
Bond later investigates the warehouse and nearly falls into the same trap, but overpowers his assailant who falls into the trap and dies. Big, Leiter falls into a Shark Tank and is severely mauled, but survives. While snooping in a dockside warehouse owned by Mr. However, they are found out and Solitaire is captured by Mr. Solitaire happens to join to Bond in order to escape from Mr. Petersburg, Florida to track the treasure's origin. Leiter is also released by a member who shares his love of jazz. To Bond's advantage, she lies, and he is released with a broken finger and manages to kill Tee-Hee Johnson, one of Big's henchmen, by kicking him down a flight of stairs. There, Bond meets the beautiful Solitaire, who is asked to find out if Bond's bogus reasons of being in Harlem were true. Unbeknownst to them, Big's network of informers (controlled by a man named " Whisper") have a lead on them, and when Leiter and Bond head to a strip club owned by Mr. Bond, undaunted, went with Felix Leiter in search of Mr. After they rendezvous, a bomb explodes in the place where Bond was staying. Big operates.īond then meets with his two associates for the case, Captain Dexter and Felix Leiter (who had worked with Bond in the previous novel). Bond travels to Harlem, New York where Mr. Big, another member of SMERSH, has been discovered laundering 17th century gold coins. After the events of the previous novel, James Bond tells M that he would like to get his vengeance on SMERSH, the organization that was responsible for Vesper Lynd's suicide and the "Ш" cut into his left hand.
