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* GayParee: While most of the action takes place in the French countryside, a good chunk of the actual text is about Bond lounging around downtown Paris, with vast amounts of SceneryPorn and a lot snobbish griping about [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks how the town just hasn't been the same since the War]].
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* GayParee: While most of the action takes place in the French countryside, a good chunk of the actual text is about Bond lounging around downtown Paris, with vast amounts of SceneryPorn and a lot snobbish griping about [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks [[invoked]][[TheyChangedItNowItSucks how the town just hasn't been the same since the War]].
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Krest brags how he is able to bribe his way to obtain the rare specimens for the Smithsonian if he needs to.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney:
** Krest brags how he is able to bribe his way to obtain the rare specimens for the Smithsonian if he needs to.
** Krest brags how he is able to bribe his way to obtain the rare specimens for the Smithsonian if he needs to.
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* WhipItGood: Krest punishes his wife for perceived slights [[StayInTheKitchen on her place in his household]] by whipping her with a stingray tail.
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* WhipItGood: WhipOfDominance: Krest punishes keeps a stingray tail as a whip, which he personally dubbed as "The Corrector", which he uses to [[DomesticAbuse punish his wife wife]] for perceived slights [[StayInTheKitchen on her place in his household]] by whipping her with a stingray tail.
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* DisposingOfABody: Bond dumps Krest's body overboard so that he won't get caught up in a murder investigation.
* TheDogBitesBack: Bond suspects that Mrs. Krest killed her husband in revenge for his abusive treatment of her, although she never admits it and Bond never asks.
* TheDogBitesBack: Bond suspects that Mrs. Krest killed her husband in revenge for his abusive treatment of her, although she never admits it and Bond never asks.
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* HateSink: Milton Krest is one of the most loathesome characters in the series, a belligerant, abusive, snobbish, prejudiced, narcissistic asshole. Fittingly, he gets one of the most unpleasant deaths in the series.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Upon discovering Krest's body, Bond throws him overboard and cleans up the scene of the crime, making it look as though he fell overboard after one of the ropes holding his hammock broke.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Fleming named Lisl after an ex-girlfriend from Kitzbühel in Austria, where he had travelled in the 1930s, while Columbo was named after Gioacchino Colombo, the Ferrari engine designer.
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* DomesticAbuse: Not only does Milton Krest verbally insult his wife, but he beats her with a stingray tail, which he names "The Corrector".
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Milton was the code name of a Greek sea captain who ferried British soldiers and agents through German patrols and who received the Distinguished Service Order and an MBE, whilst Krest was the name of tonic and ginger beer Fleming drank in Seychelles.
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* CreatorProvincialism: The story is set in Vermont, where Fleming had spent a number of summers at his friend Ivar Bryce's Black Hollow Farm, which became the model for von Hammerstein's hideaway, Echo Lake.
