Live and Let Die (novel)
Live and Let Die is a spy fiction novel by British author Ian Fleming. It was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954. The novel was adapted in 1973 as the eighth film in the Eon Productions Bond series and the first to star Roger Moore as Bond. Major plot elements from the novel were also incorporated into the Bond films For Your Eyes Only in 1981 and Licence to Kill in 1989.
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Live and Let Die is a spy fiction novel by British author Ian Fleming. It was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954. The novel was adapted in 1973 as the eighth film in the Eon Productions Bond series and the first to star Roger Moore as Bond. Major plot elements from the novel were also incorporated into the Bond films For Your Eyes Only in 1981 and Licence to Kill in 1989. The story centres on Bond’s pursuit of a criminal who has links to the American criminal network, the world of voodoo and SMERSH, all of which are threats to the First World. Bond becomes involved in the US through Mr Big’s smuggling of 17th-century gold coins from British territories in the Caribbean. The book deals with the themes of the ongoing East-West struggle of the Cold War, including British and American relations, Britain’s position in the world, race relations, and the struggle between good and evil. Fleming wrote the novel at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica before his first book, Casino Royale, was published. The initial print run of 7,500 copies quickly sold out and a second print run was ordered within the year. US sales, when the novel was released there a year later, were much slower, with the first print run selling out within a month of the novel’s release. The second book in the James Bond series was published in 1962, followed by Casino Royale in 1963. The third and fourth novels in the series were published in 1964 and 1965.
The fifth and sixth novels were released in 1966 and 1967. The sixth and seventh novels were published later that year, and were followed by the seventh and eighth novels in 1968. The final novel, The Kite Runner, was released in 1973. It is the second of the Bond series to be set in Jamaica, after Casino Royale. The fourth and fifth novels were written in 1973 and 1974, respectively, and are set in New York City and St. Petersburg, Florida, and in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The last novel was written in 1974, after the death of James Bond’s father, George Bond, in a plane crash in Grenada. The novels were all written by Ian Fleming at the same time as his first novel, Casino Royale, which was published a year before Casino Royale in 1953. The books were written by different authors at different times over the course of five years, with Fleming’s travel in the U.S. and Jamaica providing much of the background for the story. The first novel was published on 5 March 1954, while the second was released on 5 May 1954. It has been adapted into a comic strip adaptation in 1958–59 by John McLusky in the Daily Express. The comic strip was the first Bond film to feature Roger Moore in the role of Bond. The seventh film, For Your eyes Only, released in 1981, was the second Bond Bond film, with Roger Moore playing Bond as the main character. The eighth film, Licence To Kill, was also released in 1983.
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