Casino Royal
By: Ian Fleming
Chapter 1 – 13


The book Casino Royale is writer Ian Fleming’s first James Bond Novel. Which was first published in 1953. The plot of the book is based on a Casino called Casino Royale in Royale-Les-Eaux, France.

The main character of Casino Royale is James Bond. Who is an agent working for British Secret service, under code name 007. In this book James bond is shown as an expert poker player. Bond has experience from an early assignment. He took down a team of Roumanian who cheated using invisible ink in a casino in Monte Carlo. In Royale-Les Eaux bond is disguising as a millionaire business man from Port Maria Jamaica who is in Casino Royale to gamble with his family’s money. In this book James Bond’s main mission is to stop Le Chiffre from winning a poker tournament.

Le Chiffre is a member of a secret organization called SMERSH baser in USSR. The name is a conjunction of two Russian words, Smyert and Shpionam which means Death to Spies. And he is controlled by SMERSH’s Leningrad Section III, which is based in Paris. While working for SMERSH Le Chiffre used organizations money for person use. In times he lost a big sum of money on his expensive bad habits and also in a failed brothel business. Now that his bosses want the money back, his plan is to recoup his losses at the casino on a poker tournament. He is a very dangerous man who carries three razor blades and two armed body guard with him all the time. He is also a very skilled poker player. He is running a baccarat game in the casino at Royale-Les-Eaux, France, in order to recover SMERSH’s money he lost

In this mission James Bond is facilitate by another agent named Rene Mathis. Mathis job is to protect James Bond and to supply him with all necessities. British Secret agency also assigned Vesper Lynd to accompany James Bond. Felix Leiter is a CIA agent working for US government, based in Fontainebleau. Who also lend a helping hand to James Bond to complete this mission.

In his first game in the tournament against Le Chiffre Bond looses all his money. He almost came close to fail his mission. Felix Leiter the CIA agent managed to give thirty-two million francs to Bond in order to continue his involvement in the tournament. At the end Bond manage to win all his money back and have Le Chiffre loose the tournament and cause his opponent’s financial ruin.