has reluctantly whittled away two weeks, convalescing after a poor physical assessment. But when a new secret organization calling itself SPECTRE hijacks two atomic bombs and demands ransom from the world's government agencies, it doesn't take long for 007 to spring back into action.
Bond embarks on a secret mission to the Bahamas to investigate a "treasure hunt" aboard the Disco Volante, manned by Emilio Largo, otherwise known as SPECTRE's Number 1. Bond crosses paths with Largo's mistress, the gorgeous Domino Vitali, as his mission in paradise leads him deeper into the ranks of SPECTRE and reveals the one man whose skills could rival his own: calm, calculating, and deadly Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The world is suddenly a very dangerous place again.
I have to wonder just how many Bond novels need to take place with Bond and a bombshell in a bikini down in the tropics. Many of these novels involve him in the Bahamas or another tropical location with a barely clad beach bunny. While the first few novels to do this were good, it gets a bit old after a while.
As a spy novel in general, this is fantastic. Ian Fleming knew exactly what he was doing and did his research well. After so many novels, the characters that appear throughout the series are well fleshed out and it feels like the reader knows them personally. However, I'd like to see Bond heading off to different locations, not just tropical ones. While there have been novels with him in other locations, it just seems as if the vast majority have him in a sunny beach location and that this allows the Bond Girl to be scantily clad for most of the time.
As with all Bond novels, this was written a while ago and you have to read around some of the offensive language and remember that it was the lingo of that time, even if such words would make us cringe today.
All in all, this was an average Bond novel. Not one of my favorites, but not a bad read either.
My rating: Three out of five snails.
Ian Fleming
Bond embarks on a secret mission to the Bahamas to investigate a "treasure hunt" aboard the Disco Volante, manned by Emilio Largo, otherwise known as SPECTRE's Number 1. Bond crosses paths with Largo's mistress, the gorgeous Domino Vitali, as his mission in paradise leads him deeper into the ranks of SPECTRE and reveals the one man whose skills could rival his own: calm, calculating, and deadly Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The world is suddenly a very dangerous place again.
I have to wonder just how many Bond novels need to take place with Bond and a bombshell in a bikini down in the tropics. Many of these novels involve him in the Bahamas or another tropical location with a barely clad beach bunny. While the first few novels to do this were good, it gets a bit old after a while.
As a spy novel in general, this is fantastic. Ian Fleming knew exactly what he was doing and did his research well. After so many novels, the characters that appear throughout the series are well fleshed out and it feels like the reader knows them personally. However, I'd like to see Bond heading off to different locations, not just tropical ones. While there have been novels with him in other locations, it just seems as if the vast majority have him in a sunny beach location and that this allows the Bond Girl to be scantily clad for most of the time.
As with all Bond novels, this was written a while ago and you have to read around some of the offensive language and remember that it was the lingo of that time, even if such words would make us cringe today.
All in all, this was an average Bond novel. Not one of my favorites, but not a bad read either.
My rating: Three out of five snails.
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