The Politburo is unhappy that Soviet intelligence has suffered recent setbacks (they mention a few recent examples, e.g. Now Grant is called Krassno Granitski, codename ‘Granit’.Ĭut to the head of the SMERSH (Colonel General Grubozaboyschikov, known as ‘G’, p.39), the Head of Army Intelligence and a few other Soviet high-ups having a major conference. In fact he has been made Chief Executioner for Bond’s nemesis, SMERSH, the execution department of what he calls the MGB (p.36). Grant was sent off to do his National Service in Germany, where he promptly defected to the Russians who realised his special value, and selected and trained him intensively to become a perfect killing machine. He discovered this as a violent young man in the countryside of Northern Ireland, graduating from going out at full moon to kill animals, to slitting the throats of tramps and vagrants for fun, and then getting employment for his special talents with the local Sinn Fein/IRA. The opening chapters introduce us to Donovan Grant, ‘Red’ Grant, a psychopath who loves killing. Part one – The Planning (chapters 1 – 10) (p.148)įrom Russia With Love has 28 chapters divided into two parts: 1. Follow your fate and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist pickled in gin or nicotine, or a cripple – or dead. What-might-have-been was a waste of time. Bond put the thought of his dead youth out of his mind.
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