Thunderball (James Bond Novels) by Ian Fleming
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Book Reviews of Thunderball (James Bond Novels)
Book Review: Wonderful fiction that is still relevant today!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the first of the three James Bond novels that feature the nefarious Ernst Blofield and Spectre as the villains. The plot is ingenious, and still has relevance for today's world, alas. This novel proceeds at a brisk pace throughout, and always succeeds in holding the reader's interest.
Author Ian Fleming has a spare, lean style of writing that I find very appealing. Unlike today's often bloated thousand-plus page novels, "Thunderball," in common with all of Fleming's work, manages to tell a fairly complicated and always-interesting story in as few words as possible. This style of writing maintains the mystery of what really makes the enigmatic James Bond tick, and of course, this question is half of the fun of these excellent spy novels.
Highly recommended.
Book Review: The first appearance of SPECTRE
Summary: 4 Stars
Two atomic bombs disappear and the free world gets a blackmail letter. Cough up 100,000,000 British Pounds in gold or lots of people and lots of property is going to be destroyed. Now James Bond must use all his skill and luck to found the bombs, defeat SPECTRE and safe the world. And of course, get the girl.
I happen to think SPECTRE, Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion is the best invention in any novel EVER. SMERSH is nothing when compared to SPECTRE. Cold, logic and calm, they make the greatest enemy Bond will ever have.