A good read, but not the great book it could have been. It could easily have been twice as long. Early chapters are strongest. Strong on Disney. Would like to have seen more on Looney Tunes

The book, of course is all I remember, but Amazon or the publisher needs to fix the typos in the Kindle edition. They usually occur on the Japanese proper names or some Japanese words, and I'm not being picky. Some of the words have symbols or wingdings instead of letters. I'll feel a lot better about e-books when I know they're as heavily proofread as print books.

Bond is pretty depressed after the death of his wife. One of M's contemporaries suggests a crazy mission to snap him out of it, so M sends him to Japan.Tiger Tanaka is head of Japanese Intelligence, and will give Bond what M wants if he will rid them of a local villain called Dr. Shatterhand.Hiding in a deadly garden, Shatterhand is really Blofeld, living with his assistant.The girl in this book is Kissy Suzuki, who ends up taking care of Bond after he is injured in a final duel with Blofeld, and loses his memory.

This is Ian Fleming's most mysterious and enigmatic James Bond novel. This is a direct follow up to "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." It starts out as a direct secret service story even though Bond is reassigned to the diplomatic section. As it progresses it becomes almost surrealistic as James Bond tracks down his arch nemesis on the island of Kyushu. This is a very well written and researched novel. The Japanese idioms and depictions of locale are exquisite. When the novel moves to Kuro Island and is on the threshold of Dr. Shaterhand's castle lair, Fleming approaches mythical horizons. I found this absorbing, haunting and prophetic novel very difficult to put down once I started reading it. You get addicted early on to such charismatic characters as Tiger Tanaka and the all too brief Dikko Henderson but it is the narrative of this epic tale that beckons the reader. The new retro-paperback cover is alluring.

This is Ian Fleming's most mysterious and enigmatic James Bond novel. This is a direct follow up to "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." It starts out as a direct secret service story even though Bond is reassigned to the diplomatic section. As it progresses it becomes almost surrealistic as James Bond tracks down his arch nemesis on the island of Kyushu. This is a very well written and researched novel. The Japanese idioms and depictions of locale are exquisite. When the novel moves to Kuro Island and is on the threshold of Dr. Shaterhand's castle lair, Fleming approaches mythical horizons. I found this absorbing, haunting and prophetic novel very difficult to put down once I started reading it. You get addicted early on to such charismatic characters as Tiger Tanaka and the all too brief Dikko Henderson but it is the narrative of this epic tale that beckons the reader. The new retro-paperback cover is alluring.

For me, that can't be Bond! After writing such a masterpiece as OHMSS, Ian Fleming did this to all of us: No action, no fun- where is James Bond?