He received exceptionally high marks for physical endurance, logic, and Psychological Ops exercises. His first assignment was at the British Embassy in Kingston , Jamaica. He was promoted to Ops Specialist simultaneous with this posting. He worked back-channel sources to aid in solving a minor crisis between the U. At the age of 38 in , Bond was promoted to "Double-O" "00" status, becoming the youngest agent in MI6 history to do so.
The ultra-secret "00" Branch is the elite of the Secret Intelligence Service. These covert agents, known as "double-Os", have proven themselves capable enough in the field to be entrusted with the license to kill - the authorization to, at their own discretion, commit assassination and acts that might be otherwise considered murder in order to complete their missions, without having to seek permission from headquarters first.
Bond earned his stripes in the "00" Branch by killing two people, Section Chief Dryden - who had been selling secrets from within MI6 - and Dryden's contact. Bond was consequently granted "00" status and awarded the infamous code number "". On his first mission as agent , Bond and an agent named Carter worked cooperatively in an attempt to capture international bomb-maker, Mollaka.
Bond pursued Mollaka through the jungle, up an enormously high construction site, where the two engaged brutally in hand-to-hand combat, and finally to the Nambutu Embassy, where he attempted to arrest the suspected bombmaker. However, since Bond found himself surrounded by Nambutu soldiers, he manages to escape after he shot and killed Mollaka and caused an explosion that partly also destroyed the embassy.
The incident infuriated the British government, as Bond had only been instructed to capture Mollaka, but the criminal's cell phone led Bond to discover a terrorist plot to blow up a gigantic prototype Skyfleet airliner at Miami International Airport.
Bond managed to stop the terrorists from succeeding and killed a man named Carlos , who had replaced Mollaka as the criminal responsible for destroying the airliner. Bond and M in Casino Royale. Following this success, M informed Bond that the mastermind of the incident was a man known as Le Chiffre , who served as private banker to terrorists. Le Chiffre had been using his clients' money to short sell successful companies and then would engineer terrorist attacks to sink their stock values so he could make a fortune.
When Bond foiled Le Chiffre's plan to destroy the Skyfleet , the banker was left with a major loss since he had shorted the company's shares. Bond plays poker with Le Chiffre. Having lost several high-ranking operatives in his organization and needing to recoup his clients' money, Le Chiffre had set up a high-stakes poker tournament at the Casino Royale in Montenegro.
Hoping that a defeat would force Le Chiffre to aid the British government in exchange for protection from his creditors, MI6 entered Bond into the tournament. She was sent to make sure that Bond adequately managed the funds provided by MI6. Bond overcame several obstacles: He was forced to save Le Chiffre from a vengeful Steven Obanno which resulted in the latter's death, he was beaten in the game but Felix Leiter bought him back in, and he was also poisoned by Le Chiffre's sweetheart, Valenka , but Vesper manages to save him.
Despite everything, Bond went on to win the tournament and since then James Bond has proven himself to be one of the most capable officers in MI6's employ. Bond being tortured by Le Chiffre. Soon after, Vesper gets a call from Mathis. Bond suspects something, follows her and sees her kidnapped. He then goes to rescue her. As he races to find Le Chiffre, he swerves his car when he sees a bounded Vesper on the road.
The impact of the swerve injures him, rendering him unconscious and Bond and Vesper are captured by Le Chiffre and his cronies. At a nearby tramp steamer, Bond is stripped and tied to a chair, where Le Chiffre proceeds to torture him of using a rope to strike his scrotum. Bond refuses to give information to Le Chiffre the password to the account where the winnings are held.
Le Chiffre is about to castrate Bond when Mr. White arrives, murdering Le Chiffre's goons and personally executing Le Chiffre. Bond regains consciousness at a hospital where Mathis, who is beside him, reveals that he is the mastermind behind his and Vesper's capture. MI6 agents appear to capture Mathis. Vesper visits Bond to confess her love for him and a Swiss banker gives them the password. Bond resigns to go on vacation with Vesper.
