Agent 007 takes on billionaire Auric Goldfinger, who plans to throw the world economy into a tailspin by contaminating the gold at Fort Knox with nuclear radiation.

"This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of the Bond books and films. Jeremy Black offers a historian's interpretation from the perspective of the late 2010s, assessing James Bond in terms of the greatly changing world order of the Bond years-a lifetime that stretches from 1953, when the first novel appeared, to the present. Black argues that the Bond novels-the Fleming books as well as the...

When a British ship containing a nuclear submarine control system is sunk in foreign waters, Bond rushes to join the search and prevent global devastation.

"Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote. Ian's childhood with his gifted brother Peter and his extraordinary mother set the pattern for his ambition...

Agent 007 must stop a power-mad industrialist who plots to kill millions of people in order to corner the world's microchip supply.

"Este libro único y fascinante celebra cincuenta años de James Bond y lo escribió uno de los 007 más amados de todos los tiempos. Es algo que deben tener los millones de admiradores de Bond de todo el mundo además de los aficionados a las películas." --P. [4] of cover.

The nearest Ian Fleming ever got to being a real secret agent was when he visited the Iberian Peninsula and Tangiers several times during World War II. This was when Fleming devised the sabotage and disruption scheme Operation Golden Eye with Alan Hillgarth, the naval attaché in Madrid. Golden Eye was to be implemented by SIS and SOE teams in the event of the Germans moving into Spain -- whether invited or as invaders. The 007 novels penned by Fleming...

"Shaken & stirred: the feminism of James Bond, the unofficial and independent first chapter in the Bond Girl's evolutionary journey, argues that the character initially served as a different archetype: one that reinforced a traditional, feminine ideal that served as a powerful reactionary symbol against the gender equality movement that gained prominence in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Shaken & stirred: the feminism of James Bond...

"The adventures of James Bond have thrilled readers since Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale was published in 1953, and when the movie of Dr No was released in 1962, Bond quickly became the world's favourite secret agent. Science and technology have always been central to the plots that make up the world of Bond, and in Superspy Science Kathryn Harkup explores the full range of 007's exploits and the arms, technologies, tactics and downfalls of his...