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* MisidentifiedWeapons: Bond tells Vivienne that the revolver he gives her is a "Smith & Wesson Police Positive". The Police Positive was made by Colt, not Smith & Wesson.
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* AttemptedRape: Sluggsy and Horror beat and then try to rape Vivienne when she tries to escape, only to be interrupted by Bond's arrival.
* EvilDuo: Sluggsy and Horror, a pair of thugs, arsonists and attempted rapists.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Sluggsy and Horror savagely beat Vivienne when she tries to escape. They would have done worse if Bond hadn't arrived.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Vivience Michel was named after Fleming's neighbour Viviene Stuart. Fleming's colleague at ''The Sunday Times'' Robert Harling gave his name to a printer in the story, while Frank Donaldson was named after Jack Donaldson, a friend of Fleming's wife.
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* AbortionFalloutDrama: The narrator and protagonist, Vivienne, was pressured into an abortion by a lover who seemed considerate and sensitive up until she announced she was pregnant. Then, he blamed her for the situation and insisted on paying for her trip to Switzerland (abortion was illegal in Great Britain at the time). She doesn't want the procedure but goes through with it because she doesn't want to be a single mother, either.
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While travelling through America to "escape" her past life, one Vivienne Michel takes a job of being receptionist for a motel named The Dreamy Pines, which soon becomes a stage for crime and romance. The book consists of three parts; "Me" gives Vivienne's backstory to the reader, "They" is about her work in the motel and the arrival of the main antagonists, and in "Him", James Bond himself becomes a player in the story.
The tenth ''Film/JamesBond'' [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe film]] shares the name of the novel [[InNameOnly but not its plot]], as Fleming refused to allow them to use anything else. However, its main villains Sluggsy Morant and Sol Horror (the first one completely bald, and the second with metal teeth) did sneak into the film in the guise of Sandor and Jaws, because Fleming had been dead over a decade at this point and couldn't really object.
The tenth ''Film/JamesBond'' [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe film]] shares the name of the novel [[InNameOnly but not its plot]], as Fleming refused to allow them to use anything else. However, its main villains Sluggsy Morant and Sol Horror (the first one completely bald, and the second with metal teeth) did sneak into the film in the guise of Sandor and Jaws, because Fleming had been dead over a decade at this point and couldn't really object.
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While travelling through America to "escape" her past life, one Vivienne Michel takes a job of being receptionist for a motel named The Dreamy Pines, which soon becomes a stage for crime and romance. The book consists of three parts; "Me" gives Vivienne's backstory to the reader, "They" "Them" is about her work in the motel and the arrival of the main antagonists, and in "Him", James Bond himself becomes a player in the story.
The tenth ''Film/JamesBond'' [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe film]] shares the name of the novel [[InNameOnly but not its plot]], as Fleming refused to allow them to use anything else. However, its main villains Sluggsy Morant and SolHorror "Horror" Horowitz (the first one completely bald, and the second with metal teeth) did sneak into the film in the guise of Sandor and Jaws, because Fleming had been dead over a decade at this point and couldn't really object.
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* EverybodySmokes: Bond asks if the thugs at work drink or smoke, and is the more unhappy about the situation to learn that they do not; "It's only pros that don't."
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* BiggerBad: While the two above-mentioned thugs are [[TheHeavy the heavies]] of the story, they are just working on the orders from their boss Mr. Sanguinetti.
* GreaterScopeVillain: While the thugs "Horror" and Sluggsy are [[TheHeavy the heavies]] of the story, they are just working on the orders from their boss, Mr. Sanguinetti.
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* RedRightHand: Horror has steel-capped teeth, and Sluggsy has [[BaldOfEvil no hair on his head]] due to conditon called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_totalis alopecia totalis]].
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* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Bond introduces himself this way to Sluggsy. He then says that it's "a pretty chump name".
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* ShowerOfLove: After seemingly getting rid of the two thugs, Vivienne and Bond go to one of the cabins that surived the fire, and share romantic time in the shower.
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* ShowerOfLove: After seemingly getting rid of the two thugs, Vivienne and Bond go to one of the cabins that surived survived the fire, and share romantic time in the shower.
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* SleepingDummy: Before going to sleep in his cabin, Bond arranges a dummy under his sheets since he (rightfully) suspects that the thugs will try kill him first.
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* QuietCryForHelp: When Bond the door asking for help with a flat tire, Vivienne tells him they're closed and to go away -- while making the hand gesture for "come here."
