Dr. No

To MI6-agenter er blevet myrdet på den britiske koloni Jamaica, mens de efterforskede en mystisk kinesisk mineejer, som kaldes Dr. No. James Bond bliver sendt til Jamaica for at færdiggøre agenternes mission og derved finde frem til deres morder. Der går imidlertid ikke lang tid, før James Bond finder ud af, at hans fjender er klar over, hvem han er, og at de allerede prøver at komme ham til livs. Der skal mere til at stoppe agent 007 i at finde frem til sandheden om agenternes død og at løfte sløret for Dr. Nos dystre hemmeligheder.James Bond er velsagtens den mest kendte hemmelige agent i verden. Hans skaber, Ian Fleming, skrev kun 14 bøger om ham, men andre forfattere har sidenhen skrevet langt flere bøger om den hårdtslående og udødelige agent. Fortællingerne om agent 007 og hans kamp mod alverdens superskurke har opnået enorm popularitet verden over, både som bøger og film. Den første filmatisering af en Bond-bog, "Dr. No", fik premiere i 1962 med Sean Connery i hovedrollen som agent 007. Siden har mange forskellige af Storbritanniens største skuespillere spillet rollen som James Bond.Den engelske forfatter Ian Fleming (1908-1964) er bedst kendt for sine legendariske spionromaner om agent 007, James Bond, der er delvist baseret på hans egne oplevelser i den engelske efterretningstjeneste både under og efter anden verdenskrig. Ian Fleming nød at leve i sus og dus, og James Bond-romanernes enorme succes både som bøger og på det store lærred gjorde ham i stand til at leve et jetsetterliv med alle de bekvemmeligheder, det medførte. Ian Fleming skrev sin første James Bond-roman, "Casino Royal", i 1953, og udgav i alt 12 romaner og to novellesamlinger om den snu og hårdføre agent, hvoraf hver og en fik enorm succes både som bøger og efterfølgende som film.

Dr. No is the spy thriller as you've never read it before! Reinvented by Percival Everett, the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees and James. 'Clever, funny and mercilessly satirical.' – The Times Wala Kitu is a professor of mathematics at Brown University, specializing in nothing. Kitu is content with nothing – studying it, having it, doing it – until his research places him in the sights of billionaire and would-be Bond villain John Sill, who enlists the professor’s help to steal a deposit of nothing from Fort Knox and use it to reduce the United States of America to nothing. Sill wants vengeance for another act of all-American villainy: the murder of his father, a witness to the state-sanctioned assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. His mission is everything: ‘This country has never given anything to us and it never will.' Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.

70 YEARS OF 007 Meet James Bond, the world’s most famous spy, in these landmark 70th anniversary reissues of Ian Fleming’s classic series. Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6’s Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. But when he discovers a deadly centipede placed in his hotel room, the vacation is over. On this island, all suspicious activity leads inexorably to Dr. Julius No, a reclusive megalomaniac with steel pincers for hands. To find out what the good doctor is hiding, 007 must enlist the aid of local fisherman Quarrel and alluring beachcomber Honeychile Rider. Together they will combat a local legend the natives call 'the Dragon', before Bond alone must face the most punishing test of all: an obstacle course – designed by the sadistic Dr. No himself that measures the limits of the human body’s capacity for agony.

70 YEARS OF 007 Meet James Bond, the world’s most famous spy, in these landmark 70th anniversary reissues of Ian Fleming’s classic series. Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6’s Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. But when he discovers a deadly centipede placed in his hotel room, the vacation is over. On this island, all suspicious activity leads inexorably to Dr. Julius No, a reclusive megalomaniac with steel pincers for hands. To find out what the good doctor is hiding, 007 must enlist the aid of local fisherman Quarrel and alluring beachcomber Honeychile Rider. Together they will combat a local legend the natives call 'the Dragon', before Bond alone must face the most punishing test of all: an obstacle course – designed by the sadistic Dr. No himself that measures the limits of the human body’s capacity for agony.

Dr. No is the spy thriller as you've never read it before! Reinvented by Percival Everett, the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees and James. 'Clever, funny and mercilessly satirical.' – The Times Wala Kitu is a professor of mathematics at Brown University, specializing in nothing. Kitu is content with nothing – studying it, having it, doing it – until his research places him in the sights of billionaire and would-be Bond villain John Sill, who enlists the professor’s help to steal a deposit of nothing from Fort Knox and use it to reduce the United States of America to nothing. Sill wants vengeance for another act of all-American villainy: the murder of his father, a witness to the state-sanctioned assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. His mission is everything: ‘This country has never given anything to us and it never will.' Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.

JAMES BOND IS PUT TO THE TEST AGAINST AN EGOTISTICAL SCIENTIST WITH NEFARIOUS AIMS Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6's Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. But when he discovers a deadly centipede placed in his hotel room, the vacation is over. On this island, all suspicious activity leads inexorably to Dr. Julius No, a reclusive megalomaniac with steel pincers for hands. To find out what the good doctor is hiding, 007 must enlist the aid of local fisherman Quarrel and alluring beachcomber Honeychile Rider. Together they will combat a local legend the natives call "the Dragon," before Bond alone must face the most punishing test of all: an obstacle course―designed by the sadistic Dr. No himself―that measures the limits of the human body's capacity for agony.

JAMES BOND IS PUT TO THE TEST AGAINST AN EGOTISTICAL SCIENTIST WITH NEFARIOUS AIMS Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6's Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. But when he discovers a deadly centipede placed in his hotel room, the vacation is over. On this island, all suspicious activity leads inexorably to Dr. Julius No, a reclusive megalomaniac with steel pincers for hands. To find out what the good doctor is hiding, 007 must enlist the aid of local fisherman Quarrel and alluring beachcomber Honeychile Rider. Together they will combat a local legend the natives call "the Dragon," before Bond alone must face the most punishing test of all: an obstacle course―designed by the sadistic Dr. No himself―that measures the limits of the human body's capacity for agony.