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Casino Royale

Where it all begins

Ian Fleming,

First published in 1953

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OVERVIEW

Meet James Bond, the world’s most famous spy.

In the novel that introduces Bond to the world, agent 007 is dispatched to a French casino in Royale-les-Eaux. His mission? Bankrupt a ruthless Russian agent who’s been on a bad luck streak at the baccarat table. Le Chiffre has been a prime target of the British Secret Service for years. If Bond can wipe out his bankroll, Le Chiffre will likely be “retired” by his paymasters in Moscow. But what if the cards won’t cooperate?

Taut, tense, and effortlessly stylish, the inaugural James Bond adventure has all the hallmarks that has made the series a global sensation.

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‘Casino Royale introduces a brand new mystery writer, Briton Ian Fleming, and a hard-shelled British secret service operative, James Bond, who should be prowling the international underground for some books to come’

Time Magazine

‘One of the most original spy thrillers that has ever tickled a jaded palate’

Empire News

‘Mr Fleming’s first novel is an extremely engaging affair…the especial charm of the book is the high poetry with which he invests the green blaize lagoons of the casino tables. Mr Fleming has produced a book that is both exciting and extremely civilized’

The Times Literary Supplement

‘[Casino Royale is] lively, most ingenious in detail, on the surface as tough as they are made and charmingly well-bred beneath’

The Spectator

‘A superb gambling scene, a torture scene which still haunts me, a beautiful girl’

Raymond Chandler

‘Ian Fleming has discovered the secret of narrative art… the reader has to go on reading’

John Betjeman