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For Your Eyes Only: Short story

“For Your Eyes Only” is one of the of For Your Eyes Only, collection of five James Bond short stories by Ian Fleming.

Plot summary: “For Your Eyes Only” begins with the murder of a Jamaican couple that had refused to sell their land to Herr von Hammerstein. When they refused they were killed by Major Gonzales, a Cuban hitman hired by von Hammerstein. This couple, the Havelocks, would turn out to be close friends of M, who served as the groom’s best man during their wedding in 1925. M subsequently gives Bond a voluntary assignment, “off-book” from sanctioned Secret Service duties, to sneak into the United States via Canada, track down Herr von Hammerstein, and prevent further harm to the Havelocks’s only daughter by any means necessary. When Bond arrives on the scene, however, he finds the Havelocks’ daughter, Judy, has arrived there first and intends to carry out her own mission of revenge. With only a bow and arrow, Judy kills von Hammerstein from 100 yards by shooting him in the neck at the exact moment he dives into a lake. A shootout later occurs with the rest of von Hammerstein’s men, all of whom, including Major Gonzales, are killed by Bond.

 
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