My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The beginning of it all. Unpolished as all first novels, it is a great read and it’s easy to see how the phenomenon got started. All the pieces are here to set up a foundation for a franchise, and if this is a fairly simple story it is to leave room for you to get a good look at the character. Vesper is hugely underwritten and only illustrates just how amazing of an adaptation Neal Purvis, Robert Wade & Paul Haggis wrote for the 2006 film.