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.

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.

"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It'd take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it's your check, I'm going to have caviar, and what the English call "cutlets", and some pink champagne. I don't often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner's going to live up to the occasion." Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with-if you wanted. 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, the ice-maiden herself ...