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. James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me is the official novelization of the 1977 Eon James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, which was itself inspired by the 1962 novel of the same title by Ian Fleming.

But when a third stranger shows?a confident Englishman with a keen sense for sizing things up?the tables are turned. 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. The Spy Who Loved Me was the first James Bond film I saw on the big screen, back in 1977, and it blew me away.

With only a supercharged Vespa and a handful of American dollars, she travels down winding roads into the pine forests of the Adirondacks. Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the United Kingdom, seems a foreigner in every land. Set apart from the other books in Ian Fleming?s James Bond series, The Spy Who Loved Me is told from the perspective of a femme fatale in the making?a victim of circumstance with a wounded heart. The Spy Who Loved Me is a James Bond novel told not from Bonds point of view, but from that of a young woman he comes to help.

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