![]() With her unwilling connivance, Bond is captured and tortured by Le Chiffre. But she is holding a terrible secret - she is actually a Russian double agent and under orders to see that Bond does not escape Le Chiffre. Bond having provided Leiter with a small stake to help him maintain his cover.īond has been provided with an assistant sent out from MI6, the (of course) beautiful but emotionally turbulent Vesper Lynd, who becomes his lover. After several nights intensive play, he manages to beat Le Chiffre, but only with extra money that Felix Leiter in attendance as a covert observer won on the roulette wheel. Monsieur Le Chiffre, "the cipher", is an agent for the Soviet assassination bureau SMERSH, running a baccarat game at a French casino to raise needed operational funds-namely, to recover SMERSH's money that he (Le Chiffre) lost in a failed attempt to establish a chain of brothels.Įxpert baccarat player James Bond (British secret agent 007), is assigned the job of beating Le Chiffre, in the hope that the agent's gambling debts will provoke SMERSH's killing him. Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow. ![]()
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