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For Your Eyes Only is five Bonds for the price of one, showing Fleming equally at home with the short story as he was over the long haul. Related themes appear across the collection--domestic abuse, just revenge--but these are stories for reading in their own right.
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From a View to a Kill has Bond in Paris, outsmarting both the bad guys and the other European intelligence services to solve a murder mystery centred on stolen NATO documents. Cold-blooded murder aside, this is a gentle and engrossing story with some fine descriptive touches by Fleming.
In For Your Eyes Only itself, Bond is on an M-instigated revenge mission in the wilds of Canada and Vermont. Notable for its account of his enemy stalking and unexpected rendezvous with the beautiful Judy Havelock, For Your Eyes Only also portrays closely the relationship between Bond and M, whose inertia over the correct course of action Bond resolves: "It had come to the point where justice ought to be done ... But M was thinking, is this justice or is it revenge? M wanted someone else, Bond, to deliver judgement".
Quantum of Solace is a brief but diverting oddity in which Bond barely moves from his seat. The story is an after-dinner tale of human cruelty told by his host--probably prompted by his preconceptions of Bond's work--which elicits the response, "It's extraordinary how much people can hurt each other." After this interlude, Risico picks up the pace with a heroin smuggling, vendetta-inspired rollercoaster set against an Italian backdrop.
In the final story, The Hildebrand Rarity, Bond finds himself in deep water on a fishing expedition when emotional and physical violence lead to another "justified" murder which Bond covers up. Who committed the crime? Does it matter? This is Bond as agent of natural justice above and beyond institutional law. --Iain Campbell
"Mr Fleming’s licensed assassin is in good form... Few men can have been able to mix business with pleasure so successfully as Bond" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Exotic, resilient and potent" (Kirkus)
"Urbane savagery and mighty smooth tale spinning" (New York Herald Tribune)
"Good juicy violence... the girls as wild and luscious as ever" (The Times)
"Exotic, resilient and potent" (Kirkus)
"Urbane savagery and mighty smooth tale spinning" (New York Herald Tribune)
"Good juicy violence... the girls as wild and luscious as ever" (The Times)
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- PublisherHarperCollins Distribution Services
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0586045961
- ISBN 13 9780586045961
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. Five Secret Occasions in the Life of JAMES BOND 007 *** Includes; From a View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Quantum of Solace, Risico, the Hildebrand Rarity & Quantum of Solace;
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good / Very Good. GGA {Good Girl Art} PHOTO Cove; (illustrator). Reprint Edition. 191 Pages. CONTAINS - Five secret occasions in the life of James Bond, containing; From a View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Quantum of Solace, Risico, the Hildebrand Rarity & Quantum of Solace; "James Bond. pits his devastating wiles and deadly charm against the most bizarre fiends he's ever encountered in these high-voltage exploits taken direct from the files of Ian Fleming." >> Cover depicted James Bond hold a rifle, with sexy lady beind him, background is red.>> VERY RARE IN THIS EDITION.>> Cover creaisng & indents; name in pen to interior front cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 12931-28
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