For James Bond, British secret agent 007, international espionage can be a dirty business. Whether it is tracking down a wayward Major who has taken a deadly secret with him to the Caribbean, identifying a top Russian agent secretly bidding for a Faberge egg in a Sothebys auction room, or ruthlessly gunning down an unlikely assassin in snipers alley between East and West Berlin, Bond always closes the case - with extreme prejudice.