Dr.
No (1962)
John Strangways, the British Intelligence (SIS) Station
Chief in Jamaica, is killed. In response, British agent James Bond—also known as 007—is sent to
Jamaica to investigate the circumstances. During his investigation Bond meets
Quarrel, a Cayman fisherman, who had been working with Strangways around the
nearby islands to collect mineral samples. One of the islands was Crab Key,
home to the reclusive Dr. No.Bond visits the island, where he meets a local shell diver, Honey Ryder. The three are attacked by No's men, who kill Quarrel using a flame-throwing armoured tractor; Bond and Honey are taken prisoner. Dr. No informs them he is a member of SPECTRE, the SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion, and he plans to disrupt the Project Mercury space launch from Cape Canaveral with his atomic-powered radio beam. Bond and Honey escape from the island, killing No and blowing up his lair in the process.
From
Russia with Love (1963)
SPECTRE's expert planner
Kronsteen devises a plot to steal a Lektor cryptographic
device from the Soviets and sell it back to them while exacting
revenge on Bond for killing their agent Dr. No; ex-SMERSH operative Rosa Klebb
in charge of the mission. She recruits Donald "Red" Grant as an
assassin and Tatiana Romanova, a cipher clerk at the Soviet
consulate in Istanbul,
as the unwitting bait.Bond travels to Turkey and meets with Ali Kerim Bey, the MI6 officer in Turkey. Between them, they obtain the Lektor, and the three escape with the device on the Orient Express. However, they are followed by Grant, who kills Kerim Bey and a Soviet security officer. Grant pretends to be another British agent and meets Bond. Over dinner Grant drugs Romanova, then overcomes Bond. Bond tricks Grant into opening Bond's attaché case in the manner that detonates its tear gas booby trap, allowing Bond to attack and kill him. Bond and Romanova escape with the Lektor to Venice. Rosa Klebb, disguised as a hotel maid, attempts to steal the Lektor and kill Bond, but ends up being shot by Romanova.
Goldfinger (1964)
Bond is ordered to observe
bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger: he sees Goldfinger cheating at cards and stops
him by distracting his employee, who is subsequently killed by Goldfinger's
Korean manservant Oddjob.
Bond is then instructed to investigate Goldfinger's gold smuggling and he
follows the dealer to Switzerland. Bond is captured when he reconnoitres
Goldfinger's plant and is drugged; he is taken to Goldfinger's Kentucky stud
farm and is imprisoned. He escapes briefly to witness Goldfinger's meeting with
U.S. mafiosi, who have brought the materials he needs for an operation to rob
Fort Knox.Bond is recaptured after hearing the details of the operation, but he subsequently seduces Pussy Galore, Goldfinger's private pilot and convinces her to inform the American authorities. Goldfinger's private army break into Fort Knox and access the vault, where Bond fights and kills Oddjob, while US troops battle with Goldfinger's army outside. Bond's plane is hijacked by Goldfinger, but Bond struggles with him, and shoots out a window, creating an explosive decompression, killing Goldfinger.
Thunderball (1965)
Bond investigates the hijacking
of an Avro
Vulcan loaded with two atomic bombs, which had been taken by SPECTRE. The
organisation demands a ransom for the return of the plane and bombs. Bond
follows a lead to the Bahamas, where he meets up with his CIA counterpart and
friend Felix
Leiter. The pair suspect a rich playboy, Emilio
Largo, and search the area around his boat and then the area where they
think his boat may have travelled. After finding the plane—but without the
nuclear devices on board—the two agents arrange for it to be tracked and
ambushed once the bombs are being moved by Largo.
You
Only Live Twice (1967)
007 is sent to Japan to
investigate the hijacking of an American spacecraft
by an unidentified spacecraft. Upon his arrival, Bond is contacted by Aki,
assistant to the Japanese secret service leader Tiger Tanaka. Bond established
that the mastermind behind the hijacking is Ernst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE and follows
the trail to Blofeld's island headquarters.Tanaka's ninja troops attack the island, while Bond manage to distract Blofeld and create a diversion which allows him to open the hatch, letting in the ninjas. During the battle, Osato is killed by Blofeld, who activates the base's self-destruct system and escapes. Bond, Kissy, Tanaka, and the surviving ninjas escape through the cave tunnel before it explodes, and are rescued by submarine.
