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]]> https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/on-his-majestys-secret-service-2/ Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/on-his-majestys-secret-service-2/ It’s the 4th of May, two days before the (actual) coronation of King Charles the 3rd and the world’s favourite spy has his work cut out for him. Bond is sent at the last minute to thwart an attempt to disrupt the coronation by the wealthy, eccentric and self-styled Aethelstan of Wessex, who is on a deadly mission of his own to teach the United Kingdom a lesson. Can Bond dismantle his shady plans and defeat his privately-hired team of mercenaries?

]]> https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/on-his-majestys-secret-service/ Thu, 04 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/on-his-majestys-secret-service/ It’s the 4th of May, two days before the (actual) coronation of King Charles the 3rd and the world’s favourite spy has his work cut out for him. Bond is sent at the last minute to thwart an attempt to disrupt the coronation by the wealthy, eccentric and self-styled Athelstan of Wessex, who is on a deadly mission of his own to teach the United Kingdom a lesson. Can Bond dismantle his shady plans and defeat his privately-hired team of mercenaries?

]]> https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/on-her-majestys-secret-service-2/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/on-her-majestys-secret-service-2/ In the aftermath of Operation Thunderball, Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s trail has gone cold-and so has 007’s love for his job. The only thing that can rekindle his passion is Contessa Teresa ‘Tracy’ di Vicenzo, a troubled young woman who shares his taste for fast cars and danger. She’s the daughter of a powerful crime boss, and he thinks Bond’s hand in marriage may be the solution to all her problems. Bond’s not ready to settle down-yet-but he soon finds himself falling for the enigmatic Tracy. After finally tracking the SPECTRE chief to a stronghold in the Swiss Alps, Bond uncovers the details of Blofeld’s latest plot: a biological warfare scheme more audacious than anything the fiend has tried before. Now Bond must save the world once again – and survive Blofeld’s last, very personal, act of vengeance. ‘We’ve got all the time in the world…’

]]> https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/diamonds-are-forever-2/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/diamonds-are-forever-2/ An international diamond-smuggling pipeline has opened up and the British Treasury wants to know who’s controlling it. Impersonating a captured courier named Peter Franks, Bond infiltrates the criminal ring and finds an unlikely ally in Tiffany Case. As the ring’s stateside go-between, she may be just another link in the chain, but Tiffany is also Bond’s best shot at finding the elusive figure at the head of the operation – a syndicate boss known only by the initials ‘ABC.’ But if Bond’s cover gets blown, he’ll find that the only thing harder than a diamond is surviving the payback of a pair of murderous henchmen. With a sparkling trail of smuggled gems as bait, Diamonds Are Forever leads Bond on a globe-hopping mission where deadly assassins lurk behind every corner.

]]> https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/moonraker-2/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/moonraker-2/ As the super patriot and war veteran who’s bankrolling Britain’s top-secret Moonraker rocket program, Sir Hugo Drax should be above reproach. But there’s more to this enigmatic millionaire than he lets on. When M suspects Drax of cheating at cards in an exclusive gentleman’s club, he sends Bond in to investigate. But exposing the deception only enrages Drax – and now 007 must outwit an angry man with the power to loose a nuclear warhead on London. The mysterious death of the head of security at Drax’s missile base gives Bond the perfect opportunity to go undercover to find out the secret agenda of the supposed British war hero. With the help of another agent, the lustrous Gala Brand, 007 learns the truth about Drax’s battle scars, his wartime allegiances – and his murderous plans for the deployment of Moonraker.

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]]> https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-spy-who-loved-me-2/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-spy-who-loved-me-2/ 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. Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the United Kingdom, seems 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 shows – 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…

]]> https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/live-and-let-die/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/live-and-let-die/ James Bond is not a superstitious man, but it’s hard not to feel unnerved in the presence of Mr. Big. A ruthless Harlem gangster who uses voodoo to control his criminal empire, he’s also one of SMERSH’s top American operatives. Mr. Big has been smuggling British pirate treasure to New York from a remote Jamaican island – and funneling the proceeds to Moscow. With help from Solitaire, Mr. Big’s beautiful and enigmatic Creole fortune-teller, and his old friend Felix Leiter, 007 must locate the crime lord’s hideout, sabotage his operation, and reclaim the pirate hoard for England. From the jazz joints of Harlem to the shark-infested waters of the Florida Everglades, Live and Let Die sends Bond headlong into the exotic.

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