Bond watches as Vesper Lynd dies. In Venice , Italy , M phones Bond about his resignation and that the British government wants the money returned. Vesper arranges a secret meeting to a man named Gettler and his cronies.
Bond ensues a gunfight with the men, where he wins and kills them. Vesper, however, locks herself and takes her own life by drowning herself. Bond manages to recover her and attempts to revive but to no avail. White's number through Vesper's cell phone and tracks him down. Bond tracks Mr. White, anonymously phones him and shoots him in the leg. Bond appears, saying to White "The name's Bond. James Bond. After shooting Mr.
White in the leg, Bond has captured Mr. White and manages to evade pursuit by his various minions in a chaotic car chase in his Aston Martin DBS V12 painted in black. After interrogating him with M at a closed off location, Bond and M are both betrayed by a disguised minion Mitchell who, after a toss and tumble, is later dispatched and killed by James.
White takes this time to vanish and is never seen or heard from again except for being briefly spotted at the opera among other Quantum members. Bond and M return to London and search Mitchell's flat, discovering through tagged banknotes that Mitchell had a contact in Haiti. Bond tracks the contact, Edmund Slate , and learns that Slate is a hitman sent to kill Camille Montes at the behest of her lover, environmentalist Dominic Greene.
While observing her subsequent meeting with Greene, Bond learns that Greene is helping an exiled Bolivian General Medrano —who murdered Camille's family—to overthrow his government and become the new president in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.
Bond then makes it his mission to go after Greene when he realizes his connection to Vesper's death. He follows Greene to a performance of Tosca in Bregenz, Austria. Bond infiltrates Quantum's meeting at the opera, exposing the identities of Quantum's executive board to Bill Tanner , and a gunfight ensues. M assumes that Bond killed him, and has his passports and credit cards revoked when he refuses to return home and debrief.
Bond seduces her before they attend a fundraising party Greene holds that night. At the party, Bond rescues Camille from Greene. Leaving, Bond and Camille are pulled over by Bolivian police working for Medrano. They had earlier attacked Mathis and put him in the boot of Bond's car to frame Bond; and, in the ensuing struggle, Mathis is killed. Bond and M in the closing scene of Quantum of Solace.
He is forced to go rogue, after Fields is killed off by mysterious assailants in a similar manner seen in Goldfinger. He is aided by Camille in his raid on Greene and his organization in Bolivia where he foils his plan on controlling the nation's water supply.
Bond kills the Chief of Police for betraying Mathi, and confronts Greene. Meanwhile, Camille kills Medrano, avenging the murders of her parents and sister. The struggle leaves the hotel largely destroyed by fire. After a frenzied brawl, Bond captures Greene and interrogates him about the Quantum organization, before leaving him stranded in the desert with only a can of engine oil.
Bond and Camille kiss before they part. Bond in Istanbul in Skyfall. A French mercenary called Patrice eludes Bond and ransacks the safehouse, where he fights and kills Ronson and steals the computer drive.
Bond, armed with his standard-issue Walther PPK , finds Ronson's body and briefly tries to save the latter, but M coerces him into pursuing the Frenchman. Leaving Ronson to die, Bond and Moneypenny briefly pursue him in a van, but they eventually corner him in the Grande Bazaar.
The local police try to defuse the situation. Patrice unsheathes a machine-gun and mows down the police, cornering Bond. Moneypenny distracts him and Patrice tries to escape on a motorbike, but Bond steals a motorbike himself and gives chase, going over the rooftops of the Bazaar.
The chase drives the two of them to a bridge, where Patrice boards the top of the train and Bond heroically severs the motorbike in an attempt at boarding the train too. After a destructive chase, Bond corners Patrice and they fight. Patrice manages to hold out against the 00 agent and soon manages to gain the upper hand, despite the use of a knife, a machine-gun and a brilliantly convenient chain. In the ensuing brawl, Bond is about to beat Patrice before Moneypenny unwillingly shoots him.
