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* TextualCelebrityResemblance: Rhonda's image and likeness is similar to Creator/MarilynMonroe.
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* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Judy, contrary to Bond's [[StayInTheKitchen usual prejudices]], has no problem [[spoiler:killing the head gangster with her crossbow. It's right ''after'' that she breaks down]].
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* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Judy, contrary to Bond's [[StayInTheKitchen usual prejudices]], has no problem [[spoiler:killing the head gangster with her crossbow.bow. It's right ''after'' that she breaks down]].
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* EveryoneIsASuspect: Bond can't decide between two very likely suspects: Liz Krest (who may have finally had enough of her husband's verbal/physical abuse) or Fidele Barbey (whose family Krest had insulted). He tries to draw them out, but neither one gives away any hints of being guilty.
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* EveryoneIsASuspect: Bond can't decide between two very likely suspects: Liz Krest (who may have finally had enough of her husband's verbal/physical abuse) or Fidele Barbey (whose family Krest had insulted). He tries to draw them out, but neither one gives away any hints of being guilty. All three of them seem to make an unstated agreement to cover up Krest's murder because he was simply such a horrible person.
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* YourCheatingHeart: After growing bored with her meek husband, Rhoda started a scandalous relationship with the island's most sought-after bachelors.
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The eighth ''Literature/JamesBond'' book by Creator/IanFleming, and the first one to be a collection of short stories. Published First published in 1960.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Judy, contrary to Bond's [[StayInTheKitchen usual prejudices]], has no problem [[spoiler:killing the head gangster with her crossbow. It's right ''after'' that she breaks down]].
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* {{Cuckold}}: After growing bored with her meek husband, Rhoda started a scandalous relationship with the island's most sought after bachelor.
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* YourCheatingHeart: After growing bored with her meek husband, Rhoda started a scandalous relationship with the island's most sought-after bachelors.
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** Barbey comments that he has enough influence in the Seychelles to make sure that neither Bond nor Liz will be put to very much trouble in an inquest.
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* AssholeVictim: There is nothing nice about Milton Krest, as he looks down on non-American nationalities, treats his wife like dirt and his expeditions for the Smithsonian are just a ploy to avoid paying taxes.
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* AssholeVictim: There is nothing nice about Milton Krest, as he looks down on non-American nationalities, treats his wife like dirt dirt, and uses his expeditions for the Smithsonian are just as a ploy to avoid paying taxes. tax dodge.
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* EveryoneIsASuspect: Bond can't decide between two very likely suspects: Liz Krest (who may have finally had enough of her husband's verbal/physical abuse) or Fidele Barbey (whose family Krest had insulted).
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* EveryoneIsASuspect: Bond can't decide between two very likely suspects: Liz Krest (who may have finally had enough of her husband's verbal/physical abuse) or Fidele Barbey (whose family Krest had insulted). He tries to draw them out, but neither one gives away any hints of being guilty.
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* EveryoneIsASuspect: Bond can't decide between two very likely suspects: Liz Krest (who may have finally had enough of her husband's verbal/physical abuse) or Fidele Barbey (whose family Krest had insulted).
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* ItsPersonal: Although it's ostensibly to deter other criminals from killing British citizens, M knows it's really about revenge.
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* ItsPersonal: Although it's ostensibly to deter other criminals from killing British citizens, M knows it's really about revenge. Judy Havelock also turns up to [[YouKilledMyFather avenge her parents]].
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* SexyStewardess: Struggling to come up with something say at the party, Bond blurts out that he was ever going to marry someone, it'd be stewardess.
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* SexyStewardess: Struggling to come up with something say at the party, Bond blurts out that if he was ever going to marry someone, it'd be a stewardess.
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* DolledUpInstallment: The story just started with the tale of the marriage, but Fleming put a framing device of Bond being told the story at a cocktail party so he could put it in this collection.
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The second and the fourth story were turned into the twelth ''Film/JamesBond'' [[Film/ForYourEyesOnly film]]. Only [[InNameOnly the names]] of the first and the third story made their way to the films [[Film/AViewToAKill fourteen]] and [[Film/QuantumOfSolace twenty-two]], and elements of the last one were implemented to the [[Film/LicenceToKill sixteenth]].
