Waiting in the shadows are two of Ian Fleming’s most vividly drawn villains: Red Grant, SMERSH’s deadliest assassin, and the sinister operations chief Rosa Klebb - five feet four inches of pure killing power.īursting with action and intrigue, 'From Russia with Love' is one of the best-loved books in the Bond canon, an instant classic that set the standard for sophisticated literary spycraft for decades to come. Her mission: seduce Bond, then flee to the West on the Orient Express. Enter Tatiana Romanova, a ravishing Russian spy whose ‘defection’ springs a trap designed with clockwork precision. Desmond Llewelyn maakte in deze film zijn debuut als Q, de rol die hij in de Bondfilms zou spelen tot zijn dood in 1999.

De film ging in première op 10 oktober 1963 en is gebaseerd op het gelijknamige boek uit 1957. Join our mailing list and well keep you up to date with all the news on Ian Flemings works and legacy, including exclusive events, special editions and exciting competitions. But ensnaring the British Secret Service’s most lethal operative will require a lure so tempting even he can’t resist. From Russia with Love is de tweede James Bondfilm geproduceerd door EON Productions, met Sean Connery als James Bond. It follows James Bond as he foils the Russian agency SMERSHs attempt to kill him and get him involved. In the opposite direction it references Nikolai Khoklov, a KGB officer who defected in 1954. It contains references to Soviet spies Burgess and Maclean, who defected to the USSR in 1951 and resurfaced there in 1956. SMERSH stands for ‘Death to Spies’ and there’s no secret agent they’d like to disgrace and destroy more than 007, James Bond. From Russia, With Love is a spy thriller by Ian Fleming. From Russia with Love works best as a time-capsule of 1950s post-war Britain and its cold war preoccupations. Kennedy named as one of his favourite books of all time.

James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller.

From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming