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      Thunderball

      by Ian Fleming
      Published
      Jan 1961
      Main Genre
      Espionage / Spies / CIA Espionage
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      James Bond
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      James Bond

      About This Book

      JAMES BOND takes on the most outrageously daring adversary he's ever encountered: SPECTRE. This gang of super-criminals has gotten hold of two atomic weapons and plans to use them for blackmail on a world scale. If the Prime Minister of England and the President of the United States do not meet its terms, SPECTRF will drop the bombs, one by one.

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Espionage / Spies / CIA Thriller

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