Tree Cover: How the enemy spies have hidden themselves in NATO territory for so long - with a fake shrub leading to an underground chamber, complete with periscope.

Interservice Rivalry: A minor but running theme of the story is how MI-6 constantly chafes against the micromanagement of the NATO High Command in France.Gay Paree: While most of the action takes place in the French countryside, a good chunk of the actual text is about Bond lounging around downtown Paris, with vast amounts of Scenery Porn and a lot snobbish griping about how the town just hasn't been the same since the War.Bond uses this tactic against the spies by dressing as the fake-courier and luring them out of their hideout. Dressing as the Enemy: The (possible) GRU agents' operation hinges on one of them tricking other couriers by dressing as them.Distressed Dude: Bond's life is saved by the Girl of the Week!.Beneath Notice: M thinks that perhaps the enemy has disguised himself as a gardener or garbage man or such.Only the names of the first and the third story made their way to the films fourteen and twenty-two, and elements of the last one were implemented to the sixteenth. The second and the fourth story were turned into the twelfth James Bond film. 'The Hildebrand Rarity': After investigating possible Communist activity in Seychelles, Bond uses his remaining free time to join an expedition to find a specimen of the rare eponymous fish.'Risico': After he is sent to mission in Italy to sabotage the local drugtrade, Bond is caught between two feuding crimebosses.'Quantum of Solace': At the party of a Jamaican governor, Bond is told a story of a failed marriage.'For Your Eyes Only': When close friends of M are murdered by Cuban gangsters, he sends Bond after them.'From a View to a Kill': Bond is sent to France to aid in an investigation involving murder of a courier and the theft of the important papers he was carrying.The eighth James Bond book by Ian Fleming, and the first one to be a collection of short stories.

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