Bond 01 - Casino Royale

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Authors: Ian Fleming

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“Ian Fleming writes with a kind of pushing, bloodcurdling elegance.His thrillers are models of fastidious murder.”—
New York Times

 

“Both exciting and extremely civilized.”—
Times Literary Supplement

 

“From the first evocative words to the last savagely ironic sentence, this is a novel with its own flavor.” —
Sunday Times

 

“Hums with tension.”—
Time

 

“A first-rate thriller...with a breathtaking plot.”—
Manchester Guardian

 

“An extremely engaging affair... exciting and extremely civilized.”—
Times Literary Supplement

 

“It is hard to overestimate the effect James Bond had on post-war readers and audiences.”—Christopher Fowler,
Independent on Sunday

 

“James Bond is a literary brand name par excellence.”—Robert McCrum,
Observer

 

“A superb gambling scene, a torture scene which still haunts me, and, of course, a beautiful girl.”—Raymond Chandler

 

“Mr. Fleming is splendid; he stops at nothing.”—
New Statesman

 

“Our foremost literary magician.”—
New York Herald Tribune

 

“The first part of the book is a brilliant novelette in itself, dealing with the unlikely but imaginative plot to ruin a Communist agent by gambling against him for high stakes.”—
New York Times

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