Thunderball

Description

The ninth in the James Bond series, Thunderball was first published by Jonathan Cape in 1961. The novel opens with Bond being sent to a health clinic to recover form his overindulgent lifestyle. At the clinic Bond encounters Count Lippe, a member of the Red Lightning Tong criminal organisation from Macau. When Bond learns of the Tong connection, Lippe tries to kill him by tampering with a spinal traction table on which Bond is being treated. Bond is saved by nurse Patricia Fearing and later retaliates by trapping Lippe in a steam bath, causing second-degree burns and sending him to hospital for a week. Thunderball also introduces SPECTRE’s leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the first of three appearances in Bond novels, along with On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice. This is the Pan paperback edition, the fourteenth printing from 1965, and is in very good condition.