Assignment -- Mara Tirana
She stood between Sam Durell and his grim search for a U.S. space pilot, downed behind the Iron Curtain
The Best Of The Worst
She stood between Sam Durell and his grim search for a U.S. space pilot, downed behind the Iron Curtain
She's the swingin'est secret agent that ever changed into something more comfortable than a trench coat!
Secret Agent James Bond's most hazardous assignment -- a spectacular gamble with fate
Another Great Pan cover can be seen in this collection
Agent 0008 Dives Into The Voluptuous Peril Of... The Merciless Mermaids
Sam Durell pushes the panic button in a hunt for a portrait that can bring on World War III
The complete set of Ian Fleming's James Bond, as published in 2002 by Penguin.
via Greg McCambley
Dear Mom:
Trouble? Who me? Just another would-be world dictator, and that guy who stole my face...
Hastily,
Stave
She Played A Man's Game With A Woman's Weapons
Yes, that Casino Royale.When the debut Bond novel was first published in America, it was thought that the original title was inappropriate for American readers.
The company’s marketing geniuses griped that the name Casino Royale wasn’t sufficiently saleable. (“Apparently, it was feared that American readers would not be able to pronounce ‘Royale,’” quips a piece at CommanderBond.net). They wanted something different, a replacement that was more in keeping with the tough-guy stories then flooding U.S. bookstores. “Fleming’s suggestions for a new title, The Double-O Agent and The Deadly Gamble, were disregarded,” Wikipedia recalls, “in favor of You Asked for It. The novel was subtitled ‘Casino Royale’ and made reference to secret agent 007 as ‘Jimmy Bond’ on the back cover”
From the back:
If he hadn't been a tough operator, Jimmy Bond would never have risked a weekend with a woman who used her magnificent body as a weapon to destroy him...
But it was toughness that had landed Jimmy his job with the Secret Service -- the job of smashing the ruthless Le Chiffre and his spy network -- no matter how many women tried to stop him...
She Used Men As Stepping Stones To Fame
From the back:
From Street Girl To Society Lady
Set in the heyday of the American Revolution, this is a racy, exciting tale about a saucy young strumpet who blackmailed her way into a respectable Colonial family... Married to a wealthy English Lord... Spied on the Tories for General George Washington... And finally fell in love with a dashing woodsman all in one fabulous career that took her from the depths of London's slums to the heights of Colonial American society.