Bond is thrown from the train, into the waterfall, allowing Patrice to escape with the computer drive. Moneypenny reports that Bond is down. It is revealed that Bond has survived the bullet, the fall, the water and the asphyxiation. He is somewhere in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, engaging in gambling, alcoholism ,and prostitution almost obsessively. When news arrives of the attack on MI6 headquarters, Bond finally decides to go back to England and protect M.
He breaks into her flat one night and reveals his survival. He and M argue fiercely and then Bond decides to rejoin MI6, since being officially dead means he isn't part of MI6 anymore.
He is taken to the new MI6 headquarters in the War Rooms and immediately engages in training. Meanwhile, Bill Tanner tells him about the situation with M's attacker. He then engages in psychological tests, where he scornfully labels M as 'bitch'. Then, after digging into his biography, the examiner mentions 'Skyfall'. The examiner repeats several times, but Bond remains extensively silent. Then, with a callous gesture of disinterest, he mutters 'Done' and leaves the room.
He actually fails the tests because of his sexual engagement, excessive use of drugs and alcohol. He was also unhinged by the mention of Skyfall, triggering immense childhood trauma. He then removes the bullets that Patrice gave him during the chase on the train, gets them analyzed. He identifies Patrice as a serial killer-for-hire and is assigned to pursue and apprehend the mercenary so they can discover the identity of his paymaster.
He meets Gareth Mallory , who coldly suggests that Bond 'stays dead' since very few agents get the opportunity to retire so peacefully. Bond makes it clear that it is because he puts his country before his ego.
Mallory, whom Bond deduced to be a former prisoner of the IRA A feat that expresses extreme bravery and patriotic loyalty , leaves with a sarcastic demand not to 'cock it up'. He then meets with his Quartermaster, a teenager who is also an intellectual genius, as he liked to boast. Bond remains sarcastically skeptical of Q 's competence because of his age, to which Q wittily retorts by calmly noting his exceptional aptitude with computers.
He also gives Bond a distress signal device, and M dutifully sends him to Macau, where he hunts down Patrice. Bond after witnessing Patrice 's death in Shanghai. He corners Patrice at the top of a building, where he is about to make a kill. Bond stalks the man right up to the moment where Patrice completes the kill. Then Bond tries to sneak-attack him. Patrice recognizes him from the motorbike chase and turns around and fires just as Bond attacks.
But Patrice misses, Bond smashes into him and they fight briefly, ending with the French mercenary hanging over the edge of the building. Bond angrily interrogates him, but Patrice remains silent and commits suicide, falling to his death. Bond reacts furiously, scolding himself. And then he spots a woman in a backless black dress, staring at him malevolently. He then tracks the woman to a casino, where Moneypenny reveals that the man who stole the list has put the first handful of names on YouTube.
They flirt until he deduces that her 'bodyguards' are using fear to manipulate her. He deduces that she was once a teenage prostitute at the age of twelve when the man who stole the list saved her and used her as a contact and, for his own means, a sex slave.
She reacts angrily, but he remains calm to her. She reveals that her bodyguards are going to kill him if he tries to leave. She tells him the location of her boat, and that she will take him to her employer. Bond lets her leave, then he himself attempts to leave.
Bond sarcastically replies, then fights back. The skirmish takes him and the surviving thug into the sandpit, where a Komodo dragon is circling them. The thug regains consciousness and they fight brutally.
After using Q's cunning devices to survive, Bond finally manages to kill the thug, who is later eaten by the Komodo dragon. The following morning, they arrive on a deserted island, where the man revealed to be Raoul Silva tricked the settlers into retreating after a faux gas leak.
Bond is left alone in a church hall and Silva reveals himself. They talk for a long time and Silva reveals that he attacked M's headquarters and hired Patrice. He then unearths that M lied and that he failed all the tests, but M sent him anyway because she trusted him to save the day. Bond deliberately misses in an attempt to save her life, but Silva arrogantly sees through him and shoots her in the head, killing her and spilling the scotch.
