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tome 6 dr No

série:	Polar/Bond
éditeur:	Pan Books
auteur:	Fleming Ian
classement:	carton 42
année:	1965
format:	broché
état:	TBE
valeur:	6 €
critère:	*
remarques:	English book dr. No is the sixth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his British Secret Service agent James Bond 007. Fleming wrote the novel in early 1957 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, it was first published in the United Kingdom, the novel centres on Bond's investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of two fellow MI6 operatives, he establishes that they had been investigating Doctor No, a Chinese-German operator of a guano mine on the fictional Caribbean island of Crab Key, Bond travels to the island and meets Honeychile Rider and later Doctor No. the book's eponymous villain was influenced by Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu stories, the story was adapted in 1962 as the first film in the Bond series, with Sean Connery in the lead role plot after recovering from serious poisoning inflicted by the SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb (in From Russia, with Love), 007 is sent by his superior, M, on an undemanding mission to the British colony of Jamaica with the help of an old friend, Quarrel, Bond surreptitiously visits Crab Key to establish whether there is a connection between No and the disappearance of the MI6 personnel, Bond and Quarrel meet Honeychile Rider (Ursula Andress in the film) who is there to collect valuable shells, Bond Honeychile are captured by No's men after Quarrel is burned to death by the doctor's "dragon", a flamethrowing, armoured swamp buggy designed to keep away trespassers, Bond and Honey are taken to a luxurious facility carved into the mountain Dr. No, a sinister recluse with mechanical pincers for hands and a sadistic fascination with pain, holds James Bond firmly in his steely grasp, interested in the ability of the human body to withstand and survive pain, No forces Bond to navigate his way through an obstacle course constructed in the facility's ventilation system, Bond is kept under observation as he suffers electric shocks, burns and an encounter with large, venomous spiders, Bond's ordeal ends in a fight with a captive giant squid, which he defeats by using improvised weapons After his escape he encounters Rider, who had been pegged out to be eaten by crabs, they had ignored her and she managed to escape Bond kills No by taking over the guano- loading machine at the docks and diverting the flow of guano to bury him alive, Bond and Honeychile then escape from No's complex in the "dragon" buggy, sail back to Jamaica and notify the colonial authorities >> p. 54 then it was quite quiet again >> p. 134 dr No investing in stamps >> p. 143 Dr No being a maniac and Russia being implicated in Dr No's plans to control a US rocket base in Turk island >> p. 173 to shoot a dog and the whole pack of dogs will stop to eat him >> p. 185 Honeychile washed Bond down as if he had been a horse >> a naive but imaginative book which is of course no literary novel but written in a plain slang domestic narration n.b. the end of the novel is different as from the movie and less spectacular but both ends are à la 007 enclosures - cover 1965 Pan Book - first cover of Dr No book - a roseate spoonbill - further cover of Dr No book
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