James Bond

James Bond, or Commander Bond, is a member of the Double O section at the Secret Service Headquarters. He is introduced as Commander Bond of the Research Department by M, who always addresses Bond as "007". His boss M frequently sends James Bond on assignments, like a projectile, to anywhere in the world there is a problem in the affairs of the Secret Service. The assignments are varied and in many different parts of the world. In this book, he goes to Jamaica to interrogate a major retired from the Royal Marines, he attends an auction at Sotheby's to unmask the London Resident Director of the KGB, he goes to West Berlin to engage in a sniper duel with the KGB trigger man during an attempted escape by an allied agent, and he goes to New York City.

Always traveling in first class, staying at nothing but the...