The Spy Who Loved Me
Ian Fleming
Johnathan Cape 1964 First Edition 6th Printing
221-page hardcover with new facsimile first edition jacket
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Set apart from the other books in Ian Fleming’s James Bond
series, The Spy Who Loved Me is told from the perspective of a femme fatale in
the making―a victim of circumstance with a wounded heart.
Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the
United Kingdom, seems a foreigner in every land. With only a supercharged Vespa
and a handful of American dollars, she travels down winding roads into the pine
forests of the Adirondacks. After stopping at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court and
being coerced into caretaking at the vacant motel for the night, Viv opens the
door to two armed mobsters and realizes being a woman alone is no easy task.
But when a third stranger shows―a confident Englishman with a keen sense for
sizing things up―the tables are turned.
Still reeling in the wake of Operation Thunderball, Bond had
planned for his jaunt through the Adirondacks to be a period of rest before his
return to Europe. But that all changes when his tire goes flat in front of a
certain motel…