Chapter 2, Gran Turismo Summary

One day, prior to being abducted on the beach, Bond speeds his Bentley down a French roadway as he composes, in his mind, his letter of resignation from the Secret Service. About a year ago, Bond foiled the master criminal Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who stole a nuclear weapon and held the international community for ransom. For the last year, Bond has been assigned to hunt down Blofeld and anything that remains of his villainous organization SPECTRE. This job has been tedious and unrewarding, no more than plain police work, and Bond doubts that Blofeld is still alive or that SPECTRE could be reorganized. He is sick of the unadventurous assignment, and he plans to tender his resignation.

A woman in a white Lancia Flaminia Zagato Spyder races up behind Bond on the roadway and zooms past him. Bond is...