What’s the best James Bond book? Don Wallace makes a compelling case for this stylishly kitschy one
‘From Russia, with Love,’ Ian Fleming’s magnum of espionage kitsch, is a guaranteed escape. For the highest-yield diversion, read the book first, then stream the movie.SOMEWHERE, a thousand confinement novels are being written.
But why wait when we already have “From Russia, With Love,” starring James Bond and a stealth killer trapped inside a train compartment? For readers, escape is guaranteed: author Ian Fleming’s 1957 page-turner veers from wondrous to ghastly in a sentence. In what’s likely the novel’s best-remembered scene, Bond watches a Bulgarian hit man exit his lair through the billboard-poster mouth of Marilyn Monroe .
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