GoldenEye

:For other uses, see Goldeneye (disambiguation)

Plot summary

The story's beginning shows James Bond, agent 007, and his friend Alec Trevelyan, agent 006, infiltrating a Soviet chemical weapons factory in Arkhangelsk, USSR, now Russia. Trevelyan is captured and presumably killed at the hands of Colonel Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov, but Bond escapes.

Related Topics:
Arkhangelsk, USSR - Russia

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Nine years later, after the collapse of the USSR, a prototype attack helicopter, the Eurocopter Tiger, is stolen from the French frigate La Fayette. Former Soviet fighter pilot Xenia Onatopp, whom Bond was investigating following a chance encounter, made that possible by seducing and killing a Canadian Admiral. She accomplished this by crushing his chest with her thighs during sex, thus allowing her male accomplice to impersonate the admiral at the Tiger's demonstration flight the following day. Xenia's yacht, the Manticore moored off Monte Carlo, was identified by MI6 as leased to a front company of the Russian crime syndicate, Janus.

Related Topics:
Eurocopter Tiger - La Fayette - Xenia Onatopp - Canadian - Admiral - Monte Carlo - MI6

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Bond discovers the dead Admiral, but is too late to stop the theft of the Tiger. The helicopter is tracked by a British spy satellite when it lands at a supposed disused satellite control center in Severnaya, Russia. Moments later, Bond, M, and Chief of Staff Bill Tanner witness the sudden electromagnetic pulse explosion that disables their satellite and severs their visual link to the Russian satellite control centre. General Ourumov and Xenia Onatopp detonated one of two GoldenEye EMP weapon satellites over Severnaya to hide their theft of the remaining, second GoldenEye satellite. They escape from the control centre in the stolen Tiger helicopter, which was designed to withstand the electromagnetic pulse, produced when they detonated the GoldenEye satellite. A woman computer programmer, Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova (surname pronounced Sim-yo-no-va) is the only innocent survivor of the attack on Severnaya; Simonova becomes a target for Janus when Gen. Ourumov learns she survived.

Related Topics:
Severnaya - Electromagnetic pulse

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Bond is charged with finding the GoldenEye satellite weapon, and stopping the Janus crime syndicate from using it. His only clue is the lone survivor he saw escaping Severnaya once the visual satellite link is reconnected.

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He discovers, during his mission, that Alec Trevelyan not only is alive, but is the mastermind of Janus. His 'assassination' in Arkhangelsk was a set-up, as Gen. Ourumov works for Janus. Trevelyan plans to detonate the GoldenEye weapon over London, sending Britain "back to the stone age", in vengeance for his Lienz Cossack parents, who were betrayed by the British Army, at the end of World War II, and returned to the Soviets, who had them executed. Before detonating GoldenEye, his plans are to steal from the banks of London, thus having the transaction erased after GoldenEye goes off.

Related Topics:
London - Britain - Cossack - British Army - World War II

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