![]() ![]() ![]() Bond, of course, survives this adventure which, due to credit and rights controversy, was adapted twice to the screen: under the present title in 1965 and as Never Say Never Again in 1983-both times starring Sean Connery in the 1965 film Claudine Auger played Domino, while Kim Basinger played that role in 1983. As he had in From Russia, With Love (1957) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1962), Fleming considered permanently doing away with his super-spy character: "I shall definitely kill off Bond with my next book-better a poor bang than a rich whimper!" (Lycett, 364). ![]() This gave a measure of continuity to the later Bond novels… Thunderball worked well as an adventure story… the theme of the theft of atom bombs seemed pertinent and modern" (Black, 49, 55). " Thunderball represented a new departure, with the introduction of SPECTRE and of Ernst Blofeld, a commanding villain who was to reappear. Octavo, original brown paper boards, original dust jacket.įirst edition of Fleming's ninth Bond novel, featuring the first appearance of the superspy's memorable nemesis, the villainous mastermind behind SPECTRE, Ernst Blofeld, who steals two nuclear warheads and threatens the world. "TO BEGIN WITH HE WAS ASHAMED OF HIMSELF-A RARE STATE OF MIND"įLEMING, Ian. ![]()
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