James Bond author Ian Fleming was tempted to have his MI6 spy die in From Russia, with Love, but in the end, followed in the footsteps of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's resurrection of Sherlock Holmes.
In 1957, Ian Fleming published his fifth James Bond novel in From Russia, with Love.
The work was also serialised for the Daily
Express in an abridged format before
becoming a comic strip and President John
F Kennedy even listed it in his Top 10
. favourite books
The story may be better known today for
being Sean Connery’s second 007 movie
back in 1963, but the original storyline
.almost saw the MI6 spy killed off
Fleming ended From Russia, with Love with a cliffhanger. SMERSH’s Rosa Klebb was captured, but she managed to kill Bond with a
.poisoned blade hidden in her shoe