Books: Of Human Bondage

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (211 pp.)—Ian Fleming—Viking ($3.95).

Among the shocks and disappointments 1962 still has in store for President John F. Kennedy and many thousands of other unsuspecting people is the discovery that the cruel, handsome, scarred face of James Bond does not turn up until more than halfway through Ian Fleming's latest book. They will look in vain for the familiar early scene in the eighth-floor office on Regent's Park where the taciturn M re-lights his pipe and hands Bond his latest assignation with Death and the Maiden.

And that is not...

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