You Only Live Twice

THE TIMES Obituary: Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVRM writes: As readers will have learned from recent issues, a senior officer of the MoD, Commander James Bond, is missing, believed killed, while on an official mission to Japan.It grieves me to have to report that hopes of his survival must now be abandoned …Bond, a shattered man after the death of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has gone to pieces as an agent, endangering himself and his fellow operatives. M, unwilling to accept the loss of one of his best men, sends 007 to Japan for one last, near-impossible mission. But Japan proves to be Bond’s downfall, leading him to a mysterious residence known as the ‘Castle of Death’, where he encounters an old enemy revitalized. All the omens suggest that this is the end for the British agent, and, for once, even Bond himself seems unable to disagree …