Bond
book: Octopussy and The
Living Daylights
Author: Ian Fleming
Publication
date: 23 June 1966
The two original stories, "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights", were both adapted for publication in comic strip format in the Daily Express in 1966–1967.
"Octopussy"
Secret
Service operative James Bond, code name 007, is assigned to apprehend a hero of
the Second World War implicated in a murder involving a cache of Nazi gold.
Bond appears briefly in this story, which is told mostly in flashback and from
the point of view of Major Dexter Smythe, the villain.
"The
Living Daylights"
An
unusually morose James Bond is assigned sniper duty to help British agent 272
escape from East Berlin. Bond's duty is to prevent a top KGB assassin codenamed
"Trigger" from killing 272 by eliminating the sniper.
"The
Property of a Lady"
James
Bond investigates a Secret Service employee, Maria Freudenstein, who is a
double agent about to be paid by her Russian keepers by auctioning a clock
crafted by Peter Carl Fabergé at Sotheby's in her name. The Russians have sent
the Resident Director of the KGB in London to attend the auction and underbid
for the item to push the price to the necessary value to pay for her services
as a double agent. Bond attends the auction in hopes of spotting this man;
after doing so the man is expelled from London as persona non grata.
"007
in New York"
A
brief tale in which Bond muses about New York City and his favourite recipe for
scrambled eggs, during a quick mission to the titular city to warn a female MI6
employee that her new boyfriend is a KGB agent. It is notable for including a
rare humorous conclusion and for its mention of Solange, a young lady of Bond's
intimate acquaintance who works in a shop, Abercrombie's, "appropriately
employed in their Indoor Games Department".
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