From Russia with Love - Ian Fleming

'Every major foreign government has a file on James Bond, British secret agent. Now, Russia's deadly SMERSH organization has targeted him for elimination - they have the perfect bait in ravishing agent Tatiana Romanova. Her mission is to lure Bond to Istanbul and seduce him while her superiors handle the rest. But when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double cross ensues - with Bond both the stakes and the prize...' From Russia With Love is the fifth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming and was originally published in 1957. The book begins with the heads of the Soviet intelligence organisations plotting to put one over on their ...  Read the complete review

After the defeat of SMERSH operatives Le Chiffre, Mr. Big and Hugo Drax, head cheese General Grubozaboyschikov, otherwise known as General G., has decided to disgrace British Intelligence once and for all by eliminating and embarassing their top spy and threat to Russia: James Bond. Recruiting their top thinker, the world-renowned chess champion Tov Kronsteen, and the most barbarous of interrogators Rosa Klebb, they come up with a plan to tempt M. and MI6 to send Bond to Instanbul to be ensnared in their little trap. Of course it is a trap, Bond and M. can smell it a mile away, but the temptation of a Russian turncoat called Tatiana Romanova falling ...  Read the complete review