On
Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
While searching for Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE,
Bond saves Tracy
di Vicenzo on the beach from committing suicide by drowning, and later
meets her again in a casino. Bond then receives information from Marc-Ange
Draco, the head of the European crime syndicate Unione Corse
and Tracy's father, about Blofeld's Swiss solicitor. Bond breaks into the
solicitors office and establishes Blofeld is corresponding with the London College
of Arms. Posing as an emissary of the college, Bond meets Blofeld, who has
established a clinical allergy-research institute atop Piz Gloria
in the Swiss
Alps. Bond soon establishes that Blofeld is brainwashing
his patients to distribute bacteriological warfare agents throughout various
parts of the world.Bond escapes from the clinic after Blofeld identifies him as the British agent. Bond arranges a raid on the clinic using men from Draco's organisation. The raid is a success, although Blofeld escapes. Bond marries Tracy, but she is murdered shortly afterwards by Irma Brunt, Blofeld's partner.
Diamonds
Are Forever (1971)
Bond is tasked with investigating
a major diamond smuggling ring which begins in Africa and runs through Holland
and the UK to the USA. Disguised as professional smuggler and murderer Peter
Franks, Bond travels to Amsterdam to meet contact Tiffany
Case: he is given the diamonds and travels on to the US, where he is met by
Felix Leiter. Bond moves through the chain, which leads to the Whyte House, a
casino-hotel owned by the reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte.Bond's follows the diamonds to a pick-up by Bert Saxby, Whyte's head of security, and then onto a research laboratory owned by Whyte, where he finds that a satellite is being built by a laser refraction specialist, Professor Dr. Metz. Suspecting Whyte, Bond tries to confront him, but instead meets Blofeld, who captures the agent and explains to him that the satellite can blow up nuclear missiles. Blofeld admits that he intends to auction it to the highest bidder. Bond escapes and frees the captive Whyte and they establish that Blofeld is using an offshore oil rig as his base. Bond attacks the rig, stopping Blofeld's operation and dispersing his organisation.
Live
and Let Die (1973)
James Bond is sent to investigate
the murder of three British MI6 agents, all of whom have been killed within 24
hours. He discovers the victims were all separately investigating the
operations of Dr. Kananga, the dictator of a small Caribbean island, San
Monique. He also establishes that Kananga also acts as Mr. Big, a ruthless and
cunning gangster.Upon visiting San Monique, Bond determines the Kananga is producing two tons of heroin and is protecting the poppy fields by exploiting locals' fear of voodoo and the occult. Through his alter ego, Mr. Big, Kananga plans to distribute the heroin free of charge at his Fillet of Soul restaurants, which will increase the number of addicts. Bond is captured by Kananga, but he escapes, killing Kananga and destroying the poppy crop.
The
Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
After receiving a golden bullet
with James Bond's code "007" etched into its surface M relieves Bond
of a mission locating a British scientist, Gibson, who has invented the
"Solex agitator", a device to harness solar power,
thereby solving the energy crisis. The bullet signifies Bond is a
target of assassin Francisco Scaramanga and Bond sets out
unofficially to find him. From a spent golden bullet, Bond tracks Scaramanga to
Macau, where he
sees Scaramanga's mistress collecting golden bullets at a casino. Bond
follows her to Hong Kong, where he witnesses the murder of Gibson and the theft
of the Solex agitator. Bond is subsequently assigned to retrieve the agitator
and assassinate Scaramanga.Bond meets with Hai Fat, a wealthy Thai entrepreneur suspected of arranging Gibson's murder, and is captured, but subsequently escapes. He tracks Scaramanga to an island in Red Chinese waters, where the two men fight a duel: Bond kills the assassin.
