Enrico Cicogna Book order (chronological)

I servizi segreti russi decidono di compiere un'azione esemplare, il bersaglio prescelto è l'Inghilterra, nella persona del suo agente segreto più prestigioso: James Bond, ovviamente. La bellissima Tatiana Romanova, caporale dello SMERSH - Smiert Spionam, la sezione più segreta del controspionaggio sovietico - riceve l'incarico di attirare in trappola James Bond ad Istanbul, e Red Grant, il più crudele e spietato tra gli agenti russi ha il compito di liquidarlo.

'THE COLONEL TOOK THE TOP OFF THE COFFEE CAN AND SAW THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE LITTLE SPOONFUL LEFT' Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and medicine that keeps them alive. But on Fridays the postman comes - and that sets a fleeting wave of hope rushing through the Colonel's ageing heart. For fifteen years he's watched the mail launch come into harbour, hoping he'll be handed an envelope containing the army pension promised to him all those years ago. Whilst he waits for the cheque, his hopes are pinned on his prize bird and the upcoming cockfighting season. But until then the bird - like the Colonel and his wife - must somehow be fed...

Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter.