How Bond could to forget to plug in the defibrillator. Titles within have recently been re-edited to remove racist language. And the highly amusing commentary from MI6 (Casino Royale is much funnier than many people credit). The Bond series would go on to sell over 100 million copies. And while his face-off with gambling villain Le Chiffre at the baccarat table drives the plot of Casino Royale, it’s the mystery of who is betraying 007 by giving information about him to various bad actors that keeps the pages turning. Casino Royale (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition). Bond’s entanglement with another agent, Vesper, defines his choices (and misogynistic outlook) in future adventures. In it Fleming also introduced Bond’s taste for high living and his vices in a vivid writing style that led to accusations of sex, sadism and snobbery. Fleming, who drew on his own experience spying for Britain to develop the novel, created an iconic killing machine whose suave exterior is explicitly designed to hide a brokenness within. Casino Royale is Ian Fleming’s first novel and the book that introduced James Bond to the world. Ian Fleming’s first-ever installment in the James Bond series, published in 1953, establishes what would become standard tropes in the 007 books and film adaptations for decades to come, including Daniel Craig’s first outing as the British spy in a film of the same name.
