He phones his superiors and informs them of Vesper's treason and death, coldly saying 'The bitch is dead.'īond's feelings for Vesper are not totally extinguished, however Fleming's eleventh novel, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, reveals that he makes an annual pilgrimage to Royale-les-Eaux to visit her grave. Consumed with guilt and certain that SMERSH will find and kill both of them, she commits suicide (via overdose on sleeping pills), leaving a note admitting her treachery and pledging her love to Bond.īond copes with the loss by renouncing her as a traitor and going back to work as though nothing has happened. After the death of Le Chiffre, she is initially hopeful that she and Bond can start a new life, but realizes this is impossible when she notices a SMERSH operative, 'Gettler', tracking her and Bond's movements. Hence, SMERSH was using this operative to blackmail Vesper into helping them. This man had been captured by SMERSH, and revealed information about Vesper under torture. (Her kidnapping was staged in order to lure Bond into Le Chiffre's clutches.) Prior to her meeting Bond, she had been romantically involved with an RAF operative. Vesper holds a terrible secret, however: she is a double agent working for MVD, and worked with Bond because she was under orders to see that he did not escape Le Chiffre. After he is released from the hospital, they go on a holiday together, and eventually become lovers. Vesper visits Bond every day in the hospital, and the two grow very close much to his own surprise, Bond develops genuine feelings for her, and even dreams of leaving the service and marrying her.

Both are rescued after Le Chiffre is assassinated by a SMERSH agent, but only after Bond has been tortured. After Bond takes all of Le Chiffre's money in a high-stakes game of baccarat, Vesper is kidnapped by Le Chiffre's thugs, who also capture Bond when he tries to rescue her. She poses as a radio seller working with René Mathis and later as Bond's companion in order to infiltrate the casino at Royale-les-Eaux, in which Le Chiffre frequently gambles.

Vesper is an agent of MI6's Station S, loaned to James Bond, much to his irritation, to assist him in his mission to bankrupt Le Chiffre, the paymaster of a SMERSH-controlled trade union.

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