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

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During Bond’s customary visit to headquarters, Miss Moneypenny is reduced to a mere paragraph, really not much different than the last time we read about her. They drive to Ouroboros, passing a plethora of senior citizens along the way, where they find The Robber sitting outside. Due to his fluency in French, he served as an American spy in Marseilles during World War II, but disappeared for five years following the end of the war. This ma

By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Live and Let Die was published in the US in January 1955 by Macmillan; there was only one major change in the book, which was that the title of the fifth chapter was changed from "Nigger Heaven" to "Seventh Avenue".The communist threat was brought home to Jamaica with the 1952 arrest of the Jamaican politician Alexander Bustamante by the American authorities while he was on official business in Puerto Rico, despite the fact that he was avowedly anti-communist.

This is a great line from Fleming – ‘In front of his eyes, the rain came down in swift, slanting strokes – italic script across the unopened black cover that hid the secret hours that lay head. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There’s a fun section across p24-25 where Leiter gives Bond a reminder of how to be American, talking about asking for the ‘check’ rather than the ‘bill’, and ‘cab’ v ‘taxi’ etc. Contents and page edges clean, gilt remains very bright (often discoloured), jacket a little browned to rear panel, some light wear to crown and with a neat, historic repair to one small area at upper edge. Publisher's indigo blue hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with author's initials in gilt to cover, plain black endpapers.Dust jacket with some minor chipping to the corners and spine ends, small closed tear on the top edges, light tanning.