Title: Casino Royale
First published: 1969
Description: Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome, chillingly ruthless and licensed to kill. This, the first of Ian Fleming's tales of secret agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply "le Chiffre" -- by ruining him at the Baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to "retire" him. It seems that lady luck is taken with 007 -- le Chiffre has hit a losing streak. But some people just refuse to play by the rules, and Bond's attraction to a beautiful female agent leads him to disaster and an unexpected savior...
Subjects: British, Fiction, Fiction in English, Intelligence officers, Secret service, Bond, James (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Intelligence service, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Bond, james (fictitious character), fiction, Spy stories, English, English language readers, Fiction, espionage, Great britain, fiction, English literature, Serie:James_Bond, collection:Serie:James_Bond
Places: France, Great Britain, Royale-Les-Eaux (France)
People: James Bond, 007, Felix Leiter, Vesper Lynd, Le Chiffre, René Mathis, M
Time periods: 1950's