About this title: When Ernst Stavro Blofeld threatens global safety, James Bond must save the world, save his country, and as he pledged, save the Queen.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1963
ISBN-13:9780451154323ISBN:0451154320
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover is bent lower right hand corner but pages are clear. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780451137074ISBN:0451137078
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Pages & cover tanned with age. Cover is soiled, creased at spine with no tears. SYNOPSIS: The superlative thriller that pits secret agent James Bond once more against SPECTRE's archfiend Blofeld, architect of a nefarious scheme to destroy the free world. the thriller in which 007 falls in love with the lovely Tracy, daughter of Marc-Ange Draco..." read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: New American Library
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. No Jacket. Text is free of markings, pages are tanning. binding is tight, corners and edges lightly worn. bottom os some pages folded, back cover slightly sticky. read more
"There will be some spoilers here so if you don't want to see them don't read beyond this paragraph. I liked this book and it's well written, and stands up well to most any thriller or drama out there.
Now, for the rest of us.... I know I commented that I didn't care for soap opera, that usually maens to heavy a dependence in a story on personal touchy feely love and tear interests. This however gives us James personal life without "soaping" it up.
James is ready to resign in the opening of this book, frustratred in his failure to find Blofeld and SPECTRE. He's coming to believe that SPECTRE doesn't even exist any more, M however wants him to "stay with it".
Before he can deliver his letter of resignation he saves a suicidal young woman. Bond likes Tracy, and wants to help her but won't marry her. Tracy's father even wants James to marry his daughter. But James doesn't.
Following certain "leads" James is back in the search for Spectre however and the story moves on from there.
Not giving the entire detailed rundown 9afterall you still want to read the book) Bond traces hunts finds and fights. In the end he's about to be killed but is saved.....by Tracy. While recovering James realizes he's in love with Tracy and proposes.
Then Bond mounts an assault and new attempt to caoture (or whatever) Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The "assault" is successful, but Blofeld escapes. As the book closes, Bond's wife Tracey is murdered on their wedding day, by Blofeld's order as vengence in a drive by shooting . The end works. Even as a Teen I was touched by this. This one I think is one where Fleming did some of his best work.
""On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was my first James Bond book, and it was exactly what I had wanted it to be: fast-paced, reasonably well-written, and enjoyable overall. Bond, as a character, was a bit more introspective than I had expected he'd be, and while the book was a touch misogynistic, it wasn't as terribly so as I had feared going in. While the book met my expectations, it never really went beyond them, thus the three-star rating. I'll probably read more Bond books, as this one was fun, but can't see myself becoming a huge Ian Fleming fan."
"Over the summer I re-read all of the Ian Fleming James Bond books in order of their publication date(don't read any of the junk by others who followed Fleming after he died). Mostly I re-read the books because the re-issue paper-backs had such cool covers. The books are a one day read and absolutely a hoot."
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