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Nov 21, 2009
Mike (the Paladin)
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James is in poor shape it seems, 60 cigarettes a day (think of that today...where'd he even find a place to smoke that often?) do not keep the doctor away, oh and he drinks a lot to. So M sends him away on a little vacation to recuperate...again. And of course as seems to happen each time James goes away to rest, someone tries to kill him.
What a life huh?
I enjoyed these adrenaline soaked reads, they do after all have their charms. This one is no less exciting, smothered in cold war paranoia we ...more
What a life huh?
I enjoyed these adrenaline soaked reads, they do after all have their charms. This one is no less exciting, smothered in cold war paranoia we ...more
I just finished "Thunderball" and "The Spy Who Loved Me" over the past two weeks on my way toward re-reading the entire Fleming canon. I have to say what's most attractive about this journey for me is not so much selecting a favorite Fleming, but observing in one fell swoop (so to speak) how Fleming improves as a writer and becomes more comfortable with his main character. Next title on my list is, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", the Bond novel I've been anticpating most.
So after Fleming, wh ...more
So after Fleming, wh ...more
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