Casino Royal Ian Fleming

Publisher: A Signet Book Published by The New American Library"

;Edition:Eleventh PrintingYear: 23285";Description: NF, 144 pp.; First pubished by Jonathan Cape on April 13, 1953.; owner name stamped on first free page; Casino Royal is English author Ian Fleming's first novel published in 1953. Fleming was born into the Fleming family, a rich English banking family. He served as a British Intelligence Officer during WWII. After the war he retired, bought his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica and began to write full time. Several months before his wedding to Ann Fleming during 1952 he wrote Casino Royale. In this first novel 007 (license to kill) British agent James Bond engages Le Chiffre, banker to international terrorists, in high stakes poker in Montenegro. Bond is assisted by Vesper Lynd another M.1.6 agent, the British Secret Intelligence Service and Felix Leiter American CIA agent.---Wikipedia; Made into a Hollywood movie( 2006) directed by Martin Campbell starring Daniel Craig as James Bond, Eva Green as Vesper Lynd, and Jeffery Leight as Felix Leiter.; Ian Fleming b.1908 - d.1964;Author: Ian Fleming