The novel seen on the edge of the bathtub when Jack is taking a bath i the James Bond spy thriller s "From Russia With Love" by Ian Fleming. President John F. Kennedy listed this as among his ten favorite novels of all time. That list was published in "LIFE" Magazine on 3/17/61. Possibly as a result, the producers of the Bond films, Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, decided to make From Russia with Love (1963) the second James Bond movie. According to the book "Death of a President" (1964) by William Raymond Manchester, From Russia with Love (1963) was the last film JFK ever saw, which was in a private screening in the White House on 11/20/63.