Casino Royale is the first novel in the James Bond series by Ian Fleming. It follows Bond's mission to defeat the evil Le Chiffre at a high-stakes game of baccarat in the fictional Casino Royale in Montenegro. Along the way, Bond meets a
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Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and, briefly, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the University of Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing.