First published in TV Guide (American edition), November 13-19, 1999, the Richard Benson short story Live at Five In publication order, this follows the novelisation of The World is Not Enough and precedes Doubleshot.

Published the week The World Is Not Enough arrived in film theatres in America, Live at Five is the shortest of all James Bond stories, even shorter than Fleming’s previous record-holder 007 in New York. Running only a couple of thousand words, if that, it is a trifle in which Bond, en route to a date with a female TV news reporter, recalls how he once helped a Russian figure skating champion defect in full view of TV cameras. The reporter, Janet Davies, becomes the second real person to be a Bond girl, seen daily on Chicago’s local ABC station Channel 7 WLS.

Due to the fact that this issue of TV Guide was only available in the United States for a short period of time, and the story has, to date, never been reprinted elsewhere, Live at Five is expected to continue to be the hardest-to-find Bond story for some time to come. (By comparison, the two issues of Playboy listed above are readily available through the collector’s market and in used book stores, and the magazine has distribution in Britain, although that’s not the same as the stories being published in that country. There is a collectors’ market for back issues of TV Guide, and the Bond issue is considered particularly collectable, but this market rarely extends beyond the US.)