From Russia with Love

De: Ian Fleming

Narrado por: Toby Stephens

Duración: 8 h y 56 m

Resumen del Editor

James Bond is targeted for elimination by SMERSH, and the malevolent Colonel Rosa Klebb has set a trap in Istanbul. The bait is the Spektor decoding machine, which is to be delivered by the irresistible Tatiana Romanova. The assassin is Red Grant, a psychopath who has defected from the West. Bond and Tatiana become pawns in a game of cross and double-cross that reaches its deadly finale on the Orient Express.

Includes an exclusive bonus interview with Toby Stephens.

Ian Fleming was born in London in 1908. He was educated at Eton and worked as a journalist in Moscow and a banker and stockbroker in London before becoming personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence during the Second World War. He wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952 at Goldeneye, his home in Jamaica. Since then James Bond has gone on to become a global phenomenon.

Toby Stephens’ expansive list of credits in film, theatre and television have earned him critical acclaim as a stage and screen actor of distinction. He will soon reprise his role as Captain Flint in the second season of Starz’s drama Black Sails, and recently starred in the critically acclaimed Private Lives at the Gielgud Theatre in London’s West End. Other theatre credits include Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing at London’s Old Vic Theatre and Ibsen’s Doll’s House at the Donmar Warehouse. On film he played Gustav Graves in the James Bond movie Die Another Day.

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Reseñas de la Crítica

"Highly polished, irresistible." ( Sunday Times)
"Mr. Fleming is in a class by himself." ( Daily Mail)
"Mr. Fleming…has never concocted a richer brew." ( New Yorker)
"Fleming is intensely observant, acutely literate and can turn a cliché into a silk purse with astute alchemy." ( New York Herald Tribune)
"Fleming’s tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale." ( Times Literary Supplement)

A classical Bond in an elegant style

Would you listen to From Russia with Love again? Why?

I will return with pleasure to this audio, for the perfume of that times so well described in the book and most of all, for the incredible voice of Toby Stephens.

What did you like best about this story?

The book has some of the best ingredients for success : espionage, mystery, love story, friendship, travelling with one of the most romantic conveyance - the Orient Express

What about Toby Stephens’s performance did you like?

His outstanding performance took me in the middle of the story, mixing drama, mystery and feelings with extraordinary easiness. Listening to this audio book with all his old fashioned characters, impersonated by Toby Stephens with so much style and depth, it's a literary experience which turns into a personal one and that is why you will always want to return.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I have had many moments when I hardly stopped the device.

Again wasting bytes

Not interested in writting reviews. Just giving stars should be enough. Product manager of Audible should be fired

What is there not to love?

Great story with so much more depth than the movie and a different twists and ending

A gritty adventure

I’m not entirely sure what to make of this novel. It’s very different from its predecessors and is very much, I think, the kind of Cold War spy story that has become so synonymous with the 1960s. I thoroughly enjoyed Toby Stephen’s reading of the novel.

Underwhelming.

Good narration, which unfortunately does not make up for a dismal, grim, pointless book. It has also not aged well. Give this a miss and listen to Moonraker instead.