Everyone though that Commander James Bond, one of the best agents in the British Secret Intelligence Service,was dead. A year ago the Head of the Secret Service , who was a man known only by the intial ‘M’, had chosen Bond to go to Japan on a highly Important mission. His task had been to garther secret information from the Japanese about the Service Union. But the job had gone badly wrong and Bond had became involved in a langerous battle with a known criminal called Blofeld. It was thought that Bond had killed Blofeld, but no one knew what had happened to Bond himself after the fight. He had simply disappeared. Those who knew him at the Secret Service had now given up any hope that he could still be alive.