Five short stories find James Bond facing danger from a variety of sources, all of which he escapes through fast thinking and even faster action:

The destruction of a Russian hideout at S.H.A.P.E. headquarters near Paris

The planned assassination of a Cuban thug in America

The tracking of a heroin ring from Rome to Venice and beyond

Love and hate in Bermuda.

Sudden death in the Seychelles....

Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964), creator of the world's best-known secret agent, was born in London and educated at Eton and Sandhurst. In 1929, he became the Reuters Moscow correspondent. Much of the James Bond material was drawn directly from Fleming's experiences as an intelligence officer.