The
Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Bond is tasked with investigating
the disappearance of British and Soviet ballistic missile submarines and the
subsequent offer to sell a submarine tracking system. Bond works alongside
Major Anya
Amasova of the KGB.
The pair track the plans across Egypt and identify the person responsible for
the thefts as shipping tycoon, scientist and anarchist Karl
Stromberg.Bond and Amasova follow a suspicious tanker owned by Stromberg and establish it is responsible for the missing submarines; the submarine in which they are travelling is also captured by Stromberg. Stromberg plans to destroy Moscow and New York, triggering nuclear war: he planned to then establish a new civilisation. Bond escapes, freeing the submariners captured from the other submarines and follows Stromberg to his headquarters, which he destroys, killing the tycoon in the process.
Moonraker (1979)
A Drax Industries Moonraker space
shuttle on loan is hijacked and Bond is ordered to investigate. Bond meets the
owner of the company, Hugo Drax and one of Drax's astronauts, Dr. Holly
Goodhead. Bond follows the trail to Venice, where he establishes that Drax is
manufacturing a nerve gas deadly to humans, but harmless to animals. Bond
again meets Goodhead and determines that she is a CIA agent.Bond travels to the Amazon looking for Drax's research facility, where he is captured. He and Goodhead pose as pilots on one of six space shuttles being sent by Drax to a hidden space station. There Bond finds out that Drax plans to destroy all human life by launching fifty globes containing the toxin into the Earth's atmosphere. Bond and Goodhead disable the radar jammer hiding the station from Earth and the US sends a platoon of Marines in a military shuttle. During the battle, Bond kills Drax and his station is destroyed.
For
Your Eyes Only (1981)
After a British spy boat sinks, a
marine archaeologist, Sir Timothy Havelock, is tasked to retrieve its Automatic
Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC) communication system before the Russians
do. After Havelock is murdered by Gonzales, a Cuban hit-man, Bond is ordered to
find out who hired Gonzales. While investigating, Bond is captured, but
Gonzales is subsequently killed by Havelock's daughter and she and Bond escape.
Bond identifies one of those present with Gonzales as Emile Leopold Locque and
so follows a lead to Italy and meets his contact, Luigi Ferrara, and a
well-connected Greek businessman and intelligence informant, Aris Kristatos.
Kristatos tells Bond that Locque is employed by Milos Columbo, Kristatos' former
organised crime partner.After Ferrara is murdered—and the evidence points to Columbo—Bond is captured by men working for Columbo. Columbo then explains that Locque was actually hired by Kristatos, who is working for the KGB to retrieve the ATAC. Bond and Melina recover the ATAC but are captured by Kristatos. They escape and follow Kristatos to Greece, where he is killed and the ATAC is destroyed by Bond.
Octopussy (1983)
Bond investigates the murder of
009, killed in East Berlin while dressed as a circus clown and carrying a
fake Fabergé
egg. An identical egg appears at auction and Bond establishes the buyer,
exiled Afghan prince, Kamal Khan is working with Orlov, a renegade
Soviet general, who is seeking to expand Soviet borders into Europe. Bond meets
Octopussy, a wealthy woman who leads the
Octopus cult. Bond finds out that Orlov has been supplying Khan with priceless
Soviet treasures, replacing them with replicas, while Khan has been smuggling
the real versions into the West, via Octopussy's circus troupe.Bond infiltrates the circus, and finds that Orlov replaced the Soviet treasures with a nuclear warhead, primed to explode at a US Air Force base in West Germany. The explosion would trigger Europe into seeking disarmament, in the belief that the bomb was a US one that detonated by accident, leaving its borders open to Soviet invasion. Bond deactivates the warhead and then returns to India, leading an assault on Khan's palace.
