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* OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: One of the wackier ones in the series comes in the form of the opening author acknowledgement:
-->''I must thank the Senior Vice President and board of Euro Disney S.A. for their cooperation and allowing me to use the wonderful Euro Disney facility for the backdrop to the final scenes in this book. For the purposes of a work of fiction and for complete security, I have played a little with the security arrangements at Euro Disney. Only those who know will spot these alterations which are minor, for this tremendous complex remains one of the best Disney facilities in the world.''
-->''I must thank the Senior Vice President and board of Euro Disney S.A. for their cooperation and allowing me to use the wonderful Euro Disney facility for the backdrop to the final scenes in this book. For the purposes of a work of fiction and for complete security, I have played a little with the security arrangements at Euro Disney. Only those who know will spot these alterations which are minor, for this tremendous complex remains one of the best Disney facilities in the world.''
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[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one where]] Bond goes to [[Ride/DisneylandParis Euro Disneyland]]. The thirteenth ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel by John Gardner, published in 1993.
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Five seemingly unrelated assassinations take place across the globe, and Bond is tasked to look into them. Investigating together with Swiss agent Flicka von Grüsse, the clues lead to the castle of a retired actor David Dragonpol.
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* AssassinationAttempt: The serial killer has this as his gimmick. The climax of the book has him trying to assassinate [[spoiler:Princess Diana at Disneyland]].
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* ContinuityNod: When Bond hears that Flicka was told by M that she can't take part in the climax and was suggested to take some time off in the health clinic at Shrublands. Bond tells her that he [[Literature/{{Thunderball}} tried it once and it almost killed him]].
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* ContinuityNod: When Bond hears that from Flicka that she was told by M that she can't take part in the climax climax, and was he suggested to her to take some time off in the health clinic at Shrublands. Bond tells her that he [[Literature/{{Thunderball}} tried it once and it almost killed him]].
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:David Dragonpol isn't just a retired actor, he is a SerialKiller who in fits of insanity paln and execute high-profile assassinations]].
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* StoppedClock: The time of [[spoiler:Dragonpol]]'s escape from the authorities is determined by the broken wristwatch on one of the policemen set to guard him.
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* ArtisticLicense: Gardner acknowledges in the foreword that he took some liberties in depicting the security of Disneyland in the climax.
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The thirteenth ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel by John Gardner, published in 1993.
Five seemingly unrelated assassinations take place across the globe, and Bond is tasked to look into them.
!!This novel has examples of:
* AlliterativeName: Bestowed upon the [=MI5=] agent Carmel Chantry, whose boss is also named Gerald Grant. Later she brings up a retired actor called David Dragonpol into the thickening plot.
* ArtisticLicense: Gardner acknowledges in the foreword that he took some liberties in depicting the security of Disneyland in the climax.
* BadHabits: The first assassination in the opening chapter has a killer disguised as a nun shooting a General (who is visiting the pope in Vatican) in a scooter drive-by.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:David Dragonpol]].
* CallingCard: A rare hybrid rose is delivered into each funeral of the assassinated people, accompanied with the message "This is the way it must end. Goodbye."
* ContinuityNod: When Bond hears that Flicka was told by M that she can't take part in the climax and was suggested to take some time off in the health clinic at Shrublands. Bond tells her that he [[Literature/{{Thunderball}} tried it once and it almost killed him]].
* ExternalCombustion: The second person to be killed in the first chapter is a politician whose car was rigged with a bomb, which took eight startings of the vehicle before blowing up.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Dragonpol is killed with the bomb which he was going to use to kill Princess Diana and her children]].
* {{Malaproper}}: Swiss policeman Lempke, in a part of making himself [[ObfuscatingStupidity appear simpler than he really is]], constantly mangles English idioms.
* MasterOfDisguise: Dragonpol's skill in acting has also granted him with ability to make himself unrecognizable through disguises.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:David Dragonpol isn't just a retired actor, he is a SerialKiller who in fits of insanity paln and execute high-profile assassinations]].
* SerialKiller: David March, the brother of [=MI5=] agent Laura March (who was one of the five assassinated people), was a serial killer who back in the seventies (on the "[[HearingVoices orders]]" from the Egyptian Goddess Isis) killed four women [[OffWithHisHead by decapitation]] and kept their heads as souvenirs.
* ShowSomeLeg: Flicka distracts a henchman that has her and Bond on gunpoint by moving in such fashion which makes her skirt get caught in the railing next to them, uplifting it. As the guy is stunned by the sudden sight before him, Bond tackles him.
* SwordCane: The assassin who is responsible for the deaths around the globe carries a cane that has a gun built into it.
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:David Dragonpol has an identical brother Daniel, whom he switches places when his insanity takes hold on him]].
* TheVonTropeFamily: Flicka von Grüsse, Bond's Swiss Intelligence ally in the investigation of the death of Laura March.
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Five seemingly unrelated assassinations take place across the globe, and Bond is tasked to look into them.
!!This novel has examples of:
* AlliterativeName: Bestowed upon the [=MI5=] agent Carmel Chantry, whose boss is also named Gerald Grant. Later she brings up a retired actor called David Dragonpol into the thickening plot.
* ArtisticLicense: Gardner acknowledges in the foreword that he took some liberties in depicting the security of Disneyland in the climax.
* BadHabits: The first assassination in the opening chapter has a killer disguised as a nun shooting a General (who is visiting the pope in Vatican) in a scooter drive-by.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:David Dragonpol]].
* CallingCard: A rare hybrid rose is delivered into each funeral of the assassinated people, accompanied with the message "This is the way it must end. Goodbye."
* ContinuityNod: When Bond hears that Flicka was told by M that she can't take part in the climax and was suggested to take some time off in the health clinic at Shrublands. Bond tells her that he [[Literature/{{Thunderball}} tried it once and it almost killed him]].
* ExternalCombustion: The second person to be killed in the first chapter is a politician whose car was rigged with a bomb, which took eight startings of the vehicle before blowing up.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Dragonpol is killed with the bomb which he was going to use to kill Princess Diana and her children]].
* {{Malaproper}}: Swiss policeman Lempke, in a part of making himself [[ObfuscatingStupidity appear simpler than he really is]], constantly mangles English idioms.
* MasterOfDisguise: Dragonpol's skill in acting has also granted him with ability to make himself unrecognizable through disguises.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:David Dragonpol isn't just a retired actor, he is a SerialKiller who in fits of insanity paln and execute high-profile assassinations]].
* SerialKiller: David March, the brother of [=MI5=] agent Laura March (who was one of the five assassinated people), was a serial killer who back in the seventies (on the "[[HearingVoices orders]]" from the Egyptian Goddess Isis) killed four women [[OffWithHisHead by decapitation]] and kept their heads as souvenirs.
* ShowSomeLeg: Flicka distracts a henchman that has her and Bond on gunpoint by moving in such fashion which makes her skirt get caught in the railing next to them, uplifting it. As the guy is stunned by the sudden sight before him, Bond tackles him.
* SwordCane: The assassin who is responsible for the deaths around the globe carries a cane that has a gun built into it.
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:David Dragonpol has an identical brother Daniel, whom he switches places when his insanity takes hold on him]].
* TheVonTropeFamily: Flicka von Grüsse, Bond's Swiss Intelligence ally in the investigation of the death of Laura March.
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