For Your Eyes Only
by Ian Fleming
read: 2013
For Your Eyes Only isn't a novel but a collection of shorter James Bond works. "From a View to a Kill" and "Risico" are fairly boiler-plate Bond, but the other three stories have interesting angles that flesh out Bond's character a little more. In the title story, M uses Bond as an instrument for personal revenge rather than England's interests, and Bond ruminates some on the guilt of killing, even bad men for a good cause. "The Hildebrand Rarity" examines the lengths to which people will go when pushed, and Bond is more Nick Carraway than Nicholas Cage in it, uninvolved in the major action. "Quantum of Solace" is a story-within-a-story about marriage gone wrong and how cruel spurned lovers can be; it's curious that Fleming thought of it as a Bond story at all.
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