Line #11 Literature/RedNemesis


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3	The ninth and [[SeriesFinale last]] ''Young Bond'' novel, and the fourth by Steve Cole.
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5	Young James Bond is leaving Fettes for the summer, and his Aunt Charmian has something interesting to show him - his father's backpack, discovered in a crevasse in the Aiguilles Rouges. Inside is a model of St Basil's for James, a note saying "Your uncle Max needs to see this," and a cryptic postcard that was never sent to Max Bond. Before he knows it, James is taken to Moscow with SIS agent [[FriendOnTheForce Adam Elmhirst]] and enmeshed in a struggle to prove Andrew and Max Bond innocent of treason against their country, and to stop a Soviet plot against London.
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7	!!Tropes in this final book include:
8	* BeneathSuspicion: The mastermind behind the entire operation, Soviet spymistress La Velada, the veiled woman whose face is never seen [[spoiler: turns out to have [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced]] the ballet teacher at the Mechta academy. Bond had talked to her earlier in the book and not even known.]]
9	* BigBad: La Velada makes her return, as the main villain this time.
10	* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Adam Elmhirst, [[FriendOnTheForce friendly SIS agent]] ]] just seemed too good to be true, didn't it?
11	* CallForward: The gun Andrew Bond left with his notes in Moscow is a Beretta 418 in a chamois leather holster - the same gun James will use until he replaces it with the Walther in ''Literature/DrNo''.
12	* CharacterDevelopment: Bond vows to kill [[spoiler: Elmhirst, the man who killed his parents.]] And he does, for the first time in cold blood.
13	* ContinuityNod: The explosives are sourced from [[Literature/StrikeLightning Blade-Rise Industries]]. And Colonel Irina Sedova, ''aka'' [[IronicNickname "Babushka"]] signed off on the operation, although she doesn't put in an appearance. Bond also reminisces about the girls he's known, namechecking each GirlOfTheWeek.
14	* DirtyCommunists: The villains this time around.
15	* TheDragon: At first the Russian agent Karachan. [[spoiler: Then later he and Adam Elmhirst are revealed to be CoDragons]]. Mimic is more like a junior dragon, verging on TeamPet, given how they treat him.
16	* EvilPlan: La Velada's plan has been running for a few years now: [[spoiler: they've dug tunnels under London using gulag labour imported by submarine, then filled the tunnels with high explosive.]] The eventual aim is to set off a Thames flood worse than the great flood of 1928, [[spoiler: and assassinate the King at the same time to replace him with Mimic, who will invite the Soviet Union for assistance.]]
17	* GirlOfTheWeek: Anya Kalashnikova, the daughter of a Russian friend of Andrew Bond's.
18	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Adam Elmhirst]] is impaled on a radio mast after Bond shoots him.
19	* KickTheDog: After Bond is captured by the bad guys, they repeatedly [[spoiler:have Mimic saying his parents' last words to him]], just for laughs.
20	* KillAndReplace: Part of the EvilPlan. [[spoiler: Elmhirst will pull a BodyguardBetrayal, then Mimic will play the King for a while on the radio and invite USSR aid.]]
21	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: The deaths of Andrew and Monique Bond weren't an accident. Elmhirst and Mimic murdered them and made it look like a climbing accident.]]
22	* MythologyGag: The Mechta academy is at 71 Millbank... which [[HistoricalInJoke puts it directly across the river from the modern SIS headquarters at Vauxhall Cross]]. "Hidden in plain sight" indeed.
23	* RedRightHand: Subverted. [[spoiler:What's behind La Velada's veil? Absolutely nothing unusual. She's completely normal-looking.]]
24	* VoiceChangeling: Mimic, a Brazilian street kid with a talent for vocal impersonation, La Velada took him in and treats him more like a beloved pet than a son.

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