62 Facts About Bond 26

1.

James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953.

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Bond 26 is then instructed to investigate Goldfinger's gold smuggling operation and he tails the dealer to Switzerland.

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Bond 26 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.

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4.

Bond 26's plane is hijacked by Goldfinger, but Bond 26 struggles with him and shoots out a window, creating an explosive decompression, killing Goldfinger.

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5.

Bond 26 investigates the hijacking of an Avro Vulcan loaded with two atomic bombs, which had been taken by SPECTRE.

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6.

Bond 26 follows a lead to the Bahamas, where he meets up with his CIA counterpart and friend Felix Leiter.

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7.

Bond 26 established that the mastermind behind the hijacking is SPECTRE's Number One, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in conjunction with Osato, a local industrialist.

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8.

Bond 26 follows the trail to Blofeld's island headquarters and spaceport, while the spacecraft, Bird One, attacks a Soviet capsule.

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9.

Tanaka's ninja troops attack the island, while Bond 26 manages to distract Blofeld and create a diversion which allows him to open the hatch, letting in the ninjas.

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10.

Bond 26 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.

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11.

Bond 26 soon establishes that Blofeld is brainwashing his patients to distribute bacteriological warfare agents throughout various parts of the world.

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12.

Bond 26 arranges a raid on the clinic using men from Draco's organisation.

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13.

Bond 26 marries Tracy, but she is murdered shortly afterwards by Irma Bunt, Blofeld's partner.

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14.

Bond 26 is tasked with investigating a major diamond smuggling ring which begins in Africa and runs through Holland and the UK to the United States.

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Bond 26 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.

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16.

James Bond 26 is sent to investigate the murder of three British MI6 agents, all of whom have been killed within 24 hours.

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17.

Bond 26 discovers that Kananga acts as Mr Big, a ruthless and cunning American gangster.

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18.

Bond 26 is captured by Kananga, but he escapes, killing Kananga and destroying the poppy crop.

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19.

The bullet signifies Bond 26 is a target of assassin Francisco Scaramanga and Bond 26 sets out unofficially to find him.

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20.

Bond 26 follows her to Hong Kong, where he witnesses the murder of Gibson and the theft of the Solex agitator.

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21.

Bond 26 is subsequently assigned to retrieve the agitator and assassinate Scaramanga.

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22.

Bond 26 meets with Hai Fat, a wealthy Thai entrepreneur suspected of arranging Gibson's murder, and is captured, but subsequently escapes.

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23.

Bond 26 is tasked with investigating the disappearance of British and Soviet ballistic missile submarines and the subsequent offer to sell a submarine tracking system.

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24.

Bond 26 escapes, freeing the submariners captured from the other submarines, and follows Stromberg to his headquarters, where he shoots the tycoon and a torpedo destroys the base.

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25.

Bond 26 meets the owner of the company, Hugo Drax and one of Drax's scientists, Dr Holly Goodhead.

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26.

Bond 26 follows the trail to Venice, where he establishes that Drax is manufacturing a nerve gas deadly to humans, but harmless to animals.

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27.

Bond 26 again meets Goodhead and finds out that she is a CIA agent.

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28.

Bond 26 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.

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29.

Bond 26 investigates the murder of 009, killed in East Berlin while dressed as a circus clown and carrying a fake Faberge egg.

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30.

An identical egg appears at auction and Bond 26 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.

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31.

Bond 26 meets Octopussy, a wealthy woman who leads the Octopus cult.

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32.

Bond 26 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.

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33.

Bond 26 investigates millionaire industrialist Max Zorin, who is trying to corner the world market in microchips.

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34.

Bond 26 establishes that Zorin was previously trained and financed by the KGB, but has now gone rogue.

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35.

Bond 26 subsequently finds out that Koskov is a friend of the arms dealer Brad Whitaker.

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36.

When Bond 26 is taken to Sanchez's main base and drugs refinery, he is recognised by one of Sanchez's men and captured.

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37.

Bond 26 escapes, destroying the refinery in the process, and pursues Sanchez, killing him.

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38.

Bond 26 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.

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39.

Bond 26 investigates the sinking of a British warship in Chinese waters, the theft of one of the ship's cruise missiles, and the shooting down of a Chinese fighter plane.

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40.

Bond 26 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.

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41.

MI6 believes that Renard is targeting Elektra King a second time and Bond 26 is assigned to protect her; the pair are subsequently attacked.

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42.

Elektra kidnaps M after she thinks Bond 26 had been killed and Bond 26 establishes that Elektra intends to create a nuclear explosion in a submarine in Istanbul to increase the value of her own oil pipeline.

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43.

Bond 26 frees M, kills Elektra and then disarms the bomb on the submarine, where he kills Renard.

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44.

Bond 26 investigates North Korean Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, who is illegally trading African conflict diamonds for weapons.

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45.

Moon is apparently killed and Bond 26 is captured and tortured for 14 months, after which he is exchanged for Zao, Moon's assistant.

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46.

Bond 26 discovers that Moon has undergone the gene therapy and has assumed the identity of Graves.

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47.

Bond 26 then exposes Moon's plan: to use the Icarus as a sun gun 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.

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48.

Bond 26 is instructed to beat Le Chiffre and is aided by a member of HM Treasury, Vesper Lynd.

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49.

Bond 26 learns that his poker winnings were never repaid to the Treasury, which Lynd was supposed to have done, and establishes that she was a double agent.

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50.

Bond 26 then finds Vesper Lynd's former lover and member of Quantum, Yusef Kabira.

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51.

Bond 26 saves M and attempts to lure Silva into a trap, and while he is successful in repelling Silva's assault, M is mortally wounded.

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52.

White asks Bond 26 to protect his daughter Madeleine Swann from Spectre and its leader, Franz Oberhauser, before committing suicide.

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53.

Jealous of the attention and care that his father gave to the young James Bond 26, Oberhauser faked his own death while at the same time murdering his own father.

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54.

Five years after Blofeld's imprisonment, Bond 26 is retired and living in Jamaica when Felix Leiter and his colleague Logan Ash enlist his help in searching for the missing MI6 scientist, Valdo Obruchev.

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55.

Bond 26 eventually accepts Leiter's request and follows his leads about the scientist's whereabouts to Cuba, where he infiltrates a Spectre gathering.

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56.

When Bond 26 brings Obruchev to Leiter, Ash betrays them and helps Obruchev escape, killing Leiter.

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57.

Swann decides to leave before Blofeld arrives, while Bond 26 has an altercation with Blofeld, who dies soon after.

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58.

Bond 26 tells Bond about Lyutsifer Safin, the man who controls Heracles.

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59.

Bond 26 establishes that the casino is located atop a giant underground headquarters run by the evil Dr Noah; he and Moneypenny travel there to investigate.

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60.

Bond 26 investigates the hijacking of two cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads which had been taken by SPECTRE.

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61.

Bond 26 meets Domino Petachi, the pilot's sister, and her lover, Maximillian Largo, SPECTRE's Number One, who reports directly to Blofeld.

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62.

Bond 26 becomes trapped and is taken, with Domino, to Palmyra, Largo's base of operations in North Africa, but Bond 26 subsequently escapes with Domino.

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