The horror comes in the matter of fact manner in which Le Chiffre explains what he is doing and why, and the description of how he goes about it.

It's not overdone and there is absolutely no detailed description of the event or in the injuries to Bond. It's an important scene that's integral to the plot of the book. I thought the movie version was traumatic.but the book's description is so much more gruesome. The movie starring Daniel Craig depicted the basics of the torture, but left out much of the psychological brutality of the entire scene. This book contains one of the most gruesome torture scenes I have ever experienced in a book. He kidnaps Bond and Vesper Lynd, setting in motion events that might be the end of Bond. But Le Chiffre is determined not to be ruined. With some help from an American CIA agent, Felix Leiter, and another British Agent, the beautiful Vesper Lynd, Bond manages to win a record amount of money at the baccarat table. In Casino Royale, Bond infiltrates a high stakes baccarat game in order to bankrupt and ultimately ruin a Russian operative, Le Chiffre.

The movies are pretty much just action-packed fight scenes separated by drinking martinis and having sex. The complexity of the character just doesn't come through in the movies. Yes, he travels to exotic places to kill people and he has more than his share of liaisons with beautiful women.but the books include his thoughts on his job, his fear and apprehension during missions, and his considerations of retirement, settling down, forming a more lasting relationship with a woman, etc. James Bond is a much more complex character than the way he is portrayed in the movies. I've seen the movie - the new and the old version - many times, but this is the first time I've actually read the book. Casino Royale is the first book in the James Bond series.

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