A View to a Kill
(1985)
Bond investigates millionaire
industrialist Max Zorin, who is trying to corner the world market in microchip. He establishes that Zorin was
previously a trained and financed by the KGB, but has now gone rogue. Zorin
unveils to a group of investors his plan to destroy Silicon
Valley which will give him a monopoly over microchip manufacture.Bond uncovers Zorin's plan is to detonate explosives beneath the lakes along the Hayward and San Andreas faults, which will cause them to flood. A larger bomb is also on site in the mine to destroy a "geological lock" that prevents the two faults from moving at the same time. Bond destroys the bombs, and subsequently kills Zorin.
The
Living Daylights (1987)
Bond aids the defection of KGB
officer General Georgi Koskov, by wounding a female
KGB sniper, Kara Milovy, a cellist. During his debriefing Koskov alleges KGB's
old policy of Smert Spioam, meaning Death to Spies,
has been revived by General Leonid Pushkin, the new head of the KGB. Koskov is
subsequently abducted from the safe-house and Bond is ordered to kill Pushkin.Bond tracks down Milovy and establishes she is Koskov's girlfriend and that the defection was staged. He subsequently finds out that Koskov is a friend of the arms dealer Brad Whitaker. After meeting Pushkin and faking his assassination by Bond, Bond investigates a scheme by Koskov and Whitaker to embezzle KGB funds and use them to purchase diamonds, which they then use to purchase drugs. After Koskov purchases the drugs, Bond destroys them. Koskov is subsequently arrested by Pushkin, while Bond kills Whitaker.
Licence
to Kill (1989)
Bond aids Felix Leiter in the
capture of drugs lord Franz Sanchez; Sanchez escapes and maims Leiter, killing
his wife. Bond swears revenge, but is ordered to return to duty by M. Bond
refuses, and M revokes his licence to kill, causing Bond to become a
rogue agent; although officially stripped of his status, he is unofficially
given help by Q.Bond journeys to Sanchez's home in the Republic of Isthmus and is taken onto Sanchez's staff, where he manages to raise Sanchez's suspicions against a number of his employees. When Bond is taken to Sanchez's main base and drugs refinery, he is recognised by one of Sanchez's men and captured. He escapes, destroying the refinery in the process, and pursues Sanchez, killing him.
GoldenEye (1995)
In 1986, Bond and Alec
Trevelyan—agent 006—infiltrate an illicit Soviet
chemical weapons facility and plant explosive charges. Trevelyan is shot, but
Bond escapes from the facility as it explodes. Nine years later, Bond witnesses
the theft by criminal organisation Janus of a prototype Eurocopter
Tiger helicopter that can withstand an electromagnetic pulse. Janus uses the
helicopter to steal the control disk for the dual GoldenEye satellite weapons,
using the GoldenEye to destroy the complex with an electromagnetic pulse; there
is one survivor of the attack, a programmer, Natalya Simonova.Bond investigates the attack and travels to Russia where he locates Simonova and learns that Trevelyan, who had faked his own death, was the head of Janus. Simonova tracks computer traffic to Cuba and she and Bond travel there and locate Trevelyan, who reveals his plan to steal money from the Bank of England before erasing all of its financial records with the GoldenEye, concealing the theft and destroying Britain's economy. Bond and Simonova destroy the satellite facility, killing Trevelyan and Grishenko in the process.
Tomorrow
Never Dies (1997)
Bond investigates the sinking of
a British warship in Chinese waters and the theft of one of the ship's cruise
missiles—and the shooting down of a Chinese fighter plane. He uncovers a link
with media baron Elliot Carver and finds out that Carver had purchased
of a GPS encoder on the black market.Bond comes across Chinese agent Wai Lin, who is also investigating the matter, and the two work together, establishing that Carver used the encoder to push the British ship off course and into Chinese waters. With the British fleet on their way to China, Bond and Wai Lin find Carver's stealth ship, board it and prevent the firing of a British cruise missile at Beijing. They blow a hole in the ship, exposing it to radar, leading to its sinking, and averting war between Britain and China.
