![]() ![]() ![]() Though it’s an entertaining package, For Your Eyes Only doesn’t offer anything particularly memorable. The Hildebrand Rarity ranks a close second but here, Bond does indeed get his hands dirty, and bloody. There’s not a bad yarn in thus bunch, but it’s Quantum of Solace that deserves the most acclaim a story that doesn’t have Bond get out of his chair! 007 is told the tale of a failed marriage and just as the reader assumes Fleming is leading us down a well-trodden path, he offers an impactful, emotive twist, immediately making it the highlight. ![]() Ian Fleming’s occasionally stilted prose is perfect for these quickly-digested short stories, and in fact he finds room for experimentation a spin on the formula that had served him so well up until this point. ![]() And James Bond does his duty diligently every time he is called upon by Her Majesty. Rather than pitting James Bond against another megalomaniac psychopath with a penchant for destruction, these tales are smaller in scope, demonstrating to readers that not every case 007 is handed contorts into the stuff of fantasy: for every Goldfinger he topples, there is a smaller villain to terminate. The five short stories presented in For Your Eyes Only are wonderful additions to 007 continuity. ![]()
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