James Bond, the secret service’s most lethal agent, is a marked manDeep inside the Soviet Union, a plot is taking shape.Under the fiendish Colonel Rosa Klebb, the Russian counter-intelligence organisation SMERSH are laying a trap that will not only eliminate Bond, but strike at the very heart of the British establishment.The bait is the irresistible ‘defector’ Tatiana Romanova and a precious coding machine.The weapon is the psychotic assassin, Grant. As 007 is lured to Istanbul, a deadly game begins.