British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to meet with Corporal Tatiana Romanova, a Soviet intelligence operative who claims to want to defect, and offers a valuable decoding machine as a show of good will. Unfortunately, for Bond, she is a plant, part of a SMERSH operation aiming to have him killed.
James Bond is one of the most iconic characters in 20th-century literature. In addition to the 12 novels and 9 short stories written by Ian Fleming, there have been over 40 novels and short stories written about the spy by other authors, and 26 films produced, starring actors such as Sean Connery and Daniel Craig as 007.
Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved. Ian Fleming was a British author who served as an intelligence officer in the navy, an experience that he would use as the basis for the super-spy James Bond.
