007 LA TIMES

The LA Times is running a series of Bond at 50 articles that are worth checking out. While the detailed movie summaries will be familiar to most, they also include excerpts from the original Fleming stories as well as excepts from interviews with 007 actors found in the new James Bond Unmasked book. Here is the Part One introduction and today's post entitled The Sadist Who Loved Me.

Scroll down for new editions of our series, For Your Shelf Only, where guests share stories about collecting and show us some of their treasures. More about Spy Vibe creator Agent J at Jason Whiton.