From Russia, with Love, published in 1957, is the fifth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming and is considered one of the best in the series; the 1963 film version has been cited by several critics as the best of the film series. Initially, the novel was not a bestseller in the United States of America, but sales quickly jumped when an article in Life Magazine on March 17, 1961, listed From Russia With Love as one of U.S. President John F. Ken...
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From Russia, with Love, published in 1957, is the fifth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming and is considered one of the best in the series; the 1963 film version has been cited by several critics as the best of the film series. Initially, the novel was not a bestseller in the United States of America, but sales quickly jumped when an article in Life Magazine on March 17, 1961, listed From Russia With Love as one of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's ten favorite books.
From Russia with Love differs from Fleming's previous Bond novels in that the first third of the novel revolves around SMERSH executioner Red Grant, as well as the organization, SMERSH itself. (Bond himself is not mentioned by name until the end of Chapter 5, and does not actually make an appearance until Part 2 of the novel commences with Chapter 11.)
The novel is a series of elaborate plots and counterplots between the British and the Russian intelligence agencies. It begins with SMERSH, the Soviet...
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