From the back cover: "
James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence
agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller, and the novel
that President John F. Kennedy named one of his favorite books of all
time.
SMERSH stands for “Death to Spies” and there’s no secret
agent they’d like to disgrace and destroy more than 007, James Bond.
But ensnaring the British Secret Service’s most lethal operative will
require a lure so tempting even he can’t resist. Enter Tatiana
Romanova, a ravishing Russian spy whose “defection” springs a trap
designed with clockwork precision. Her mission: seduce Bond, then flee
to the West on the Orient Express. Waiting in the shadows are two of
Ian Fleming’s most vividly drawn villains: Red Grant, SMERSH’s
deadliest assassin, and the sinister operations chief Rosa Klebb—five
feet four inches of pure killing power.
Bursting with action and intrigue, From Russia with Love
is one of the best-loved books in the Bond canon—an instant classic
that set the standard for sophisticated literary spycraft for decades
to come."