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"As the ninth novel in Fleming's Bond series opens, Commander James Bond, Agent 007 of Her Majesty's Secret Service, is being sent to a rural clinic called Shrublands, having been found to be unfit after his most recent physical.
The purpose of the clinic and its "nature-cure" is to bring Bond back to full health, but events conspire to prevent this. Having become inquisitive about a fellow patient, Bond discovers that the man is a member of a criminal organization, but not before the killer becomes aware of Bond's snooping.
Surviving the man's attempt to kill him, Bond retaliates in a nonlethal manner and calmly returns to his duties in London.
A week later, Bond receives an urgent message to come to headquarters at once. On the way, Bond only narrowly survives the man's second assassination attempt when his assailant is, himself, killed by a hit man. Feeling that a murder attempt and an urgent summons on the same day are a bit too coincidental, Bond resolves to investigate.
His inquiries are cut short, however, when he learns the reason why he has been called: a for-profit terrorist group calling itself SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion) has stolen a pair of nuclear bombs and is blackmailing NATO for a sum of 100,000,000 pounds!
Sent to the Bahamas to search for the bombs on little more than a hunch from M., Bond expects to find nothing, but soon comes to suspect a local playboy named Emilio Largo of being a member of SPECTRE.
Teaming up with his old friend Felix Leiter, Bond seduces Largo's ravishing mistress Domino Vitale and begins spying on her lover, soon discovering the awful truth: Largo is not only a part of the conspiracy, but is also SPECTRE's Deputy Supreme Commander!
Now, Bond must find a way to capture both Largo and the bombs before the master criminal can set them off near a military installation and a major city."
James Craver, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%
Tone of story
- Dry-cynical
Time/era of story:
- 1960's-1970's
Spying/Terrorism Thriller
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Who's the terrorist enemy here?
- generic terrorists
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 20's-30's
How much violence does he/she use?
- a significant amount
Ethnicity/Race
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
Motive of antagonist
- money/treasure
The antagonists are:
- foreign organized crime
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- bulging muscles
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- The Caribbean
Water?
Yes
Water:
- pleasure/love boat
- swimming on
- scuba under
- submarining
- feeding sharks
- drowning
City?
Yes
City:
- wealthy
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Part of a series?
Yes
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies
How many deaths?
- 8 or more
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- descript. of breasts
Unusual forms of death
- poisoning
- frying (electrocuted)
- drowned
- impaled
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
- exploded into bits
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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