It is then that he learns that M’s butler, Chief Petty Officer Hammond, and his wife had been murdered. Feeling a jab in his arm he eventually makes a break for it and hide in the grounds of M’s estate before passing out.Īwaking to discover his boss and the assailants gone, Bond informs Tanner. Bond is ambushed after finding M upstairs drugged and in a weakened state, and needs to escape before being drugged himself. Even though Bond sensed that he was being followed his senses were not as sharp as they would have been in the field.īut that is the calm before the storm and it is suddenly over when Bond arrives at M’s home. This is also a lesson to the reader as well, that getting into a routine means that you are not aware of what is going on around you, especially regarding your safety. It is re-enforced further when Bond expresses this to Tanner during a game of golf, whilst being watched from a distance by a henchman. You can detect that Bond is starting to fall into the latter of the two. It is interesting as many of us in our everyday lives fall into repetitive habits some like this and others get easily bored and restless. As I delved into the first chapter of the first 007 continuation novel Kingsley Amis (writing as Robert Markham) begins by having Bond reflect on how he is has no major assignments and that his life has become so routine.
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