Wednesday, June 1, 2022

summary book casino royale

my summary of great novel casino royale, the first "james bond" book
adding and FIXING bad summaries
in the 1950's, ["after 1950"] agent bond was in a casino in the town royale on the french coast. he had white skin, blue-gray eyes and dark hair. When he was a child both parents died [skyfall 2012] but now he was very lucky and his intuition helped win more than half of his gambles. 
his mission was to spy on the enemy agent called the "number" le chiffer. the royal government sent bond to use his gambling skills "to bankrupt" the enemy agent in a gambling card game called baccarat. the loss of money will weaken the enemy.
bond met agentess lynd so they dined together. after bond left, agents tried to bomb bond. luckily they activated the wrong bomb too early so bond survived as he walked by a tree. at the gambling table luck starts to favor bond so not only was bond winning but c' was more often losing... until luck reversed and bond lost a big gamble to c'. bond tried again with his last money but lost. he faced failure and worse had just provided money to the enemy for their "fear causing" missions of harm and death.
as he started to smoke a cigarette he got an envelope from the c.i.a. who also wanted to bankrupt this bad guy.
he asked for cards... a gun poked his back how will he survive? anyway he does and finally wins the huge gamble. mission accomplished? bond knows when the evil lose money they will hurt the winner! he returned the money to the CIA agent and then hid the check for the money.
he went to dine with agent lynd. she got a message to leave the table... and does not return. should bond report her abduction to the police? no time! he was trained in tactics so he tried to rescue [X not to "save life" of] agent lady Lynd... but a rug of spikes blew his car off the road. he crashed and got captured.
Bond [not "dodge nor fight off" kuz tied in metal wire called flex. i must fix bad summary] suffered "brutal torture" but refused to reveal where he hid the check. probably he regretted trying to rescue lynd alone. LESSON!
bond was finally saved... by a russian agent who had hunted chiffre. using a gun with silencer the agent had already shot c's two skilled guards and interrupted the torture. he shot c' for betraying "their russia". he said "i lack orders to kill you" so bond survived but the russian agent added pain by cutting a russian character in bond's hand. "s" for spy from bonds angle it looked like english m. bond lay in a pool of his own blood that mixed with the expanding blood of chiffre. he recovered in a hospital. the end? nope! lynd visited him and was friendly during the recovery. after he was healthy enuf to leave hospital he went with lynd to tour the coast.
her kindness ends as she changes to distant and deception. agonizing days pass... until lynd decided to lay with bond. they enjoy a passionate loving... "sweet love". ah... the happy ending. and despite the damage of torture "all my parts worked" but not the end. afterward she sent bond from her room to his own room. in the morning bond awoke to visit her and finds her corpse and an empty bottle of sleeping pills. her glass of water had dried whitish powder at the bottom. they found the note. she had been a russian double agent blackmaild by her love to a polish guy. she had resisted and tried to serve both sides until she decided to end her life. free from her job she had enjoyed "sweet love" with bond and then ended her torment by suicide.
bond understood that he had tried to save... a double agent! the horror. from now he will focus on weakening "smersh" [not only a fictional organization but referencing a historical russian agency mentioned in ww2 history] bond phoned the office ready for the next mission! the end. note: in some films the enemy changed from smersh to "spectre" instead of russian smersh.

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