The first 007 adventure by Ian Fleming - now with a new introduction by
Anthony Horowitz, author of Forever and a Day Le Chiffre is a businessman
with expensive tastes - and SMERSH's chief operative in France. As his
dissolute lifestyle threatens to ruin him, his only hope of survival is to
risk his paymasters' money at the baccarat table. Across from him sits
James Bond, the finest gambler in the British secret service. Bond's
mission- to outplay Le Chiffre and shatter his Soviet cell. Amidst the
opulence of the Royale-les-Eaux casino, the two men face each other in a
game with the highest stakes of all.