Francis Iles, writing in The Guardian, noting the short-story format, "thought it better than the novels"[REF] and wrote that "the first story is full of the old wild improbabilities, but one of the others has a positively Maughamish flavour."[REF]
Writing in The Listener, John Raymond was of the opinion that Bond's "admirers .. will find him in top form"[REF] and that the stories, "all but one of which are well up to 007's high standard" [REF].