Resultados para "James" en Espías y políticos

Creado en 1953 por Ian Fleming, James Bond es uno de los personajes más famosos de la iconografía popular en todos sus medios, especialmente en literatura y en cine. Máximo exponente de un género más vital que nunca, el agente 007 es el espía por antonomasia, aunque sus novelas, inexplicablemente, han resultado durante mucho tiempo imposibles de encontrar en el mercado español.

Upon M’s insistence, James Bond takes a two-week respite in a secluded natural health spa. But amid the bland teas and tasteless yoghurts Bond stumbles onto the trail of a lethal man with ties to a new secret organization called SPECTRE. When SPECTRE hijacks two A-bombs, a frantic global search for the weapons ensues, and M’s hunch that the plane containing the bombs will make a clean drop into the ocean sends Bond to the Bahamas to investigate.

En esta novela, Bond viaja al Caribe para investigar la desaparición de un agente y de su secretaria. Su contendiente será el lunático Doctor No, ungigante con la misión de capturar misiles estadounidenses por encargo de los soviéticos.

Mister Big, un despiadado gánster de Harlem que dirige todo un imperio del crimen y que parece estar utilizando un antiguo tesoro pirata enterrado en una isla jamaicana para financiar operaciones de espionaje soviético en suelo estadounidense. Un poderoso enemigo que, por si fuera poco, parece experto en las negras artes del vudú, algo que, a pesar de la ayuda que le presta la hermosa Solitaire, puede terminar incluso con Bond, James Bond.

James Bond recibe la orden de investigar el oscuro pasado de Dexter Smithe, un comandante de la Marina Británica retirado, que vive en Jamaica entregado a su pasión: la pesca submarina. Algo dramático y cuyas consecuencias aún permanecen vivas ocurrió durante la segunda guerra mundial. 007 tendrá que ingeniárselas para extraerle toda la información y no perder su propia vida.

Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6’s Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. But when he discovers a deadly centipede placed in his hotel room, the vacation is over. On this island, all suspicious activity leads inexorably to Dr. Julius No, a reclusive megalomaniac with steel pincers for hands. To find out what the good doctor is hiding, 007 must enlist the aid of local fisherman Quarrel and alluring beachcomber Honeychile Rider.

James Bond conoce a una mujer extraordinariamente cautivadora, la condesa Teresa di Vicenzo. Junto a ella se ve envuelto en una tumultuosa misión cuando el espía británico trata de llegar, a través del padre de la joven, hasta el mismísimo líder de SPECTRE, una terrible organización criminal internacional. Para conseguir sus objetivos, Bond debe viajar a lo largo del mundo, infiltrarse entre los más astutos criminales, enfrentarse a los terribles planes de SPECTRE para desarrollar una guerra biológica contra Inglaterra, y afrontar... ¿su propia boda?

A small town is hiding a dark secret . . . and people are willing to kill to protect it. Roach has always done what he believes is right. Which is why he can't walk away. Roach witnesses a woman being assaulted. Saving her sets him on a dangerous path he can't help but follow. With violence and...

El agente 007 recibe del MI6 la misión de investigar a un peligroso contrabandista de oro, Auric Goldfinger, sospechoso de pertenecer a la agencia de espionaje soviética SMERSH y de financiar las actividades de esta en Occidente.

James Bond tendrá que viajar a Japón para intentar establecer una colaboración continua entre las agencias de espionaje británica y nipona. ¿Cómo evitar una Tercera Guerra Mundial? Sólo James Bond lo sabe.

En ellos, Bond se verá envuelto en una escabrosa misión de la OTAN donde habrá de investigar un asesinato, se enfrentará a un jerarca nazi en la Cuba de Baptista, hablará del amor y la crueldad que a veces este implica con el gobernador de Bahamas, tratará de destruir una operación de contrabando de drogas en Italia, y será testigo de las retorcidas relaciones de un millonario americano con su esposa y el criado de ambos durante un extraño viaje marítimo.

Nathan Tyler is an unassuming professor at a middling American university with a rather obscure specialty in mathematics—in short, a nobody from nowhere. So why is the White House calling? Summoned to Washington, DC, for a top-secret briefing, Nathan discovers that he’s the key to a massive foreign intelligence breakthrough. Reading between the lines of a cryptic series of equations, he could open a door straight into the heart of the Kremlin and change the global balance of power forever.

“Le Chiffre” is a ruthless operative and the accountant for a soviet SMERSH cell in France, but he’s on the verge of disaster after gambling away his client’s money. Taking the last of his stash, he lures a dozen wealthy players to a high-stakes baccarat game, hoping to hustle his way whole. The British Secret Service would like to see this red thorn plucked from the hide of Europe, and sends their best card sharp, James Bond, to bankrupt Le Chiffre for good.

It was a strong face, certainly—the eyes pale grey and very cold, the mouth was hard, the dark hair-grey-streaked now—still fell in the authentic comma over the forehead. This is how John Pearson reacted to his first encounter with the real James Bond, an encounter probably unique in the annals of thriller writing. He went on to write the bestselling authorized biography of Ian Fleming. At the time, like most of the world he assumed that James Bond was nothing more than a character in Fleming's highly charged imagination.

The Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service has been assassinated, and the British government brought to its knees by a terrorist organization intent on unleashing a weapon of apocalyptic proportions. In desperation, a deniable team is assembled to hunt down the terrorists. Called back from obscurity to lead them is Jack “Gorilla” Grant, a freelancer with a Smith & Wesson’ 39 and cut-throat razor, who is ready to even the score in his own brutal fashion.

James Bond is not an easily intimidated man, but it’s hard not to feel unnerved in the presence of Mr. Big. A ruthless Harlem gangster who uses superstition and fear to control his vast 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.

Bond may have a license to kill, but “Pistols” Scaramanga has a talent for it. He’s a KGB-trained assassin who’s left a trail of dead British Secret Service agents in his wake. His weapon of choice? A gold-plated Colt .45. In the aftermath of his brainwashing by the Soviets, Bond is given one last chance to win back M’s trust: terminate Scaramanga before he strikes MI6 again.

SMERSH, the Russian intelligence unit whose acronym stands for “Death to Spies,” is hell-bent on destroying Special Agent James Bond. His death would deal a catastrophic hammer blow to the heart of the British Secret Service. The lure? A beautiful woman who needs 007’s help. Tatiana Romanova is a Russian spy who promises to hand over the prized Spektor decoding machine if Bond aids her defection. Bond suspects a trap but can’t resist the opportunity to give the British the upper hand in a chilling new front of the Cold War.

It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to be a routine murder investigation sends him into a world of espionage, deceit, and betrayal.

When high school English teacher Alice Thornton helps her dying Russian neighbor write a spy thriller, she thinks she’s just doing a good deed. But when a sexy mystery man shows up in her classroom, claiming to be the novel’s dashing antihero, Alice is swept into a lethal conspiracy. Enigmatic former CIA operative Carter Beck warns her that the sensational murder plot wasn’t fiction. And because she knows too much, the killer wants her silenced—making Carter her only hope of survival.