For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming Read by Samuel West | FULL AUDIOBOOK
49For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming Read by Samuel West | FULL AUDIOBOOK
For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by Ian Fleming, and the eighth book to feature the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously only written Bond stories as full-length novels.
The collection contains five short stories: "From a View to a Kill", "For Your Eyes Only", "Quantum of Solace", "Risico" and "The Hildebrand Rarity". Three of the stories were adaptations of plots for a television series that was never filmed; Fleming had written the fifth previously but not published it. He undertook some minor experiments with the format, including one story written as an homage to W. Somerset Maugham, an author he greatly admired.
Reviews for the book were mixed, although several critics thought the short-story format suited Bond. Elements from the stories have been used in several Bond films, including the title of the 1981 film, For Your Eyes Only, starring Roger Moore as Bond. The film also used some elements and characters from the short stories "For Your Eyes Only" and "Risico". "From a View to a Kill" also gave part of its title (but no characters or plot elements) to the 1985 film, A View to a Kill and plot elements from "The Hildebrand Rarity" were used in the 1989 film, Licence to Kill. "Quantum of Solace" was used as the title for the twenty-second Bond film in 2008.