![]() ![]() Bond’s medical record, which earns him a stay in a health spa – noting that he smokes sixty cigarettes and ingests at least half a bottle of spirits daily – was roughly based on Fleming’s own lifestyle. Bond himself grows in complexity with each novel and here he examines his own choices and mortality, as well as sparing with his CIA counterpart, Felix Leiter.įleming used much of his own background and experience as inspiration for the small details as well as larger plot points. Initially part of Blofeld’s inner circle, fate throws her into Bond’s arms and she proves herself to be a dangerous woman to cross. It introduces one of Ian Fleming’s greatest villains – the nefarious Ernst Stavro Blofeld – and one of his most compelling female characters, Domino, a fierce and beautiful woman with a fondness for the good life. Thunderball is the Bond story that has everything: exotic locations, super villains, thrills, double-crosses and Bond at his sharpest and most capable. ![]() This title in the 007 collectors’ series, the luxurious Thunderball edition, features once again original illustrations and a pictorial slipcase by acclaimed illustrator Fay Dalton. The Folio Society has released their seventh illustrated Ian Fleming novel: Thunderball. ![]()
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