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On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the tenth novel and eleventh book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 1 April 1963.
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He is thinking about his resignation from Her Majesty's secret service when he meets a mysterious young lady who triggers him into a protective hero. With her attempt at suicide James Bond starts a chain of events that will end the book in a personal drama for James Bond 007 and sets the mood for the third book.
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For more than a year, James Bond, British secret agent 007, has been trailing the private criminal organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in 'Operation Bedlam'. This pursuit is partially described in The Spy Who Loved Me, where Bond explains to Vivienne Michel the aftermath of 'Operation Thunderball' and the escape of Blo...
The book was the first James Bond novel published after the start of the official film series. In tribute, Fleming mentions Dr. No co-star Ursula Andress by name in one chapter, describing her as a...Ian Fleming often visited Kitzbühel in Austria to ski and learn German during the 1930's. During one of his trips, he deliberately caused a small avalanche and raced it to the bottom of the hill. T...Additionally, he would occasionally stay at the sports club of Schloss Mittersill in the Austrian Alps; in 1940 the Nazis closed down the club and turned it into a research establishment. It was th...The 2021 film, No Time to Die incorporated elements from the 1969 film adaptation of OHMSS, most strikingly the phrase, "We have all the time in the world" which originated in the novel. The Bond f...Ian Fleming's 1963 novel was adapted as a daily comic strip published in the British Daily Expressnewspaper, and syndicated worldwide. Possibly the longest James Bond novel adaptation, the strip ran for nearly a year, from June 29, 1964 to May 17, 1965. The adaptation, which revived the comic strip after a two-year hiatus, was written by Henry Gamm...
Caroline Munro, who had a small role in 1967's Casino Royale and played Naomi in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me, was one of the models hired to pose for the cover of the 1969 Pan Books paperback edition, along with Jenny Hanley, who played one of Blofeld's Angels of Deathin the film. Hanley's image was also included on Signet Books' film tie-in editio...
Mar 19, 2024 · On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: A James Bond Novel (James Bond, 11) Paperback – March 19, 2024. by Ian Fleming (Author) 4.5 2,478 ratings. Book 11 of 14: James Bond (Original Series) See all formats and editions. BOND VS BLOFELD.
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Sep 2, 2003 · When Bond rescues a beautiful, reckless girl from self-destruction, he finds himself with a lead on one of the most dangerous men in the world—Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.
Jan 6, 2015 · British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, travels to Switzerland on the tail of Ernst Blofeld, the leader of the terrorist group SPECTRE. Bond finds...
It was a girl driving, a girl with a shocking pink scarf tied round her hair. And if there was one thing that set James Bond really moving, it was being passed at speed by a pretty girl. When...
