Which book is it?

Ammo08

I remember reading a James Bond novel many years ago and it started off with Bond and a fellow agent shooting a Japanese fellow through a bulletproof window. One agent shot the windown and the other agent followed by shooting though the hole into the target?

Which one was it?

I'm 56 now, but when I was a kid my mom didn't like me reading them because they were too racy.

She really didin't like me tagging along with my brothers to watch Dr No in the theatre in North Memphis.

00-Agent

I believe it is Casino Royale.

Peppermill

Casino Royale it is. It is one of the people Bond killed to get his 00. The other is a guy from Norway I believe. It is funny you remember that specific part because it is just mentioned in passing in the book. But I believe the book didn't start with this scene. I thought it was something Bond tells Vesper when Vesper is telling Bond that for her and her colleagues the 00 agents are heroes. Bond replies by saying that becoming a 00 isn't that hard if you are willing to kill a man. Then he goes on about how he has the guys from Japan and Norway to thank for his 00 number.

SpectreBlofeld

Just want to point out that the window wasn't bulletproof... even a regular, non-bulletproof window can deflect a bullet so that it misses the target, so the method was to have two agents fire in succession to take out the window then hit the target.

There was a scene in License to Kill in which Bond uses explosives to take out in actual bulletproof window before sniping a target on the other side (but he is stopped before he can pull it off).

Ammo08

I'm getting ready to start reading the books again. That scene always stuck with me because it is so Bond, so master spy. I loved it.

As kids we tried writing MI6; my cousins and I had very active imaginations. I don't think we ever did get a reply. We did however get some pictures from the FBI when we wrote them. We thoguht the CIA to be very crass and not cultured at all.

SpectreBlofeld

Ammo08 wrote:

As kids we tried writing MI6; my cousins and I had very active imaginations. I don't think we ever did get a reply. We did however get some pictures from the FBI when we wrote them. We thoguht the CIA to be very crass and not cultured at all.

Ha! I love it. When I was a child, I wrote to the head of NASA, and received, in reply, a large envelope full of large glossy photographs of space shuttle stuff, and information on space food, space suits, etc. It made my year!

Similarly, and Bond-related, a few years ago I requested a brochure of information from Piz Gloria's website (the mountain restaurant from OMHSS). I was surprised to receive a package not unlike the NASA one - a large packet of big, glossy photos of the mountains, as well as maps of ski trails, rail lines, parks and hotels in the region. I was sufficiently impressed that I decided to travel there, which I will be doing early summer next year. I am learning German and brushing up on my high school French in preparation, and have kicked a pack-a-day smoking habit purely to fund the trip.

Napoleon Plural

Casino Royale doesn't start off with that scene btw. The scene is also covered in John Pearson's 'Biography of Bond' too, a mock-bio/novel that writes as though Bond really existed, though it's unlikely that's the book you were thinking of.

Ammo08

I'm trying to remember something from almost 50 years ago. I called Hastings today and they have Casino Royale so I'll get it tomorrow if I have time after working with my Scouts.

perdogg

Ammo08 wrote:

I remember reading a James Bond novel many years ago and it started off with Bond and a fellow agent shooting a Japanese fellow through a bulletproof window. One agent shot the windown and the other agent followed by shooting though the hole into the target?

Which one was it?

I'm 56 now, but when I was a kid my mom didn't like me reading them because they were too racy.

She really didin't like me tagging along with my brothers to watch Dr No in the theatre in North Memphis.

That was "James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007"

Silhouette Man

Yes, Casino Royale - how James Bond earned his stripes as a double-O agent in the first instance. -{

Charmed & Dangerous

SpectreBlofeld wrote:

Ammo08 wrote:

As kids we tried writing MI6; my cousins and I had very active imaginations. I don't think we ever did get a reply. We did however get some pictures from the FBI when we wrote them. We thoguht the CIA to be very crass and not cultured at all.

Ha! I love it. When I was a child, I wrote to the head of NASA, and received, in reply, a large envelope full of large glossy photographs of space shuttle stuff, and information on space food, space suits, etc. It made my year!

Similarly, and Bond-related, a few years ago I requested a brochure of information from Piz Gloria's website (the mountain restaurant from OMHSS). I was surprised to receive a package not unlike the NASA one - a large packet of big, glossy photos of the mountains, as well as maps of ski trails, rail lines, parks and hotels in the region. I was sufficiently impressed that I decided to travel there, which I will be doing early summer next year. I am learning German and brushing up on my high school French in preparation, and have kicked a pack-a-day smoking habit purely to fund the trip.

Should we be worried by this, and your name, SpectreBlofeld? Have you cut off your ear lobes and bought a large white cat in preparation too?

Mwuhahaha....

Napoleon Plural

Actually, that white cat might have had a hard time up there at Christmas, it's very cold and snowy.

Perhaps the Spectre henchman had to pick up its turds in the snow.