A Brief Guide to James Bond by Nigel Cawthorne

Author:Nigel Cawthorne
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849018296
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

The World is Not Enough (1999)

The film borrows its title from the Bond family motto, revealed by the College of Arms in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. It begins with Bond in the offices of a Swiss banker in Bilbao collecting money that is being returned to Sir Robert King. But an MI6 agent has been killed and Bond wants to know who did it. At gunpoint, the banker is about to tell him when he is killed by a knife in the back of the neck wielded by his secretary. One of the banker’s henchmen gets the drop on Bond, but is killed by a sniper. Bond then escapes through the window.

Back in MI6 headquarters in London, the money is returned to Sir Robert, an oil tycoon and a personal friend of M. However, the money has been impregnated with a chemical, turning it into a massive bomb that is detonated by a bug in Sir Robert’s lapel pin. The bomb blows a hole in the wall. Through it Bond sees the banker’s secretary on board a boat in the Thames. She tries to shoot him. He gives chase using Q’s latest mini-speedboat. At the Millennium Dome (now The O2), she tries to escape on a hot-air balloon. Bond is carried aloft on one of the mooring ropes and tries to persuade her to give herself up. But she prefers to kill herself.

At King’s funeral, Bond meets his daughter Elektra. M concludes that the most likely suspect in his murder is a terrorist named Renard. He had been shot earlier by a double-O agent. A bullet had lodged in his brain that would eventually kill him. But first it would leave him with increased powers of endurance and a progressive lack of feeling.

Renard had previously been involved in the kidnapping of Elektra. Sir Robert had turned to M for help. M had told him not to pay the ransom, in the hope that this would lead to the capture of Renard. However, Elektra seduced her guards and killed them, or so she said. Bond realizes that the money returned by the Swiss banker is the same amount as the ransom. It served as a message from Renard that he was going to kill Elektra.

Bond is sent to protect Elektra, who has taken over her father’s project, building a pipeline from the oilfield of Azerbaijan to the Mediterranean. He joins her on skis on an inspection of the route of the pipeline. They are attacked by a group of men on ‘parahawks’ – small fan-driven snowmobiles attached to para-sails. Bond sees them off and protects Elektra from the subsequent avalanche.

While Elektra recuperates in her house in Baku, Bond seeks out his old adversary Zukovsky, who runs a nearby casino. Zukovsky tells him that Renard is an ex-KGB man working for the Russian oil barons who want King’s pipeline stopped, as it is a rival to their own. Elektra turns up at the casino and loses $1 million to Zukovsky on the turn of a card.

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