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title: "On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by Ian Fleming"
description: "Summary: Ernst Bloefeld (of SPECTRE) is back and has come up with a new scheme. When I was a kid I loved James Bond movies.  And I still mostly like new James Bond movies.  But as I re-watch old ones..."
url: https://bookwi.se/majestys-secret-service/
date: 2014-04-21
modified: 2026-07-27
author: "Adam Shields"
categories: ["Book Reviews"]
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type: post
lang: en
---

# On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by Ian Fleming

[![On Her Majesty](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/cover-33571.jpg)](http://www.amazon.com/Her-Majestys-Secret-Service-Vintage-ebook/dp/B008L40NTA/)**Summary: Ernst Bloefeld (of SPECTRE) is back and has come up with a new scheme.**

When I was a kid I loved James Bond movies.  And I still mostly like new James Bond movies.  But as I re-watch old ones the cartoonish villains bug me. Lasers to shoot down rockets, stealing all the gold in Fort Knox, etc. are just a bit silly.

I stumbled on the movie of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service sometime last year and made it through 20 or 30 minutes.  The set up is a bit ridiculous.  The bad guy has a lair in the Alps where beautiful girls go to get rid of their allergies.  James Bond sneaks in find out what is going on.

The movie was a bit silly, but the book was actually the best of the Bond books I have read.  And from a story perspective, it seems to be one of the more realistic.  It involves bioterrorism, but I won’t reveal the actual story.

This is also the book that is famous for Bond getting married.

As much as I enjoyed it, this is the last of the Bond books I have purchased and I think it is the last I will purchase.

**On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by Ian Fleming Purchase Links: [Paperback](http://www.amazon.com/Majestys-Secret-Service-James-Bond/dp/161218555X/), [Kindle Edition](http://www.amazon.com/Her-Majestys-Secret-Service-Vintage-ebook/dp/B008L40NTA/), [Audiobook ](http://www.amazon.com/On-Her-Majestys-Secret-Service/dp/B000JJ4OI6/)***(Audiobook is discounted to $3.99 with purchase of Kindle Book), also this is a Kindle Lending Library Book*

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