From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story in early 1956 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica; at the time he thought it might be his final Bond book. The novel was first published on 8 April 1957.The story centres on a plot by SMERSH, the Sovietcounter-intelligenceagency, to assassinate Bond in such a way as to discredit both him and his organisation. As bait, the Russians use a beautiful cipher clerk and the Spektor, a Soviet decoding machine. Much of the action takes place inIstanbuland on theOrient Express. The book was inspired by Fleming's visit to Turkey on behalf ofThe Sunday Timesto report on anInterpolconference; he returned to Britain by the Orient Express.From Russia, with Lovedeals with the East-West tensions of theCold War, and the decline of British power and influence in the post-Second World War era.
| ISBN: | 9781479464258 |
| Publication date: | 19th October 2021 |
| Author: | Ian Fleming |
| Publisher: | Distributed By PublishDrive |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |
| Primary Genre | Espionage and spy thriller |