The
World Is Not Enough (1999)
Bond recovers money for Sir
Robert King, a British oil tycoon and friend of M, but the money is
booby-trapped and kills King shortly afterwards. Bond traces the money to
Renard, a KGB agent-turned-terrorist, who had previously kidnapped King's
daughter Elektra. MI6 believes that Renard is targeting Elektra King a second
time and Bond is assigned to protect her: the pair are subsequently attacked.Bond visits Valentin Zukovsky and is informed that Elektra's head of security, Davidov, is in league with Renard: Bond kills Davidov and follows the trail to a Russian ICBM base in Kazakhstan. Posing as a Russian nuclear scientist, Bond meets American nuclear physicist Christmas Jones. The two witness Renard stealing the GPS locator card and a half quantity of weapons-grade plutonium from a bomb and set off an explosion, from which Bond and Jones escape. Elektra kidnaps M after she thinks Bond had been killed and Bond establishes that Elektra intends to create a nuclear explosion in a submarine in Istanbul in order to increase the value of her own oil pipeline. Bond frees M, kills Elektra and then disarms the bomb on the submarine and kills Renard.
Die
Another Day (2002)
Bond investigates North
Korean Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, who is illegally trading African conflict
diamonds for weaponry. Moon is apparently killed and Bond is captured and
tortured for 14 months, after which he is exchanged for Zao, Moon's assistant.
Despite being suspended on his return, he decides to complete his mission and
tracks down Zao to a gene therapy clinic, where patients can have their
appearances altered through DNA restructuring. Zao escapes, but the trail leads
to British billionaire Gustav Graves.Graves unveils a mirror satellite, "Icarus", which is able to focus solar energy on a small area and provide year-round sunshine for crop development. Bond discovers Moon has also undergone the gene therapy and has assumed the identity of Graves. Bond then exposes Moon's plan: to use the Icarus to cut a path through the Korean Demilitarized Zone with concentrated sunlight, allowing North Korean troops to invade South Korea and reunite the countries through force. Bond disables the Icarus controls, kills Moon and stops the invasion.
Casino
Royale (2006)
A reboot
of the series, with Bond winning his 00 status in the pre-credits
sequence. Bond is instructed to investigate the funding of terrorism. He tracks
down and kills a bomb-maker and takes his mobile phone. Searching through the
phone, Bond discovers a text message which he traces to Alex Dimitrios, and
then on to financer Le Chiffre. Le Chiffre's investments involve short-selling
stock in successful companies and then engineering terrorist attacks to sink
their share prices. Bond foils Le Chiffre's plan to destroy the prototype Skyfleet
airliner, which forces Le Chiffre to set up a high-stakes poker tournament at
the Casino Royale to recoup his fortune. Bond is instructed to beat le Chiffre
and is aided by a member of HM Treasury, Vesper Lynd.Bond beats Le Chiffre at the poker table, but Lynd is kidnapped by Le Chiffre after the game, as is Bond, who is captured whilst pursuing them; Lynd is ransomed for the money and Bond is tortured. Le Chiffre is subsequently killed by Mr. White, a liaison between Le Chiffre and a number of his clients. Bond learns that his poker winnings were never repaid to the Treasury, which Lynd as supposed to have done, and Bond establishes that she was a double agent. Bond pursues her and is attacked by members of White's organisation: he survives, but White takes the money and Lynd is killed. Bond subsequently finds and captures White.
Quantum
of Solace (2008)
Along with M, Bond interrogates
Mr. White regarding his organisation, Quantum. M's bodyguard, Mitchell, a double
agent, attacks M, enabling White to escape. Bond traces the organisation to
Haiti and a connection to environmentalist Dominic Greene.Bond uncovers a plot between Greene and an exiled Bolivian General, Medrano, to put Medrano in power in Bolivia while Quantum are given a monopoly to run the water supply to the country. Bond ascertains Quantum are damming Bolivia's supply of fresh water in order to force the price up. Bond attacks the hotel where Greene and Medrano are finalising their plans and leaves Greene stranded in the desert with only a tin of engine oil to drink. Bond then finds Vesper Lynd's former lover and member of Quantum, Yusef Kabira.
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