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Title: Quite An Ending!
Review: This book, for those of you who would like to see the basis for the movie, is not like the movie at all. The only sameness is the Japan setting.The story: James Bond is a mess after his wife was murdered. His boss considers firing him, but changes his mind and gives Bond a different kind of assignment: to get a device known as "the vacuum cleaner" from the Japanese. After much interesting negotiation, Bond is told that he can have the machine in exchange for a favor. Bond accepts the terms, and soon realizes that this favor involves an old enemy: Ernst Stavro Blofeld.This book was well-written, and was Fleming's last finished novel. The new characters are great, as well. The only trouble is that the book reads too much as a travelogue of Japan. The ending will surprise many. Personally, I think Fleming should have stopped here, and not gone on to the disastrous Man With the Golden Gun.
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