You Only Live Twice
Overview
Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...
's James Bond series of stories. It was first published by Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape was a London-based publisher founded in 1919 as "Page & Co" by Herbert Jonathan Cape , formerly a manager at Duckworth who had worked his way up from a position of bookshop errand boy. Cape brought with him the rights to cheap editions of the popular author Elinor Glyn and sales of...
in the UK on 26 March 1964 and sold out quickly. The book holds the distinction of being the last novel completed by Fleming to be published in his lifetime, with subsequent works being published posthumously. You Only Live Twice is the concluding chapter in what is known as the "Blofeld Trilogy".
The story starts eight months after the murder of Tracy Bond
Tracy Bond
Teresa "Tracy" Bond is a fictional character and the main Bond girl in the James Bond film and novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service...
, which occurred at the end of On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Quotations
[about to make love to Helga Brandt] Oh the things I do for England.
[Coded message to headquarters] Little Nelly got a hot reception. Four big shots made improper advances toward her, but she defended her honour with great success.
[Bond has just sent Blofeld's henchman into the water. The piranha immediately attack him] Bon appetit!
Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond.
You Only Live Twice...and "TWICE" is the only way to live!