Bond shows no emotion to this, but he is clearly devastated. He then attacks, overwhelming and killing Silva's thugs in a matter of seconds, and then holds Silva at gunpoint. Bond reveals that he called MI6 after arriving on the island and Silva is overpowered and arrested.
Silva is interrogated, where he reveals his affairs with M and that she left him for dead with the Chinese just before the Hong Kong handover after his illegal cyberterrorist activities. M reluctantly reveals that Silva's real name was Tiago Rodriguez and that he would have been an excellent agent if not for his sexual appetites and criminal habits.
Bond and Q then try and hack Silva's computer, but Silva then outthinks them and escapes. Bond leaves and starts a lengthy chase through the London Underground, which leads to several counts of violence and illegal activity. Silva outmatches Bond several times and storms M's trial.
Bond arrives just in time and an intense shootout breaks out. M is led to a car to take her to a safe house, but Bond "takes her hostage" and they escape to Skyfall Lodge. Bond is traumatized by his return to his childhood home, and eventually meets Kincade , who helps to arm Bond with several minor weapons, but they make up for it with several traps and explosives.
Silva's men arrive and they easily overpower them. Then Silva arrives with a large number of mercenaries and a climatic battle ensues. Bond duels Silva, who arrives by helicopter. He holds out at length against the cyberterrorist, but Bond then decides to destroy the lodge in order to kill Silva's men and, with luck, Silva himself.
Bond sets up numerous explosives and, before leaving through a priest's hole he used as a boy, he remarks that 'He always hated this place. The helicopter and all but two of Silva's men are incinerated, but Silva narrowly survives.
Bond then confronts Silva on the frozen lake, but Silva tries to kill him, ending with Bond and one of Silva's men fighting under the lake. Bond gains the upper hand and arrives just in time to kill Silva, once and for all, by hurling a meat cleaver at him from the other end of the chapel.
Silva's spine is severed, he begins to bleed internally. Bond reveals himself and sarcastically remarks, " Last rat standing ," in reference to their conversation back on the island. Silva dies, leaving Bond the last living person whom M sees before she succumbs to her wounds from the skirmish and dies. With M dead, Gareth Mallory takes her position. Bond returns to London, triumphant and still alive yet traumatized and exhausted from the ordeal.
He briefly confronts Moneypenny, who reveals that M left her Churchill bulldog -- an ornament that survived Silva's attack -- to Bond in her will. Bond accepts Moneypenny as his secretary and goes in to meet Mallory. After the battle, Mallory was left with his arm in a sling. He is now head of MI6 and remarks that he was unused to field work, considering his injury a trophy.
Mallory hands him a file with his name and serial number on it. He asks Bond if he is ready to get back to work. Eager for the next chance to save the day, Bond replies, " With pleasure, M. With pleasure".
He and Estrella enter a hotel and Bond leaves, on the way to assassinate Sciarra. Bond walks the rooftops of Mexico City and eavesdrops on Sciarra's conversation. Bond then kills Sciarra's associates and explodes half of an apartment block. Bond manages to escape the crumbling building and chases Sciarra. After a short chase, a helicopter lands and picks up Sciarra, as requested by Sciarra.
Bond enters the helicopter and engages in a ferocious fight with Sciarra. Bond manages to kick Sciarra out of the chopper, when it is completing degree turns in the air. James kicks out the pilot and uses the helicopter to get back to London. Back in London, the new M Gareth Mallory is not pleased with Bond because he "caused an international incident" by blowing up a block of houses with innocent civilians.
Bond responds that the explosion had nothing to do with him, he was merely "taking an overdue holiday". He is very friendly to his new employee Bond despite the fact, that his nine eyes program will get Bond fired. Bond calls Denbigh C. On his way back from M Bond is joint by Moneypenny, who tells him that the forensic department has released personal things from Bond from the destroyed Skyfall Lodge.
