Fleming, Ian

British secret agent James Bond embarks on a mission to ruin a Russian operative, le Chiffre, at the Baccarat table, so that his Soviet spymasters will kill him, and Bond will succeed with a little luck at the tables and the help of a beautiful woman.

Presents five short stories that find James Bond facing all sorts of danger from which he escapes through fast thinking and keen wit.

A routine mission pits James Bond against the evil Dr. No, a ruthless and power-mad genius.

Bond uses a beautiful nemesis in order to infiltrate a diamond-smuggling business that stretches from Africa via London to America, but once inside the states, he becomes the hunted instead of the hunter.

Two children persuade their father, an inventor, to purchase and restore an old car which turns out to have magical powers.

Agent 007, otherwise known as James Bond, sets out to battle the agents of S.M.E.R.S.H., the Soviet organization of torture, vengeance, interrogation and death.

Two children persuade their father, an inventor, to purchase and restore an old car which turns out to have magical powers.