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* FearOfThunder: Vivienne evidently is. When a thunderstorm breaks outside, she freaks out, and is unable to think clearly. She then tries to turn on the mothel's vacancy-light, and gets an electric shock from it.
* GenreAdultery: The novel is the only ''Bond'' story from Fleming that is written from a woman's point of view.
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* ArmedAltruism: Bond gives Vivienne a pistol with which to defend herself. She later puts six rounds into Sluggsy and Sol's car.
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* BaldOfEvil: Sluggsy suffers from alopecia. He doesn't even have nostril hair, which annoys him considerable when he's forced to chase Vivienne in the rain and catches a cold.
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* FaceOfAThug: When Bond arrives, Vivienne automatically assumes he is a partner to the thugs menacing her because of his looks.
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* SecondHandStorytelling: One of the chapters relates to Bond's (failed, at this point) mission of tracking down Blofeld, from which he was coming back.
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While travelling through America to "escape" her past life, one Vivienne Michel takes a job of being receptionist for a motel named The Dreamy Pines, which soon becomes a stage for crime and romance. The book consists of three parts; "Me" gives Vivienne's backstory to the reader, "They" is about her work in the motel and the arrival of the main antagonists, and in "Him", James Bond himself becomes a player in the story.
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!!This novel has the examples of:
* BigBadDuumvirate: Sol "Horror" Horowitz and Sluggsy Morant.
* BiggerBad: While the two above-mentioned thugs are [[TheHeavy the heavies]] of the story, they are just working on the orders from their boss Mr. Sanguinetti.
* BrokenBird: Vivienne's love-life really roughed her up; she was just a summer fling to her first boyfriend and the second coldly dumped her when she got pregnant. The chapter about the latter guy is even named "Bird With a Wing Down".
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Vivienne tries to slash Sluggsy with a knife, but he and Horror grab a chair each and overpower her.
* ChekhovsGun: The vacancy-sign that Vivienne forgot on brings Bond into the motel after he got a flat tire.
* ContinuityNod: Bond tells Vivienne that he has just finished a job involving SPECTRE. Vivienne finds the name familiar, and Bond tells her that they were involved in the [[Literature/{{Thunderball}} Operation Thunderball]].
* DearJohnLetter: After Derek, Vivienne's first boyfriend, went to study in Oxford, he sent a letter to her to explain that things are over between them since he was "sort of semi-engaged" to a daughter of his parents neighbours.
* DescriptionInTheMirror: Once Vivienne wakes up after getting an electric shock, she wonders if all of her hair [[LockedIntoStrangeness has turned white]]. She then checks herself with a mirror, giving the reader a description of her face.
* DirtyOldMan: Mr. Phancey, one of the two managers of the motel, is this, since he is constantly making moves at Vivienne, and she has to hook a chair under a door handle to keep him out of her room at night.
* FearOfThunder: Vivienne evidently is. When a thunderstorm breaks outside, she freaks out, and is unable to think clearly. She then tries to turn on the mothel's vacancy-light, and gets an electric shock from it.
* GenreAdultery: The novel is the only ''Bond'' story from Fleming that is written from a woman's point of view.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: After having sex, Bond tells Vivienne that she was screaming. She doesn't remember it.
* InsuranceFraud: Sluggsy and Horror have come to the motel to burn it down, so that its owner Mr. Sanguinetti can claim the insurance money out of it.
* PillowPistol: Before everyone goes to sleep, Bond advises Vivienne to not sleep on her bed and gives a revolver to her, which she is supposed to keep under her pillow. Later she finds out that he sleeps with a gun under a pillow.
* PowerfulPick: Vivienne arms herself with an icepick after the two thugs enter the motel. She later tries to stab Horror with it, but only manages to graze him.
* RedRightHand: Horror has steel-capped teeth, and Sluggsy has [[BaldOfEvil no hair on his head]] due to conditon called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_totalis alopecia totalis]].
* ShowerOfLove: After seemingly getting rid of the two thugs, Vivienne and Bond go to one of the cabins that surived the fire, and share romantic time in the shower.
* SleepingDummy: Before going to sleep in his cabin, Bond arranges a dummy under his sheets since he (rightfully) suspects that the thugs will try kill him first.
* ViceCity: The two thugs frequently refer to Mr. Sanguinetti as a big shot in Troy. Once Bond hears it, he tells Vivienne that Troy is a "bad town - sort of a gangster suburb to Albany".
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