I had also forgotten how shockingly unintelligent he was when it came to reading the room, because Vesper is quite OBVIOUSLY hiding something from him.īut apparently, he thinks it's normal for women to make cryptic comments and cry after sex, so he never managed to put two and two together and come up with a double agent. He eventually passes out, wakes up, gets thwacked on his nads some more, and right before the bad guy pulls the trigger, another bad guy shows up and kills the testicle-smasher.īad guy #2 leaves James alive presumably because he's going to need to show up in the next book and fumble fuck around again. This is just a run-of-the-mill agent who got his balls thumped by the psycho he beat at baccarat. This is NOT the suave James Bond we know and love. No cool spy stuff, no outrageous sexytimes, just a dull as shit card game.Īnd the second half was James getting his ass thoroughly beaten, only escaping death by sheer dumb luck. He's definitely an ass, so this isn't a book you should hand to your son with an emulate this guy wink.īut what I had forgotten was that the first half of this (rather short) book was mostly just a card game. I remembered being aware that he wasn't the most forward-thinking chap when it came to women after I first read this book, and the passing of 13 years hasn't made him look any better.