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Dr. No (with Interview)

By: Ian Fleming
Narrated by: Hugh Quarshie
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M thinks he has an easy case for 007. Exactly what’s needed after his latest near-fatal encounter with SMERSH. However, arriving in Jamaica to look for a missing agent and his secretary, Bond learns that the reclusive Dr Julius No could be connected with their disappearance. When Bond and the exotic Honeychile Rider are imprisoned on Dr No’s private island, they realise that his plans could threaten international security.

Includes an exclusive bonus interview with Hugh Quarshie.

Ian Fleming was born in London in 1908. He was educated at Eton and worked as a journalist in Moscow and a banker and stockbroker in London before becoming personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence during the Second World War. He wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952 at Goldeneye, his home in Jamaica. Since then James Bond has gone on to become a global phenomenon.

Hugh Quarshie has a long and distinguished television career that encompasses Doctor Who, Holby City, Small Island and White Heat and the award-winning The Murder of Stephen Lawrence. He has also appeared in the films Ghosted, Highlander, To Walk with Lions and Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. His theatre credits include leading roles at the National Theatre, RSC and Manchester Royal Exchange.

©1958 Ian Fleming Publications Ltd (P)2013 Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, 2012. © AudioGO Ltd, 2012. James Bond and 007 are registered trademarks of Danjaq LLC, used under licence by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.

Critic Reviews

"Wildly funny…hair-raising in a loony way." ( San Francisco Chronicle)
"Masterful, beautifully written." (Raymond Chandler)
"Magnificent writing." ( Time)
"The usual sado-masochistic free-for-all, plus octopuses." ( The Observer)
"Artfully bold, dizzyingly poised…You’d much better read it than read about it." ( New York Herald Tribune)

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The perfect Movie in a Book

I just couldn’t stop listening to this book. Ian Fleming wrote such an exciting story that manages to make the most plain scenes just as thrilling as the rest of the book (in a good way of course). Hugh Quarshie is the final cherry on the cake with an exemplary performance that added tension and charisma to the final product. His Jamaican accent was top notch too. These five stars are well deserved.

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Keeps getting better

This feels like a classic Bond film defining novel. It really has all the famous Bond tropes, the exotic location, the girl, the villain and secret base. The narrator was excellent. Probably the best Bond novel yet.

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what a fantastic narrator

and one of his best books ..very atmospheric and one of the few books I've re listened

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Excellent narration, ok Bond story

Like ‘Live and Let Die’, this novel sees Bond travel to Jamaica, where he is captured yet eventually beats the big bad boss. However, Dr No is the better story and far better narrated with Hugh Quarshie, an appropriate choice of narrator for doing justice to the different accents of black people.

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OMG

This so good because it is James bond (duh) but if you don’t want a spoiler then don’t read on from now. When the kraken like creature was attacking bond but that was never in the movie but I don’t really care.

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Excellent

I am pleased with the previous books but this one takes a step up, you get the sense that not only is Bond becoming more rounded but so is Flemings writing style.

The story is gripping and you are drawn into the narrative.

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book to movie

i have seen the movie and thought it was better but the narration was good

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