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* ArmsDealer: Under his legal practices, Tarn has a business in smuggling arms and military vehicles for terrorists and other shady business partners.

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* ArmsDealer: Under his legal practices, Tarn has a business in smuggling arms and military vehicles for terrorists and other shady business partners.



* TheMole: Bond finds out that one person in The Comittee is leaking information to Tarn.

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* TheMole: Bond finds out that one person in The Comittee Committee is leaking information to Tarn.



* SlashedThroat: An SAS man set to guard Trish is found with his thoat slit.

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* SlashedThroat: An SAS man set to guard Trish is found with his thoat throat slit.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: As Archibald and Cuthbert, Cathy and Anna put on an exaggerated act of being duo of killers who talk to each other very formally.

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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: ThoseTwoGuys: As Archibald and Cuthbert, Cathy and Anna put on an exaggerated act of being duo of killers who talk to each other very formally.
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A cruiser, which conveniently has Bond and his partner/lover Fredericka von Grüsse as its passengers, is attacked by pirates and is later sunk by an explosion. The ships's owner Max Tarn is already known for clandestine criminal endeavours, and Bond, the current leader of the newly-established Double-O section (now called Two Zeroes) is sent to investigate him.

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A cruiser, which conveniently has Bond and his partner/lover Fredericka von Grüsse as its passengers, is attacked by pirates and is later sunk by an explosion. The ships's owner ship's owner, Max Tarn Tarn, is already known for clandestine criminal endeavours, and Bond, the current leader of the newly-established Double-O section (now called Two Zeroes) is sent to investigate him.



** After Bond asks Flicka to marry him, it has him reminisciencing of his past loves [[Literature/CasinoRoyale Vesper Lynd]], [[Literature/DrNo Honeychile Ryder]], [[Literature/{{Thunderball}} Domino Vitale]], [[Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService Tracy di Vincenzo]] and [[Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice Kissy Suzuki]].

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** After Bond asks Flicka to marry him, it has him reminisciencing reminiscencing of his past loves [[Literature/CasinoRoyale Vesper Lynd]], [[Literature/DrNo Honeychile Ryder]], [[Literature/{{Thunderball}} Domino Vitale]], [[Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService Tracy di Vincenzo]] and [[Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice Kissy Suzuki]].

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* DomesticAbuser: Once he learned that his wife Trish is quarter Jewish, Max Tarn made her a recipient of violence, which Bond and Flicka learn when they meet her in Jerusalem and witness her battered face.

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* DomesticAbuser: DomesticAbuse: Once he learned that his wife Trish is quarter Jewish, Max Tarn made her a recipient of violence, which Bond and Flicka learn when they meet her in Jerusalem and witness her battered face.
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** [[spoiler:Bond sets Tarn no fire shooting him with flares. He is then finished with a shotgun blast to the back of his head]].

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** [[spoiler:Bond sets Tarn no on fire by shooting him with flares. He is then finished with a shotgun blast to the back of his head]].
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* EvilPlan: The purpose of [[OperationBlank Operation SeaFire]] is to [[spoiler:cause a huge oil spill in the Caribbean and set it on fire, which is then going to be stopped and cleaned by ''Mare Nostrum'', an experimental ship that Tarn had built]].

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* EvilPlan: The purpose of [[OperationBlank Operation SeaFire]] is to [[spoiler:cause a huge oil spill in the Caribbean and set it on fire, which is then going to be stopped and cleaned by ''Mare Nostrum'', an experimental ship that Tarn had built]].built. This is supposed to lead to the invigoration of Nazis]].
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* ThoseWackyNazis: Tarn fashions sees himself as the next Hitler, and plans to restore Nazis into their former glory.

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* ThoseWackyNazis: Tarn fashions sees himself as the next Hitler, and plans to restore Nazis into their former glory.
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The fourteenth ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel by John Gardner, published in 1994.

