S.S. Blanche
An aged tanker of around ten thousand tons deadweight was secured alongside the top of the T. It stood well out of the water, its deck perhaps twelve feet above the quay. The tanker was called...
View ArticleHillman Minx
Outside the sun blazed down on the gravel sweep. The interior of the Hillman Minx was a Turkish bath. Bond’s bruised hands cringed as they took the wheel.DR NO. Chapter 20 James Bond has just...
View ArticleSunbeam Alpine Talbot
I’ve got you a car, Sunbeam Talbot coupé. New tyres. Fast. Right car for these roads.Live and Let Die, chapter 16 At the tail of the line stood the black Sunbeam Alpine of Commander John Strangways,...
View ArticleMiami Airport
JAMES BOND, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.Goldfinger, Chapter One Goldfinger begins with James Bond at the...
View ArticleCapungo
And yet there had been something curiously impressive about the death of the Mexican. It wasn’t that he hadn’t deserved to die. He was an evil man, a man they call in Mexico a capungo. A capungo is a...
View ArticleNational Airlines, “Airline of the Stars”
‘National Airlines, “Airline of the Stars”, announces the departure of their flight NA 106 to La Guardia Field, New York. Will all passengers please proceed to gate number seven. All aboard,...
View ArticleTannoy
The Tannoy switched off with an echoing click.Again the Tannoy buzzed and echoed. ‘Transamerica regrets to announce a delay on their flight TR 618 to New York due to a mechanical defect.’Goldfinger...
View ArticleThe 72-lb Silver Bar on Gorda Cay
Every year, treasure hunts for these and other ships are carried out among the Southern Bahamas. No one can guess how much, if anything, has been recovered, but every-one in Nassau knows of the 72-lb....
View ArticleThe Pipe of Peace
The girl gave a cheerful wave of a sunburned hand, raced up the street in second, and stopped in front of The Pipe of Peace, the Dunhills of Nassau.Fleming, Ian. Thunderball (James Bond) (p. 112). In...
View ArticlePeringue/Goltz the French heavy-water specialist/scientist.
… the assassination of Peringue, the French heavy-water specialist who went over to the Communists through Berlin, added, thanks to the importance of his knowledge and the fact that we got him before...
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