Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.

…Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond’s natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.

Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.

My dear boy’, Le Chiffre spoke like a father, ‘the game of Red Indians is over, quite over. You have stumbled by mischance into a game for grown-ups and you have already found it a...