Live and Let Die

When 007 goes to Harlem, it’s not just for the jazz. For Harlem is the kingdom of Mr Big, black master of crime, voodoo baron, senior partner in SMERSH’s grim company of death.

Those he cannot possess, he crushes;

those who cross him will meet painful ends.

Like his beautiful prisoner, Solitaire.

And her lover, James Bond.

Both are marked out as victims in a trail of terror, treachery and torture that leads from New York’s black underworld to the shark-infested island in the sun that Mr Bier calls his own…

‘Speed…tremendous zest communicated excitement. Brrh! How wincingly well Mr Fleming writes ‘—JULIAN SYMONS, SUNDAY TIMES