On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by Ian Fleming

Still not an amazing book, but better and marginally less preposterous than some of the more recent Bonds. It’s not particularly discriminatory either, as Fleming books go, despite being lazily sexist more or less throughout.

The plot’s not bad and placing an unarmed Bond in danger in a comparatively plausible way is quite well done. The overall conspiracy is, of course, utterly ludicrous, but although it’s spoken of as being plausible, it’s never really suggested in the book that this is the case, so maybe we’ll let Fleming off that one.

Overall, reasonably enjoyable Bond fare.

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