007 James Bond intervenes

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007 James Bond intervenes
Original title For Your Eyes Only
author Ian Fleming
First appearance 1960
original language English
James Bond book series
Goldfinger 007 James Bond intervenes Fireball

007 James Bond Intervenes is an anthology published in 1965 by Ian Fleming with short stories about the fictional secret agent James Bond . The English-language original For Your Eyes Only was publishedin 1960 and is the only anthology published during the author's lifetime.

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Death in the rearview mirror

Original title: From a View to a Kill ; Another German title: In the face of death

A secret service agent is shot dead on his motorcycle near Paris . James Bond , who happens to be in Paris, is given the task of investigating the murderer. Close to the crime scene, Bond discovers a hidden Russian earth bunker from which three men climb. Bond then disguises himself as a report driver to offer a target for the assassins . He is almost shot, but can kill the assassin. The earth bunker is being excavated.

For you personally

Original title: For Your Eyes Only ; Another German title: On a fatal mission

In Jamaica , the Havelock couple are asked if they would like to sell their property to a Major Gonzalez. When they refuse, they are murdered. Bond's boss M was a friend of the couple and privately gives Bond the job of eliminating Gonzales and the man behind named Van Hammerstein. Bond travels to Canada to shoot Van Hammerstein with a sniper rifle in his remote forest estate. In the forest, Judy Havelock, the couple's daughter, initially gets in his way, because she wants to avenge herself. Bond gets nervous because she is an "amateur" and could endanger his job. He leaves her to shoot Van Hammerstein with a crossbow. Bond kills Gonzales and his two helpers in the ensuing shootout and then brings himself and the slightly injured Judy to safety.

A minimum of consolation

Original title: Quantum of Solace ; Another German title: A Quantum of Solace

At a party in Nassau , Governor Bond tells the story of a Philip Masters and his wife.

Risky business

Original title: Risico ; Another German title: Risk

Bond meets Kristatos, a contact who tells him about a Columbo and his smuggling activities. However, the latter can capture Bond and convince them that Kristatos is behind the drug smuggling and tries to incite Bond against him. Together they pay a visit to Kristatos' warehouse where the raw opium is loaded. Bond shoots Kristatos as he tries to escape with his car.

The Hildebrand rarity

Original title: The Hildebrand Rarity

In the Seychelles, Bond travels with a certain Milton Krest on his boat. To legitimize his foundation, he has to find a fish, the Hildebrand rarity. Bond notices Krest torturing his wife Liz at night. After finding the fish, Bond finds Milton Krest dead a little later. The fish is in his mouth; Krest choked on it. Bond makes the body disappear, but would like to know whether Liz or his companion Barbey, who had openly opposed the capture and killing of this rarity, murdered Milton. However, history leaves this open.

expenditure

In Germany, further versions of the anthology were published under the title 007 James Bond - Death in the rear-view mirror and later 007 James Bond - In the face of death (without death in the rear-view mirror / From a View to a Kill ).

On June 28, 2013, the Cross Cult publisher published a complete new translation of the anthology by Stephanie Pannen and Anika Klüver under the book title In tödlicher Mission .

Ian Fleming: On a deadly mission . Cross Cult / Amigo Grafik, Ludwigsburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86425-084-2 .

filming

From a View to a Kill (death in the rearview mirror) was the Handlungsort Paris a template for the almost eponymous film View to a Kill ( A View to a Kill ) of the 1985th

For Your Eyes Only (For you personally) and Risico (Risky business) flowed into the plot of For Your Eyes Only ( For Your Eyes Only one) of the 1981st

The title Quantum of Solace was used for the 22nd James Bond film ( A Quantum of Solace , 2008). The plot of the film is not based on the short story.

Furthermore, the name of the figure appeared Milton Krest and the ship Wavekrest from The Hildebrand Rarity (The Hildebrand Rarity) in the film of 1989, license to kill ( License to Kill ).

In the 2015 film Specter , a sign with the name "Hildebrand" is attached to the London safehouse in which M and James Bond meet. This can be understood as a reference to The Hildebrand Rarity (Die Hildebrand Rarity) .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the Face of Death / Ian Fleming; [from the English by Willy Thaler, Friedrich Polakovics and Norbert Wölfl]. In: Helveticat. Swiss National Library NL, accessed on March 7, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Ian Fleming: In the Face of Death . 1st edition. Scherz Verlag, Bern; Munich; Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-502-51457-7 .
  3. ↑ 13 James Bond Easter eggs you need to look out for in Specter . In: Digital Spy. , October 26, 2015. Retrieved November 5, 2015.