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The second and the fourth story were turned into the twelth twelfth ''Film/JamesBond'' [[Film/ForYourEyesOnly film]]. Only [[InNameOnly the names]] of the first and the third story made their way to the films [[Film/AViewToAKill fourteen]] and [[Film/QuantumOfSolace twenty-two]], and elements of the last one were implemented to the [[Film/LicenceToKill sixteenth]].
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# "From a View to a Kill": Bond is tasked to aid in an investigation involving murder of a courier and the theft of the important papers he was carrying.
# "For Your Eyes Only": When close friends of M are murdered by gangsters, he sends Bond after them.
# "For Your Eyes Only": When close friends of M are murdered by gangsters, he sends Bond after them.
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# "From a View to a Kill": Bond is tasked sent to France to aid in an investigation involving murder of a courier and the theft of the important papers he was carrying.
# "For Your Eyes Only": When close friends of M are murdered by Cuban gangsters, he sends Bond after them.
# "For Your Eyes Only": When close friends of M are murdered by Cuban gangsters, he sends Bond after them.
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* GayParee: While most of the action takes place in the French countryside, a good chunk of the actual text is about Bond lounging around downtown Paris, with vast amounts of SceneryPorn and a lot snobbish griping about [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks how the town just hasn't been the same since the War]].
* InterserviceRivalry: A minor but running theme of the story is how MI-6 constantly chafes against the micromanagement of the NATO High Command in France.
* TreeCover: How the enemy spies have hidden themselves in NATO territory for so long - with a fake shrub leading to an underground chamber, complete with periscope.
* InterserviceRivalry: A minor but running theme of the story is how MI-6 constantly chafes against the micromanagement of the NATO High Command in France.
* TreeCover: How the enemy spies have hidden themselves in NATO territory for so long - with a fake shrub leading to an underground chamber, complete with periscope.
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* WomanDrivers: An InvokedTrope with a female agent driving a battered car to deter others from crowding her on the road.
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* WomanDrivers: WomenDrivers: An InvokedTrope with a female agent driving a battered car to deter others from crowding her on the road.
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* WomanDrivers: An InvokedTrope with a female agent driving a battered car to deter others from crowding her on the road.
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* FunetikAksent: The story's title is actually "Risk", rendered phonetically in Kristatos' accent.
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* InTheStyleOf Creator/WSomersetMaugham. It's quite easy to imagine this story starring Maugham's recurring spy character Ashenden as easily as Bond.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: Before M briefs Bond on his mission, he laments about responsibilities he has to hold in his position, as he is unsure about sending one of his men to enact personal revenge on his behalf. Bond takes the responsibility off his shoulders by endorsing his plan.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: Before M briefs Bond on his mission, he laments about responsibilities he has to hold in his position, as he is unsure about sending one of his men to enact personal revenge on his behalf. [[ShootTheDog Bond takes the responsibility off his shoulders shoulders]] by endorsing his plan.
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* SexForServices: Judy Havelock implies she discovered the location of von Hammerstein by sleeping with some criminals who'd done business with him.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: Before M briefs Bond on his mission, he laments about responsibilities he has to hold in his position, as he is unsure about sending one of his men to enact personal revenge on his behalf. Bond takes the responsibility off his shoulders by endorsing his plan.
* ItsPersonal: Although it's ostensibly to deter other criminals from killing British citizens, M knows it's really about revenge.
* ItsPersonal: Although it's ostensibly to deter other criminals from killing British citizens, M knows it's really about revenge.
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* DistressedDude: Bond's life is saved by the GirlOfTheWeek!
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* KickTheDog: Krest poisons an entire river's worth of animals to kill one fish.
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The eighth ''Literature/JamesBond'' book by Creator/IanFleming, and the first one to be a collection of short stories. published Published in 1960.
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# "Quantum of Solace": At the party of a Jamaican governor, Bond is told a story of a failed marriage.
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# "Quantum of Solace": At the party of a Jamaican governor, Bond is [[SecondHandStorytelling told a story story]] of a failed marriage.
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* ThoseWackyNazis: von Hammerstein, now a landbuyer with strongarm tactics, was a Nazi officer in the second World War.
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* ThoseWackyNazis: [[TheVonTropeFamily von Hammerstein, Hammerstein]], now a landbuyer with strongarm tactics, was a Nazi officer in the second World War.
