The caissier has a cosh and a gun to protect him, and to heave over the barrier and steal some notes and then vault back and get out of the casino through the passages and doors would be impossible. They are on a level, behind the protecting barrier, with your groin. The barrier surrounding the caisse comes as high as your chin and the caissier, who is generally nothing more than a minor bank clerk, sits on a stool and dips into his piles of notes and plaques. In the shadow of his thick left arm there nestled a discreet stack of the big yellow ones worth half a million francs each.īond watched the curious, impressive profile for a time, and then he shrugged his shoulders to lighten his thoughts and moved away.

There was an untidy pile of flecked hundred-mille plaques in front of him.

Le Chiffre was still playing and still, apparently, winning. He shifted himself unobtrusively away from the roulette he had been playing and went to stand for a moment at the brass rail which surrounded breast-high the top table in the salle priv‚e. This helped him to avoid staleness and the sensual bluntness that breeds mistakes. He always knew when his body or his mind had had enough and he always acted on the knowledge. James Bond suddenly knew that he was tired. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling - a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it. It has been filmed twice as a feature film, the first being the 1967 spoof starring David Niven, and later as the twenty-first official Bond film starring Daniel Craig as James Bond.The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

The full details of Bond's martini were kept until chapter seven of the book and Bond eventually named it 'The Vesper', after Vesper Lynd' (Andrew Lycett). 'Within the first few pages Fleming had introduced most of Bond's idiosyncrasies and trademarks, which included his looks, his Bentley and his smoking and drinking habits. A nice example.Ĭasino Royale was written by Ian Fleming in Jamaica over a period of around two months, largely from his own experiences and imagination he also devised the artwork for the cover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with the Paul Gallico quote and $2.75 price present, the corners of the front flap trimmed as issued. First American edition of Fleming’s first novel in his acclaimed Bond series.

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