The Living Daylights

The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming (1966) — see its film and TV adaptations.

"**The Living Daylights**" Bond is assigned sniper duty, but when he sees the sniper is a beautiful woman codenamed Trigger, he shoots the butt of her rifle instead of killing her. "**From a View to a Kill**" Bond investigates the murder of a motorcycle dispatch-rider and the theft of his top-secret documents by a motorcycle-riding assassin.

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