“For Your Eyes Only” is a tale of revenge, and one that could easily stretch itself out to full length (to help that along, producers lifted the crime saga and deception from “Risico” to flesh the story out). This time, the film adaptation did take its namesake story’s premise, and it’s easy to see why. That neuters the suspense a bit, even though the story still has heft to it. Still, it’s a little curious that the primary tension in the story isn’t so much centered on the facedown with the assassins as it is on Bond getting the better of SHAPE on behalf of MI6. Fittingly then, the film A View to a Kill only took a portion of the title as inspiration, with absolutely no similarities in plot.
“From A View to a Kill” would peter out if stretched to full novel length, but it packs a neat punch as a short. Right away, he sets a tone that justifies short adventures for his intrepid creation, 007. And naturally again, even faced with what seems to be a dead end James find a lead that will take him right into the lair of three assassins.įleming packs a surprising amount of meat into a story merely thirty pages long. Still, since the investigation appears to be a dead end, he is allowed to have a look. Naturally, when 007 shows up on scene he is met with polite resistance. If an agent from MI6 can show up the officers from SHAPE by cracking the case and eliminating the threat, it will deal a crucial blow against them and prove MI6’s worth.
SHAPE and MI6 have been having a sort of Cold War over whose purpose is more relevant to the world at large. When a dispatcher for SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) is killed during a run on his motorcycle, M dispatches James Bond (who happened to be nearby in Paris) to assist the investigation. Like all short story collections the quality varies from story to story, so let’s take a look at this collection a bit more closely, shall we? “From a View to a Kill” Elements of the stories were adapted for the film franchise, but in Frankenstein-like patches that were cobbled together. Unlike the previous James Bond books by Ian Fleming, For Your Eyes Only is a collection of five short stories, not a single adventure (two of the stories, “Quantum of Solace” and “The Hildebrand Rarity” had been previously published in Cosmopolitan and Playboy, respectively). “Never send a man where you can send a bullet.”
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