Live and Let Die: Read the second gripping unforgettable James Bond novel (James Bond 007, 2)

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Not much else is revealed in the opening chapter, but we have already been introduced to a warmer, more approachable James Bond than we saw in Casino Royale.

Book is in Very Good Minus condition, boards a bit rubbed and marked, gilt dulled, small brown mark to top of front end-paper. The book is bound in the publisher's black cloth and is in great shape with minor wear to the spine. His sentiments about New York are those shared by Fleming himself, and they’re not all that flattering, at one point mentioning the “hooting, teeming, petrol-smelling roots of the stressed-concrete jungle. No inscriptions, contents clean, edges slightly toned, gilt still bright (often tarnished), jacket lightly worn with one tear and associated crease to upper. Live and Let Die isn't always the white-knuckled thriller that Casino Royale was, but it's a solid book.Mr Big is described as being intellectually brilliant, [38] with a "great football of a head, twice the normal size and very nearly round" and skin which was "grey-black, taut and shining like the face of a week-old corpse in the river". Neat contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf, gilt on covers tarnished, some abrasion to top edge of rear panel; jacket otherwise bright and fresh. The dust jacket has strong vibrant colors with No rips, No chips, No edgewear, No tears, No stains, No fading and No foxing. I have to say I really enjoyed reading about Bond and Felix Leiter enjoying the nightlife in Harlem.

It was adapted into the eighth official film in the EON Productions Bond franchise and the first to star Roger Moore as British Secret Service agent, Commander James Bond. Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series of stories, and is set in London, the United States and Jamaica.

Live and Let Die continues the theme Fleming examined in Casino Royale, that of evil or, as Fleming's biographer, Andrew Lycett, describes it, "the banality of evil". This volume is in very good plus condition with a tight binding that has a slight lean, bright lettering on the spine, mild foxing to the pages, and some minor discoloration to the paste downs and free papers. The words ‘negro’ and ‘negress’ were mentioned matter of factly in the first five pages, so it was pretty clear early on the sort of language and descriptions that were going to be used. Panek, in his examination of 20th century British spy novels, Live and Let Die was a departure from the "gentleman crook" that appeared in much earlier literature, as the intellectual and organisational skills of Mr Big were emphasised, rather than the behavioural. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realized that Big is one of the most dangerous men that he has ever faced.