"For Your Eyes" has another captivating woman for Bond to interact with, while "Hildebrand Rarity" is surprisingly interesting and complicated and violent. In the former, M sends Bond on a personal mission of vengeance, while in the latter, a vacationing Bond discovers an abusive marriage, a problem beyond the powers of Britain's top spy to do anything about. "For Your Eyes Only" and "The Hildebrand Rarity" are a little more personal than normal. On the other hand, "Risico" didn't seem to offer anything new. I enjoyed the former, imbued as it is with Fleming's usual attention to detail, and also a captivating female character that I wish we saw more of. "From a View to a Kill" and "Risico" are the more typical Bond tales here the first has Bond defeating a Soviet plot to intercept NATO intelligence despatches, while "Risico" sends Bond undercover to defeat a drug-smuggling operation. There are five in total, varying from typical Bond spycraft in short story form to more literary, domestic tales. This isn't the eighth James Bond novel, but rather the first James Bond short story collection.
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