The spy who loved me: a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming

Author:Ian Fleming [Fleming, Ian]
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780142003268
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2003-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

SPECTRE

people. Haven't I read about them somewhere? In the papers?" "I expect you have. Less than a year ago there was this business of the stolen atomic bombs. It was

called Operation Thunderball. Remember?" His eyes went far away.

"It was in the

Bahamas." "Oh, yes. Of course I remember. It was in all the papers I could

hardly believe it. It was like something out of a thriller. Why? Were you mixed

up in it?" James Bond smiled. "On the sidelines. But the point is that we never

cleaned up SPECTRE. The top man got away. It was a kind of independent spy

network—The Special Executive for Counterespionage, Terrorism, Revenge, and

Extortion,' they call themselves. Well, they've got going again and, as I say,

they came to hear that the Russians wanted Boris killed and somehow they found

out where he was. Don't ask me how. These people are too damned well informed

for comfort. So they put it to the top K.G.B. man in Paris, the local head of

the Russian Secret Service, that they'd do the job for one hundred thousand

pounds. Presumably Moscow agreed, because the next thing that happened was that

Ottawa—the famous Mounties—got on to us. They have a Special Branch that we work

with pretty closely on this sort of thing, and they reported that there was an

ex-Gestapo man in Toronto, chap called Horst Uhlmann, making contact with the

gangs there, and did we know anything about him? It seemed he wanted some

unspecified foreigner bumped off and was prepared to pay fifty thousand dollars

for the job. Well, two and two got put together, and some bright chap in our

show had a hunch this might be an attempt on Boris by the Russians. So"—James

Bond's mouth curled down—"I was sent out to look into the business." He smiled

at me. "You wouldn't rather switch on the television?" "Oh, no. Go on, please."

"Well, you know they've been having a lot of trouble in Toronto. It's anyway a

tough town, but now gang war has broken out in a big way, and you probably read

that the Mounties even went so far as to call in two top C.I.D. sleuths from

Scotland Yard to help them out. One of these C.I.D chaps had managed to plant a

smart young Canadian in 'the Mechanics,' which is the name of the toughest

Toronto gang, with affiliations over the border with Chicago and Detroit. And it

was this young man who got wind of Uhlmann and what he wanted done. Well, I and

my Mountie pals went to work and, to cut a long story short, we found out that

it was Boris who was the target and that the Mechanics had agreed to do the job

last Thursday—that's just about a week ago. Uhlmann had gone to ground, and we

couldn't get a smell of him. All we could discover from our man with the

Mechanics was that he had agreed to lead the murder squad that was to consist of

three top gunmen from the mob. It was to be a frontal attack on the apartment

where Boris lived. Nothing fancy. They were just going to blast their way

through the front door with sub-machine-guns, shoot him to bits, and get away.

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