From Russia, with love

James Bond finds himself the target of a deadly Soviet plot when the counterintelligence agency SMERSH lures him to Istanbul with the promise of a decoding machine and a beautiful defector. As he boards the Orient Express to escort Tatiana Romanova to the West, he must outmaneuver a cold-blooded assassin and a ruthless operations chief. This classic spy novel pits 007 against a trap designed to destroy his reputation and his life.