216 pp. Jacket art by Jerome Kuhl, who designed new jackets for the first seven James Bond novels for their rerelease in 1966. The second novel (following Casino Royale) in the series following the exploits of MI6 agent 007 James Bond. James Bond is out to stop Mr. Big, a Kremlin criminal who runs a network of terror. In 1973, Paul McCartney released the song of the same name as the theme for the film starring Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, and Jane Seymour, which was, oddly, the eighth James Bond film. The song's popularity was renewed by the 1991 Guns 'n' Roses cover. James Bond is not a superstitious man, but it's hard not to feel unnerved in the presence of Mr. Big. A ruthless Harlem gangster who uses voodoo to control his criminal empire, he's also one of SMERSH's top American operatives. Mr. Big has been smuggling British pirate treasure to New York from a remote Jamaican island - and funneling the proceeds to Moscow. With help from Solitaire, Mr. Big's beautiful and enigmatic Creole fortune-teller, and his old friend Felix Leiter, 007 must locate the crime lord's hideout, sabotage his operation, and reclaim the pirate hoard for England. From the jazz joints of Harlem to the shark-infested waters of the Florida Everglades, Live and Let Die sends Bond headlong into the exotic.
