From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming is the fifth James Bond novel. SMERSH, seeking revenge for past defeats, devises an elaborate trap to kill Bond and humiliate British Intelligence. Beautiful Soviet cipher clerk Tatiana Romanova offers to defect, claiming she will deliver a vital decoding machine—but only if Bond escorts her from Istanbul. Despite suspecting a trap, MI6 accepts. Aboard the Orient Express, Bond battles the ruthless assassin Red Grant in a deadly fight to the death. Escaping with Tatiana, Bond believes the danger has passed—until Rosa Klebb, SMERSH's icy strategist, strikes him with a poisoned blade in Paris.
