However…somebody, somewhere saw that there was a story to be told and CBS paid Ian Fleming $1,000 to adapt Casino Royale into a one-hour television adventure as part of its Climax! series.
Within a year of publication only 4,000 copies had sold across the whole of the States. The first editions hard and paper back versions. April 1955 saw Pan Books releasing the paperback version and selling 41,000 in the first year. A second print run later that month also sold out as did a third run of more than 8,000 books published in May 1954. All 4,728 copies sold out within a month. Perhaps it was the zeitgeist at the time that led to the surge of interest in espionage fiction but Casino Royale was an instant success… in the UK at least. Download the RunPee app for free: Read more about the RunPee app.
