Living Daylights,the short story,is fairly forgettable on paper but was included in the film to form a few scenes. Serve on hot buttered toast in individual copper dishes (for appearance only) with pink champagne (Taittinger) and low music.

Originally titled "Reflections in a Carey Cadillac", it was however first published under the name "Agent 007 in New York" in the New York Herald Tribune in October 1963. He is disinterested in this almost mundane job that he has been assigned and he cannot wait to get done with it. And thanks to authors such as Kingsley Amis, John Gardner, Benson himself, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd, the literary exploits of Bond continue to this day.Octopussy" provided the title of the film and the background for the character Octopussy, the daughter of a character Bond had allowed to commit suicide, rather than face the shame of arrest and imprisonment. Bond investigates Freudenstein, who is a double agent about to be paid by her Russian keepers by auctioning the Fabergé egg at Sotheby's in her name.

In 1987, "The Living Daylights" was closely adapted for the first act of Timothy Dalton's eponymous first James Bond film of the same title. While he considers what to do, Smythe is pricked on the torso by a poisonous scorpion fish and, on the verge of death, is pulled under the water by his pet octopus. Octopussy and The Living Daylights is the last book of the James Bond 007 books written by Ian Fleming. This is a fast-moving, suspenseful story, replete with wonderful detail regarding both weapons and Berlin, as well as a neat twist of an ending. In other words, The Living Daylight is a little gem, on the strength of which I’ll be happy to give Bond another chance.

In another review I read this was originally published in an auction house magazine, so there you go.

in New York” takes Bond to the titular city to warn an ex-agent of her boyfriend’s secret KGB affiliation. His idyllic lazy life of boozing, playing bridge and snorkeling is interrupted one day by the advent of 007, who has come to give Smythe notice that a 17-year-old double crime that the major had committed at the tail end of WW2 (I don't want to reveal too much; let's just say that the crimes involve murder and Nazi gold) has finally caught up with him. In 1918 he transferred to the 9th Sudanese Battalion of the Egyptian Army, where he served for two years. As for "007 in New York", some aficionados feel that, though unfilmed, the story's spirit is in the New York City segment of the 1973 film Live and Let Die. In the final story, "007 in New York," Bond essentially has to deliver bad news to an agent working overseas, but we get his impressions of the Big Apple.However, the assignment becomes difficult when Bond discovers that Trigger is a beautiful female cellist whom he had earlier admired. His mission is to warn an ex MI6 employee, Solange, who used to be a first class staff officer for the Secret Service, that the American authorities are getting close to finding out that she is cohabiting with a KGB agent. The real Octopussy story involves some underwater creatures, which I'm all about, even if it means going to Jamaica (ugh, it's humid there, right?

What readers of the Bond stories will discern as compared to the popular films is the greater depth of characterization.Two of these titles were made into full-length films only because they were the only two that had half-decent endings and enough of a back-story to build a script around.