![]() ![]() It was covered with red-gold curls that should have reminded her pleasantly of the formalized hair of classical statues. The novel opens with him being massaged by a young woman repulsed by his almost perfection: “She wondered why she loathed this splendid body…She looked down at the round, smallish head on the sinewy neck. Not in the novel: “Unspeakable things were whispered about this woman…It was said that Rosa Klebb would let no torturing take place without her.”ĭonovan Grant, Chief Executioner of Smersh, is no cartoon villain either. You’ve seen the film with Sean Connery fighting off the tiny evil Rosa Klebb with her stabby poison shoes. Published in 1957, it concerns a plot launched by sinister Soviet agency Smersh to kill Bond. From Russia with Love is one of Fleming’s finest. Just a bit – this is genre fiction albeit brilliantly crafted. ![]() ![]() “We get the big opening scene then a casino then a car chase and on it goes. “The films have become increasingly silly and stylised,” says Simon from Foyles. After his doctor advised him to stop drinking a bottle of gin a day he switched to bourbon ‘for health reasons’. Sadly, we never learn the secret of his tolerance – perhaps all the bad guys as just as drunk as him.Ĭertainly Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, liked a tipple. But he sky-dives and fights and shoots and lusts as if not one martini has ever passed his chiselled lips. It’s a wonder Bond manages to get anything done with all his drinking. ![]()
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