A cruiser, which conveniently has Bond and his partner/lover Fredericka von Grüsse as its passengers, is attacked by pirates and is later sunk by an explosion. The ships's owner Max Tarn is already known for clandestine criminal endeavours, and Bond, the current leader of the newly-established Double-O section (now called Two Zeroes) is sent to investigate him.

!!This novel has examples of:

* ArmsDealer: Under his legal practices, Tarn has a business in smuggling arms and military vehicles for terrorists and other shady business partners.
* BastardBastard: The government report on Max Tarn, who officially is the surviving son of the Prussian Tarn family, is suspected being an illegitimate child of Graf Klaus von Tarn and his housekeeper.
* BigBad: Sir Maxwell Tarn.
* CoDragons: Maurice Goodwin (the head of Tarn's security) and Connie Spicer (Tarn's muscle).
* ContinuityNod:
** Bond is still together with Flicka, and the events of the [[Literature/NeverSendFlowers previous book]], where they met, is referenced.
** After Bond asks Flicka to marry him, it has him reminisciencing of his past loves [[Literature/CasinoRoyale Vesper Lynd]], [[Literature/DrNo Honeychile Ryder]], [[Literature/{{Thunderball}} Domino Vitale]], [[Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService Tracy di Vincenzo]] and [[Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice Kissy Suzuki]].
** Felix Leiter's "[[Literature/LiveAndLetDie argument with a shark]]" is mentioned when Bond meets him in San Juan. Bond's work with [[Literature/ForSpecialServices his daughter Cedar]] is also mentioned.
* DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo: When an explosion rocks the ''Caribbean Prince'', Flicka falls over and asks this from Bond.
* DomesticAbuser: Once he learned that his wife Trish is quarter Jewish, Max Tarn made her a recipient of violence, which Bond and Flicka learn when they meet her in Jerusalem and witness her battered face.
* EvilPlan: The purpose of [[OperationBlank Operation SeaFire]] is to [[spoiler:cause a huge oil spill in the Caribbean and set it on fire, which is then going to be stopped and cleaned by ''Mare Nostrum'', an experimental ship that Tarn had built]].
* FakingTheDead: After learning that the government is looking into his affairs, Max Tarn arranges the "deaths" of himself and his wife in an exploding car.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Tarn keeps up a friendly facade that hides his diabolicalness, which Bond instantly recognizes.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Bond kills one of the hijackers in the opening chapter by throwing a knife into his throat.
* ManOnFire:
** An officer of ''Caribbean Prince'' is engulfed in flames as he tries to put out a fire, and burns to death despite Bond's attempts of saving him.
** [[spoiler:Bond sets Tarn no fire shooting him with flares. He is then finished with a shotgun blast to the back of his head]].
* TheMole: Bond finds out that one person in The Comittee is leaking information to Tarn.
* RuthlessModernPirates: Pirates attempt to rob the wealthy passengers of ''Caribbean Prince'', but find out that Bond, thanks to his experience as an intelligence agent, is more ruthless.
* SamusIsAGirl: As Bond and Flicka go meet Trish Tarn in Jerusalem, they meet Archibald and Cuthbert who reveal themselves to be actually Cathy and Anna, a pair of women working for her.
* SinkingShipScenario: An explosion rips the hull of ''Caribbean Prince'', and it goes bottom of the sea. It was caused by [[spoiler:a torpedo, which was misfired by the submarine Tarn owns and had on a test run]].
* SlashedThroat: An SAS man set to guard Trish is found with his thoat slit.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: As Archibald and Cuthbert, Cathy and Anna put on an exaggerated act of being duo of killers who talk to each other very formally.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Tarn fashions sees himself as the next Hitler, and plans to restore Nazis into their former glory.
* TheVonTropeFamily: While he doesn't use it, Tarn is officially named Maxwell von Tarn.
* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: Bond approaches Tarn by pretending to be a disgruntled agent who is now no longer important to his government due to the Cold War being over.

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