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PJMcK

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28. Excellent cautionary tale

Thu Feb 22, 2024, 10:23 AM

Feb 2024

Yeah, Fleming tried to kill Bond when Rosa Kleb kicked him with her spiked and poisoned shoe.

But, like Sherlock Holmes, Bond survived.

One of the best Bond novels is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service where Blofeld plans to cripple the British economy by using biological agents to destroy crops and herds. It’s an entirely plausible terroristic plot! Sadly, the film is rather lame.

By the way, there are more novels and stories featuring James Bond by other writers than those written by Fleming.

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