Since my last 007 related post, I’ve finished two more books and am drawing a third to a close: Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. These make up an interesting sandwich of books in that the two on the ends, TB and OHMSS, both deal with SPECTRE and their sweeping, much-well-too-thought-out schemes of destruction for the United Kingdom. TSWLM, on the other hand, is a book about being a woman, literally.
The entire book is written from the perspective of the Bond Girl, with the first third of the narrative describing, in Fleming’s patented TOO-MUCH-INFORMATION-O-VISION, the entire life circumstance of this girl coming to this motel deep in the Adirondacks. The action takes place over the course of just one night. It’s a pretty good story, the villain isn’t super-outlandish (although extremely small-time compared to the likes of the SPECTRE stories that surround it) and Bond’s involvement in the plot is described as much of an accident. I will update my villain ridiculousness over time chart once I finish the next book.
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