The Spy Who Loved Me (novel) Express" newspaper in daily comic strip format in 1967–1968. In 1977, the title was used for the tenth film in the Eon Productions series. It was the third to star Roger Moore as Bond, and used no plot elements from the novel. Fleming structured the novel in three sections—"Me", "Them" and "Him" to describe the phases of the story. Vivienne "Viv" Michel, a young Canadian woman narrates her own story, detailing her past love affairs, the first being with Derek Mallaby, who took her virginity in a field after being thrown out of a cinema in Windsor for indecent exposure.
The Spy Who Loved Me (novel) manuscript Fleming had produced for a novel, being only 113 pages long. Fleming found the book the easiest for him to write, and apologised to his editor at Jonathan Cape for the ease. "The Spy Who Loved Me" has been described by Fleming biographer Andrew Lycett as Fleming's "most sleazy and violent story ever", which may have been indicative of his state of mind at the time. Fleming borrowed from his surroundings, as he had done with all his writing up to that point, to include places he had seen. One such location was a motel in the Adirondacks in