I read the book Casino Royale, which is written by Ian Fleming. The book was published in 1953. As everyone knows Ian Fleming has also written many other James Bond books, in total 14 novels. He has also written two other books Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Thrilling Cities.
The genre of the book is spy fiction. Main characters are James Bond, Le Chiffre and Vesper Lynd. Other characters are Felix Leiter, Rene Mathis, M, Miss Moneypenny, Q and Gettler. Le Chiffre is the villain of the book who tries to win money by gambling.
The plot: Le Chiffre is a Soviet Union agent who has wasted secret fund. He is afraid that Soviet SMERSH foundation is going to kill him and decide to gamble to get money. 007 is sent to gamble against Le Chiffre. Lynd, MI6 agent Mathis and CIA agent Leiter joins Bond to help him on his mission. Le Chiffre, Bond and other players play baccarat. Bond loses all his money but he gets back to the table because Leiter gives Bond 30 million francs. 007 is threaten to be killed but he is able to continue the game. Bond beats Le Chiffre but he kidnaps Lynd. Bond tries to chase them but he swerves off the road and Le Chiffre kidnaps him too. He tortures Bond to get his money back. SMERSH agent comes and kills Le Chiffre. Bond wakes up in hospital and afterwards decides to marry Lynd. One day Bond finds Lynd dead and Lynd tells in a letter that she was Soviet agent. Lynd made a suicide that SMERSH wouldn’t kill Bond.
The Language was a little bit challenging but still understandable. The story is told by an omniscient narrator. The book was really good and it’s hard to say which is better the novel or the film. It was the first Bond I have read and I think I should read more of them. It was a little bit harder and slower to read an English novel than a Finnish one.
Sources: wikipedia.org