Book club edition. 1965 hardcover. Published by The New American Library. Includes dust jacket in poor condition; heavily chipped with missing pieces, faded and discolored. Book in very good condition with toning on spine (see photos). The book probes the secret of the secret agent's dazzling success dazzling success. Perusing all thirteen thrillers from casino Royale to The Man with the golden Gun, he sets out to prove that Bond is a hero cut to the measure of the twentieth century.