The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming
The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming
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The Spy Who Loved Me
A James Bond Novel

Author: Ian Fleming

Narrator: Genevieve Gaunt

Unabridged: 5 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/29/2024


Synopsis

JAMES BOND AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFOREUnlike the rest of the books in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, The Spy Who Loved Me is told from the perspective of a woman who fell for 007—and owes him her life.Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the United Kingdom, feels like a foreigner in every land. With only a supercharged Vespa and a handful of American dollars, she travels down winding roads into the pine forests of the Adirondacks. After stopping at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court and being coerced into caretaking at the vacant motel for the night, Viv opens the door to two armed mobsters and realizes being a woman alone is no easy task. But when a third stranger arrives―a confident Englishman with a keen sense for sizing things up―the tables are turned.Still reeling in the wake of Operation Thunderball, Bond had planned for his jaunt through the Adirondacks to be a period of rest before his return to Europe. But that all changes when his tire goes flat in front of a certain motel…

About Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London in 1908. His first job was at Reuters news agency, after which he worked briefly as a stockbroker before working in Naval Intelligence during World War Two. His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and was an instant success. Fleming went on to write thirteen other Bond books as well as two works of nonfiction and the children’s classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Bond books have earned praise from figures such as Raymond Chandler, who called Fleming “the most forceful and driving writer of thrillers in England” and President Kennedy, who named From Russia with Love as one of his favorite books. The books inspired a hugely successful series of film adaptations that began in 1962 with the release of Dr. No. He was married to Ann O'Neill, with whom he had a son, Caspar. He died in 1964.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on June 29, 2023

First published in 1962, the tenth book in the series, completely unlike the movie of the same name, it focuses on a fallen women with a lot of zest, Vivienne Michel crossing the country on her Vespa and falling afoul of some hardnuts in a remote motel. By a freak accident, along comes James Bond. A......more

Goodreads review by Bill on August 05, 2021

Ian Fleming's most unusual James Bond novel is told through the eyes of the fictional character Vivienne Michel. While working & living at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court near the Canadian border she sits & thinks back over her life as a storm approaches. When, over half way through the book, James Bon......more

Goodreads review by Steve on May 20, 2024

The life story of one Vivienne Michel and her meeting with James Bond. Told in the first person by the character Vivienne Michel, this makes it the odd novel out in the canon. Reading the entire series (for a third time), this is the book I've had the biggest change of mind over. I've always consider......more