The Lifeline Paperback Book - By Phyllis Bottome UK with new cover art and

with new cover art and end papers by Michael Gillette

Originally commissioned by Penguin Books to mark the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth

is recruited by an old friend at the Foreign Office and introduced to his boss ‘B’

The sock is principally constructed out of cotton

known as a 'contact sheet' for photographers and picture editors to then select the best frames

The Lifeline Paperback Book - By Phyllis Bottome UK with new cover art andIntroducing the first selection for The James Bond Book Club. To kick off the club, we are delighted to bring you The Lifeline, the novel that inspired Ian Flemings Bond, first published in 1946. It is 1938 and Mark Chalmers, a master at Eton, is recruited by an old friend at the Foreign Office and introduced to his boss B. Reluctantly he agrees to take on a covert mission for British Intelligence to parachute into Nazi occupied Austria and pass on