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Octopussy
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1966
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Not a novel. This is a thin collection of three
short stories which were gathered together after Fleming died. My
favourite is The Living Daylights which survived intact to the movie
of the same name. Bond is sent to kill a KGB sniper before the sniper
kills a defector. While waiting he notices a beautiful girl carrying
a cello. Later he realizes that the girl is the sniper and instead
of killing her he just wounds her. His companion in unimpressed with
Bond's behaviour and Bond replies "with any luck it'll cost me my double-o
number." In the movie he says "stuff my orders! I only kill
professionals." In either case it's the real Bond we are seeing.
Great stuff!
The Property of a Lady has Bond going to
an auction to spot a Russian agent who will be bidding for a lot.
Octopussy is in fact a non-Bond story about a soldier who found
some Nazi gold at the end of the war and committed murder to keep it.
Bond is sent out to Jamaica to arrest him. Both of these stories
are touched on in the movie Octopussy.
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