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For Your Eyes Only

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For Your Eyes Only is five Bonds for the price of one, showing Fleming equally at home with the short story as he was over the long haul. Related themes appear across the collection–domestic abuse, just revenge–but these are stories for reading in their own right. From a View to a Kill has Bond in Paris, outsmarting both the bad guys and the other European intelligence services to solve a murder mystery centred on stolen NATO documents. Cold-blooded murder aside, this is a gentle and engrossing story with some fine descriptive touches by Fleming. In For Your Eyes Only itself, Bond is on an M-instigated revenge mission in the wilds of Canada and Vermont. Notable for its account of his enemy stalking and unexpected rendezvous with the beautiful Judy Havelock, For Your Eyes Only also portrays closely the relationship between Bond and M, whose inertia over the correct course of action Bond resolves: It had come to the point where justice ought to be done … But M was thinking, is this justice or is it revenge? M wanted someone else, Bond, to deliver judgement. Quantum of Solace is a brief but diverting oddity in which Bond barely moves from his seat. The story is an after-dinner tale of human cruelty told by his host–probably prompted by his preconceptions of Bond’s work–which elicits the response, It’s extraordinary how much people can hurt each other. After this interlude, Risico picks up the pace with a heroin smuggling, vendetta-inspired rollercoaster set against an Italian backdrop. In the final story, The Hildebrand Rarity, Bond finds himself in deep water on a fishing expedition when emotional and physical violence lead to another justified murder which Bond covers up. Who committed the crime? Does it matter? This is Bond as agent of natural justice above and beyond institutional law. –Iain Campbell

About Author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. He was a grandson of

Author

Ian Fleming

Book Series

James Bond (Original Series)

Format

Ebook

ISBN

9781557731234

Language

English

Pages

148

Publication Date

07-15-1987

Publisher

Vintage

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