Wouldn't ya know it, the best player in the force just happens to be a guy named James Bond. So out of all their special agents, they send their best card player. And it would really damage their super-spy street cred. I'm not really sure, but it would definitely get Le Chiffre killed by his own agency so he doesn't need to be assassinated. He's likely to succeed unless the Brits and Americans can bankrupt him instead. Le Chiffre is an agent of the villainous Russian spy agency SMERSH who's gotten himself into money trouble and his only hope of survival is to win it all back gambling at the high stakes games of Royale-les-Eaux casino in northern France. The 2006 Daniel Craig reboot Casino Royale was the most source inspired film of the entire franchise.

If the plot sounds familiar, it's no surprise.

My goal is to read them throughout 2018 but I already had the first one finished by New Year's Day. For Christmas this year I got the entire set of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, about 14 volumes.

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