Licence Renewed

OVERVIEW

Bond is back and he’s better than ever. Moneypenny thinks so, and it’s only a matter of time before Lavender Peacock, a beautiful ward of the Laird of Murcaldy, will heartily agree.

Bond is drinking noticeably less these days; he’s perhaps more diligent about exercise and has a special low-tar tobacco blended for his cigarettes at Morlands of Grosvenor Street. But the 1980s have reached the department as well. Political restraints are squeezing in on the service. The elite Double O unit, with authority to kill, is being abolished.

But M takes little notice of these restrictions when it comes to Bond. He has been assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been meeting with a terrorist known as Franco. Together they plan to hijack six nuclear power plants around the world and start a global meltdown, unless Bond can stop them…