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Octopussy and The Living Daylights (sometimes published as Octopussy) is the fourteenth and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming in the Bond series. The book is a collection of short stories published posthumously in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 23 June 1966. The book originally contained two stories, "Octopussy" and "The ...
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Before his death, Ian Fleming reportedly had intended to compile a second book of short stories in the same vein as For Your Eyes Only. After his death, Glidrose Productions followed this plan. Initially, the book contained only two short stories: (i) The final James Bond short story to be published, "Octopussy" (with agent 007 in a minor role), wh...
At the start of You Only Live Twice, Bond complains about the meaningless assignments he had undertaken since the death of his wife, Tracy, at the end of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It has been suggested that the stories in this collection may well have taken place during this dark period of Bond's career; the mention of Mary Goodnight in "The...
Two of Fleming's short stories were adapted as daily James Bond comic strips which were published in the British Daily Expressnewspaper and syndicated worldwide. 1. "The Living Daylights" ran from September 12 to November 12, 1966, adapted by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Yaroslav Horak. 2. "Octopussy" ran from November 14, 1966 to May 27, 1967, ...
The 14th and final Bond book by originator Fleming, this follows the 1960 publication of For Your Eyes Only as a collection of short stories. This edition has four stories – “Octopussy”, “The Living Daylights”, “Property of a Lady” and “007 in New York”. What readers of the Bond stories will discern as compared to the popular ...
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The last collection of James Bond adventures from Ian Fleming published in 1966, Octopussy and The Living Daylights features four tales of intrigue that push 007 to the limit and find the secret agent questioning where he can go from there…. In ‘Octopussy,’ a former operative in the Second World War must face the consequences of past sins ...
Octopussy and The Living Daylights (sometimes published as Octopussy) is the fourteenth and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming in the Bond series. The book is a collection of short stories published posthumously in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 23 June 1966. It served as a postscript to his James Bond canon. The book originally contained just two stories, "Octopussy" and ...
Octopussy and The Living Daylights. They were written by 007’s creator before his death and are published here in book form for the first time. is set in Fleming’s favourite pleasure paradise, Jamaica in the British West Indies. takes place in, what is for Fleming, a new kind of locale: the border territory that divides East and West Berlin.
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These four short stories, Octopussy, Property Of A Lady, The Living Daylights and 007 In New York, the last that Ian Fleming wrote, were so much better than I expected. This was my first encounter with Bond outside of the movies and it works really well as an audiobook.
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