I A N - F L E M I N G ' S
J - A - M - E - S -- B - O - N - D
007
in
VENGEANCE
JAMES BOND IS BACK IN ACTION
AND BETTER THAN EVER
PRE-TITLE SEQUENCE SCENE COMING JUNE 25th
June 17th, 1946
They’d been searching for James Bond now for six months. Their intelligence was wrong once again as they soon found that Bond wasn’t in Royale-Les-Eaux.
Sean McDonough stood outside the casino as his colleague, Mathew Settle, searched the ground floor. McDonough casually lit a cigarette and inhaled the smoke deep into his dark lungs. This man was a top-class agent, or so his superiors had told him. Settle was a new recruit and was looking for an opening case that would increase his chances of quick promotion. The boy was fresh out of college and had a brilliant mind that should have been used for New York’s enthusiastic DA that was currently taking down the Mob. McDonough nearly felt sorry for him, wasn’t even old enough to buy a beer, and was a good kid.
McDonough took one last drag on his cigarette before flicking it away. Settle came out of the casino with a tired and mad look on his face.
The boy ran his fingers through his hair. That reminded Sean of Bastogne when he was in the service. He was 1st Sergeant of F Company, 3d Battalion. Throwing down your helmet and running your fingers in you hair meant you were at the breaking point. But this kid was just plain upset.
“Calm down. Its looks like we got bad intelligence on him.” Sean spoke as he glanced back at Settle.
“We’ve been ____ing looking for this prick for six goddamn months.”
McDonough glanced at the streetlights for a brief moment, thinking back to his Holland jump. Market Garden, he thought. Bad Intelligence. He remembered the briefing on the operation, “If we secure a series of bridges, that will allow a rapid advance of armored forces to push forward into Germany…we hope to end the war by Christmas (1944)…”McDonough broke out of his flashback and began to walk towards his car. Settle followed, and seemed to be pouting and whining all the way back to the now non-occupied French HQ for the organization. The two had an argument about the leader of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, like he was in the service, or if he was always the CO rather than once being an agent. There were many questions to be asked about Blofeld. But one thing that was certain, he cannot be redeemed.