For Your Eyes Only
$ 18.00
Author: Ian Fleming
Publisher: Signet D2054
Year: 1964 Print: 14 Cover Price: $.50
Condition: Book Grades. Very Good Plus. Light wear
Genre: Fiction/Espionage
Pages: 143
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Unlike previous full-length James Bond novels, this book compiles five independent missions and vignettes that offer a deeper, more self-reflective look into 007's character.
- From a View to a Kill: Bond goes undercover in the French countryside to investigate the murder of a NATO motorcycle dispatch-rider, ultimately exposing a hidden underground spy ring.
- For Your Eyes Only: In the title story, M sends Bond on an unofficial, off-the-books assassination mission to avenge the murder of M’s close friends in Jamaica. While tracking the target near the US-Canadian border, Bond teams up with the victims' daughter, Judy Havelock, who is seeking her own bow-and-arrow retribution.
- Quantum of Solace: A departure from typical spy action, this story takes place at a dinner party in the Bahamas. The local Governor tells Bond a tragic story about a failing marriage, prompting Bond to reflect on human cruelty and the comparative emptiness of his own violent life.
- Risico: Bond is sent to Italy to dismantle a massive heroin smuggling operation. He is forced to navigate a deceptive web of informants to figure out who is the real villain and who is the lesser of two evils.
- The Hildebrand Rarity: While on a marine expedition in the Seychelles to find a rare fish, Bond finds himself trapped on a yacht with an abusive American millionaire. When the millionaire is found murdered, Bond is drawn into an old-fashioned murder mystery at sea where everyone has a secret.
