num_pages: 256
description: Ian Fleming. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, [1961].First edition. Octavo. 253 pages.Black cloth blind-stamped on front cover with a skeletal hand and lettered with gilt on spine. Original pictorial dust jacket with original price of 15s net on front flap.Thunderball is the 9th novel by Ian Fleming based on the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. Fleming wrote it intending to film it; it is officially credited as 'based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham &amp; Ian Fleming', a controversial shared credit that was the result of a courtroom decision. The novel was 1st published on 3/27/1961 &amp; is technically the 1st novelisation of a James Bond screenplay, tho when written &amp; published, the film had yet to be produced—&amp; when it was, the screenplay was rewritten by others. James Bond takes on the most outrageously daring adversary he's ever encountered: SPECTRE. This gang of super criminals has gotten hold of two atomic weapons and plans to use them for blackmail on a world scale. If the Prime Minister of England and the President of the United States do not meet its terms, SPECTRE will drop the bombs, one by one.
language: English
title: Thunderball
titlecomplete: Thunderball (James Bond, #9)
characters: Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Emilio Largo, Dominetta Vitali, Patricia Fearing, M, Miss Moneypenny, James Bond, Felix Leiter
genres: Fiction, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Spy Thriller, Espionage, Audiobook
ratings_count: 16156
places: Paris, Sussex, England, Bahamas, London, England
series: James Bond - Extended Series, James Bond (Original Series)
publisher:  London: Jonathan Cape