From Russia With Love [James Bond #5] by Ian Fleming [1980 PAPERBACK] • Jove

From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming [James Bond #5]

VINTAGE PAPERBACK RE-ISSUE [1980] JOVE BOOKS

Scarce 1st Jove mass market printing w/ great cover illustration.

Perfect vintage reading copy with some light wear to cover.  Otherwise, clean tight and reads good as new.

In Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel, Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller. It's the novel that President John F. Kennedy named as one of his favourite books of all time.

SMERSH stands for ‘Death to Spies’ and there’s no secret agent they’d like to disgrace and destroy more than 007, James Bond. But ensnaring the British Secret Service’s most lethal operative will require a lure so tempting even he can’t resist. Enter Tatiana Romanova, a ravishing Russian spy whose ‘defection’ springs a trap designed with clockwork precision.

Her mission: seduce Bond, then flee to the West on the Orient Express. Waiting in the shadows are two of Ian Fleming’s most vividly drawn villains: Red Grant, SMERSH’s deadliest assassin, and the sinister operations chief Rosa Klebb - five feet four inches of pure killing power.