Hot on the heels of '
Diamonds are Forever' comes Ian Fleming's tenth Bond book, '
The Spy Who Loved Me'. Written from a female perspective, this AudioGo CD version was read by
Rosamund Pike (Miranda Frost in Die Another Day fact fans!)
In an isolated American motel, the Dreamy Pines Motor Court, Vivienne Michel is alone with
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'The Spy Who Loved Me' by
Ian Fleming and read by Rosamund Pike
(AudioGo, 2012) |
nothing but thoughts of her past disappointments - bitter love affairs, faded career prospects, shattered dreams. Nursing her wounds and in search of a fresh start, she's begun a cross country journey that she hopes will lead to something new, something better. But fate has other ideas. With the arrival of two terrifying psychopathic gangsters, Vivienne finds herself caught up in a deadly criminal plot and Dreamy Pines begins to turn into a nightmare beyond anything she could have imagined...
Oh. My. Goodness. '
The Spy Who Loved Me' is far and away the most visceral, hard hitting and haunting of all the Bond novels I've read to date. People often talk about being on the edge of their seat and in this instance it was not a metaphor. At the end of every disc, I was finding I was about to topple off my chair and I couldn't get the next CD into the player quickly enough. Perhaps it was to do with the narrator - Mr Fleming does an unexpectedly good job writing from the female perspective, while Ms Pike is fantastic, her performance expertly drawing you into Vivienne's rapidly shrinking and increasingly threatening world. I felt like I was in the room with her, a helpless bystander watching as the horrors unfolded, praying for someone to come and help her.
This is the first Bond novel that I know I definitely want to read again. '
The Spy Who Loved Me' is a chilling, taut, suspenseful thriller of the first order and I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who enjoys the genre.
Now, what next...?
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