FLEMING, Ian - The Spy Who Loved Me - (Hardcover in Jacket)

This 1964 book with it's original wrapper is still very good - Red end-papers.    >>> The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel and tenth book in 's series, first published by on 16 April 1962.  It is the shortest and most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, as well as the only Bond novel told in the . Its narrator is a young Canadian woman, Viv Michel. Bond himself does not appear until two-thirds of the way through the book, arriving at to save Viv from being raped and murdered by two criminals. Fleming wrote a prologue to the novel giving the character Viv credit as a co-author.

The story uses a recurring motif of , and contains themes of power, and the moral ambiguity between those acting with good and evil intent. As the narrator who tells her own backstory and expresses her emotions and motives, Viv has been described as the best realized and most rounded female character in the Bond canon.