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* TitleDrop: The title appears written on a folder handed to Bond.
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* DeadfootLeadfoot: Bond shoots [[spoiler:Kristatos]] as he tries to drive away in the climactic fight, and the car disappears into the night carrying its dead owner.
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* DeadfootLeadfoot: DeadFootLeadfoot: Bond shoots [[spoiler:Kristatos]] [[spoiler:shoots Kristatos]] as he tries to drive away he's making his getaway after his operation is destroyed... with the Lancia's wheels in the climactic fight, road ruts guiding it and his dead foot on the gas pedal, the car disappears hurtles out of sight into the night carrying its dead owner.distance.
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# "From a View to a Kill": Bond is tasked to aid in an investigation involving murder of a courier and the theft of the important papers he was carrying.
# "For Your Eyes Only": When close friends of M are murdered by gangsters, he sends Bond after them.
# "Quantum of Solace": At the party of a Jamaican governor, Bond is told a story of a failed marriage.
# "Risico": After he is sent to mission in Italy to sabotage the local drugtrade, Bond is caught between two feuding crimebosses.
# "The Hildebrand Rarity": After investigating possible Communist activity in Seychelles, Bond uses his remaining free time to join an expedition to find a specimen of the rare eponymous fish.
The second and the fourth story were turned into the twelth ''Film/JamesBond'' [[Film/ForYourEyesOnly film]]. Only [[InNameOnly the names]] of the first and the third story made their way to the films [[Film/AViewToAKill fourteen]] and [[Film/QuantumOfSolace twenty-two]], and elements of the last one were implemented to the [[Film/LicenceToKill sixteenth]].
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!!"From a View to a Kill"
* BeneathNotice: M thinks that perhaps the enemy has disguised himself as a gardener or garbage man or such. Someone hidden in plain sight.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: The (possible) GRU agents' operation hinges on one of them tricking other couriers by dressing as them. Bond uses this tactic against the spies by dressing as the fake-courier and luring them out of their hideout.
!!"For Your Eyes Only"
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Before M briefs Bond on his mission, he laments about responsibilities he has to hold in his position, as he is unsure about sending one of his men to enact personal revenge on his behalf.
* SueDonym: Bond, under the name 'Mr. James', meets a contact in Canada who introduces himself as 'Colonel Johns'.
* ThoseWackyNazis: von Hammerstein, now a landbuyer with strongarm tactics, was a Nazi officer in the second World War.
!!"Quantum of Solace"
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The wife of the Canadian millionaire Bond met briefly at the start of the story is revealed to be the unfaithful wife Rhoda at the end.]]
* {{Cuckold}}: After growing bored with her meek husband, Rhoda started a scandalous relationship with the island's most sought after bachelor.
* DolledUpInstallment: The story just started with the tale of the marriage, but Fleming put a framing device of Bond being told the story at a cocktail party so he could put it in this collection.
* SexyStewardess: Struggling to come up with something say at the party, Bond blurts out that he was ever going to marry someone, it'd be stewardess.
!!"Risico"
* DeadfootLeadfoot: Bond shoots [[spoiler:Kristatos]] as he tries to drive away in the climactic fight, and the car disappears into the night carrying its dead owner.
* DirtyCommunists: Bond learns that the drug operation he just destroyed was a Soviet ploy against Great Britain.
* GenericEthnicCrimeGang: Kristatos' (Albanian) and Colombo's (Greek) gangs.
* HarpoonGun: Bond is greeted by a dozen men carrying harpoon guns after his meeting with Lisl.
!!"The Hildebrand Rarity"
* AssholeVictim: There is nothing nice about Milton Krest, as he looks down on non-American nationalities, treats his wife like dirt and his expeditions for the Smithsonian are just a ploy to avoid paying taxes.
* CompensatingForSomething: Bond suspects that Krest's overly macho output is a result of him compensating for his impotence.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: After hearing his death rattle, Bond finds Krest with the Hildebrand Rarity rammed into his throat.
* MadLibThrillerTitle: The short story marks the only example in Fleming's works of the trope.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Krest brags how he is able to bribe his way to obtain the rare specimens for the Smithsonian if he needs to.
* WhipItGood: Krest punishes his wife for perceived slights [[StayInTheKitchen on her place in his household]] by whipping her with a stingray tail.
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