Bond asks her to bring them to his apartment later that evening. Moneypenny enters his apartment and gives him a black box. He also revealed that he killed Sciarra because of a video message from the deceased Olivia Mansfield the M before Mallory, which told him to find Sciarra, kill him, and visit his funeral.
Moneypenny is clearly shocked at this. As she leaves, Bond sits down on his sofa and sees through the black box. In it is a letter that announces the temporary guardianship of Franz Oberhauser to a twelve year old orphan James Bond. There is also a photo of Franz and Bond skiing and another person, whose face is unseeable thanks to the flames. Denbigh also plans to use drones to do the work of 00 agents. Then Q gives Bond an exploding watch and injects him with smart blood, to track his movements and health status from everywhere in the world.
Bond asks Q to make him disappear to which Q states that the program of smartblood could not work properly for the first 48 hours.
Bond then goes to Rome to visit the funeral of Marco Sciarra. There he meets the widow of Marco Sciarra, Lucia Sciarra. He introduces himself after all other guests left, as a life insurance agent and questions her grieving. Lucia leaves and drives to her villa outside Rome. She then puts on music and pours herself a glass of Scotch, as she knows that her bodyguards are going to kill her. Just as they are about to execute her, Bond, who had followed her from the graveyard intervenes and kills the two men.
Lucia isn't grateful for her rescue, but Bond invites her for a drink inside. When Lucia finds out that Bond killed her husband, and despite hating Marco slaps Bond. Bond then drags her to a wall and she admits of feeling lonely and tells him that the organization her husband was part of will meet that night at the Palazo Cadenza in Rome to choose a replacement for her husband.
Bond then sleeps with her. At midnight Bond leaves Lucia, leaving her the phone number of Felix Leiter, his colleague and friend of the CIA who will get her out of Italy and to safety. Bond is coming past the suspicious guard by showing him the octopus ring on his finger that he stole from Sciarra while battling with him.
Bond overhears the meeting standing at a balcony. First Doctor Vogel tells the group at a large table on the ground floor that they made large progress with taking migrant women into the leisure industry, which points to white pornographic slavery.
She is interrupted by doors opening and a man coming in. As he stands at the table, all get up to show their respects. A few moments pass before the man says, that he didn't want to interrupt, to which all sit down again and Doctor Vogel finishes her report. After that, Moreau , the spokesman brings the matter to the death of Marco Sciarra and asks the Spaniard Guerra , at the other side of the table, if he wants to fulfill Sciarra's task by going to Altausee and terminate "the Pale King".
Guerra emphatically agrees. After a short and quiet discussion from Moreau with the man who came in, Moreau asks if there any others who want to have this position. Hinx comes in and beats Guerra, gouges his eyes o,ut and breaks his neck. Guerra falls to the floor. Hinx wipes his bloody finger with a handkerchief and takes Guerra's place. The man who came in then welcomes James and calls him a cuckoo. James, compromised battles the man from the door and escapes the building and gets into his car.
He is chased by Hinx. After evading an old man in his car driving very slowly and listening to opera, Bond calls Moneypenny whom he finds out has spent the night with "a friend of hers". Moneypenny then informs him that he already met with the "Pale King".
As she sends him a photo to his cellphone, Bond recognizes the man as his enemy Mr. White, head of the Quantum organization, who escaped custody nine years prior. Moneypenny informs him that he was last seen in Altausee four months ago. Bond asks her to search the file for Franz Oberhauser, whom he thinks is the man who came in at the meeting of the organization. Bond then tries to use some of the gadgets of his car, but most of them won't work. Bond can evade Hinx by driving his car into the Tiber and escaping it via a parachute.
