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Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle & Sharpe

10,000 Birds

In it, Bloch becomes LeChiffre, Fleming becomes Mathis and Popov becomes 007 (it does sound a bit better than Tricycle Licensed to Kill), while the rest of the gambling scene remains the same. Living in the Caribbean, in 1953 Fleming was writing the Casino Royale.