Discover the James Bond Casino Royale Hardback Book - By Ian Fleming. This edition features additional archival material, with new cover art and end papers by Michael Gillette.

Details. 007. Vesper Lynd. Le Chiffre. In the ground-breaking first novel of Ian Fleming’s classic series, James Bond is dispatched to a French casino for an unforgettable – and possibly lethal – game of baccarat.

The artist. Born and raised in Wales, US-based artist Michael Gillette was first commissioned by Penguin Books to create a set of hardback book covers to mark the 2008 Centenary of Ian Fleming's birth. He has worked with Fleming Publishing to create this new collection. "I had the idea for something really geometric, simple, bright and bold which hadn’t been done."