Bond then travels to Altausee in Austria to find Mr. He finds him in an old abandoned hut near the lake. As Bond finds him, Mr. White is sitting in a panic room with a morphine intravenous infusion. White thinks Bond wants to kill him and pleads with him to make it quick. White reveals that he dropped out of the organization due to them expanding in sex trafficking, and as a result was poisoned with thallium, with only a few weeks to live.
White shouts a Bond that the leader is everywhere. Bond reads through the lines and concludes that White is protecting someone. As his wife left White long ago, Bond concludes that it must be his daughter. Bond reassures him that he will protect her, if White tells him where to find the leader of the organization. White is uncooperative until Bond disarms himself. White takes Bond's gun and tells him that his daughter works at the Hoffler clinic and that she can lead him to L'Americain.
He then farewells Bond and shoots himself in the head. He finds a wallet with a picture of younger M. He comes to the clinic as a patient of Doctor Swann's and in the interview he is being asked questions about his life style and his work, before he reveals that he knew her father and that he is dead.
Madeleine is shocked by this and orders Bond to leave. Bond surrenders to her wishes and stays in the clinic's bar, where to his annoyance, alcohol isn't served. Bond asks Q if he can find out more from the octopus ring, since White stared at it, when Bond gave it to him. Q reluctantly agrees and goes to his hotel. Bond realizes that Swann is kidnapped by Hinx and fellow henchmen. Bond shakes the security guards of the clinic off and pursues Hinx in an Aircraft. He rams Hinx's car several times, and when he causes an accident the car comes to a halt.
Bond gets out of the demodulated aircraft and takes the shocked Madeleine out of the car. Madeleine is angry at Bond, shouting at him because he blew her cover.
But Bond can convince her that he is the only chance for her to survive. Then they go to the hotel, where Q is staying, Q tells them that there was another terrorist attack in Kapstadt after attacks in Hamburg and Tunisia. White belonged to the organization, that Oberhauser heads Q doesn't know the name of the organization, but Swann answers that its name is Spectre and that she knows it because her father had been part of it for years. She also reveals that in contrary to Bond's assumption L'Americain isn't a person but a place.
The next days, Bond and Madeleine travel to Tangier in Marocco. After they found their way through oriental markets and they find L'Americain which turns out to be an old, modest hotel. In a sideway. Madeleine takes her to a suite and tells Bond that her father visited this room with her mother at her wedding night and that they came back every year took them with her.
White continued coming back, after the divorce. Bond is shocked at this but still searches the place. He finds nothing and a drunken Madeleine tells Bond that she loathed her father for his dangerous lifestyle.
Bond defends the deceased White but Madeleine wants to go to bed. The next morning Bond sees a mouse disappearing through a hole in the wall, and finds out that there is a secret room. Bond finds a wall full of photos of Madeleine and Mr. The London-born writer said she would, however, look to the depth of the world in Fleming's original books for character inspiration.
Sherwood, 32, also confirmed that "old favourites" including Bond's trusted secretary Ms Moneypenny and spy boss M, will return in the trilogy. Speaking to host Anita Rani, she said it was a "life-long dream come true" to be given the opportunity to write a Bond novel. Her work will add to the 40 officially-licenced James Bond books authored by six writers, including Sebastian Faulks, Kingsley Amis and Anthony Horowitz, since She said that while it was an honour to put her name alongside such male contemporaries, she was most looking forward to joining an "incredible continuation line" of women who have helped bring Bond's world to life.
The Moneypenny Diaries, considered an official Bond literary spin-off, was co-written by Samantha Weinberg. Sherwood said she aims to reflect the "complexity and rounded characters of the women in the books" that she feels has sometimes "been overlooked" in the films. In recognition of this, the Bond film franchise recently turned to Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge to freshen the gender dynamics in the script for No Time to Die - Daniel Craig's long-delayed final outing as James Bond released in September.
It's a journey Sherwood plans to continue with her contribution to the literary Bond universe. And in some ways the world Fleming was writing about didn't exist. He was writing about this luxurious, materialistic world where Britain had major significance on the international stage If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.
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