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3	The seventh ''Literature/YoungBond'' novel, and the second by Steve Cole, released in 2016.
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5	James and his friend Hugo Grande have come to UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}} to stay with old family friend Gerald Hardiman until his Aunt Charmian returns from her Mexican anthropological expedition. But they've barely arrived before Hardiman is kidnapped, and James and Hugo find themselves on his trail from Havana and across the Caribbean to face down a MadScientist with a pharmaceutical fortune and genocidal ambitions.
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7	!Tropes include:
8	* ActionGirl: Jagua, probably the greatest example in the ''Young Bond'' series.
9	* ArchnemesisDad: Scolopendra for Jagua. She even says that Audacto Solares, her father, [[ThatManIsDead was killed by Scolopendra years ago.]]
10	* BigBad: Audacto Solares, ''alias'' "Scolopendra", after the species of giant centipede he discovered, ''Scolopendra Deltadromeus''.
11	* BigCreepyCrawlies: Scolopendra named himself after a giant centipede he discovered. He also lets loose a swarm of [[BodyHorror botflies]] against James and Hugo at one point. And unconnected to all that, James has a run-in with a tarantula.
12	* CallForward: This marks the first time Bond is introduced to diving.
13	* CoDragons: Ramón and El Puño.
14	* DeadpanSnarker: Hugo, as usual. He admits it's a coping mechanism he developed long ago due to his height.
15	* EvilPlan: Using [[spoiler: money infected with a deadly virus]] to hold whole countries to ransom. And Britain is to be the test case.
16	* ForScience: Scolopendra is quite willing to infect innocent people with deadly diseases to test his pathogens.
17	* FreudianExcuse: Scolopendra is a Cuban of mixed descent, and also a genius. So he has a ''serious'' chip on his shoulder about having spent his youth in menial labour and as a porter for less gifted scientists, before he made his name and fortune.
18	* KarmaHoudini: La Velada sees the whole scheme going up in (literal) smoke, and gets the hell out of there.
19	* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Scolopendra's daughter Jagua Solares, named after the jaguar goddess.
20	* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: James stumbles upon Ramón and El Puño kidnapping Maritsa and helps out, which brings him into contact with Jagua and kicks off the whole plot.
21	* MythologyGag: A particularly daring one. James retrieves Jagua's notes from inside the manuscript of an older ornithologist friend of hers. The manuscript (which wouldn't be published for two more years) is ''A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies'', and the (unnamed) ornithologist is the real James Bond!
22	* RedRightHand: Ramón has an ugly scar running from under his nose to his chin, while his [[CoDragons co-Dragon]] El Puño ("The Fist") lost a hand and had it replaced with a block of granite carved into a fist.
23	* TheUnreveal: What's behind La Velada's veil?
24	* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind The Man]]: La Velada is more responsible for Scolopendra's success than he thinks, and despite what she says, it seems clear she's really [[spoiler: been working for the NKVD all along.]]

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