Nick Wilkinson

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a lech looking for a little action with a woman he never met, whom he was set up with. And one of them was sent by his employer to inspect a property his boss wants to buy. All three men stay at the same hotel. But when the bellboy gets their names mixed up and gives info meant for someone else. So one of them meets a Realtor who will whatever she has to, to close the sale. And another follows a woman looking for romance. And another goes to the home of the mobster who thinks he's sent there to kill him.

世界は冷戦真っ只中。ジェームズ・ボンドの007復帰トレーニングから物語は始まる。マティーニとフォアグラ、キャビアで怠惰になった身体を鍛えなおすことを新着したMに命令された007。たまたま本部から斡旋されたロンドン郊外の治療施設でボンドはスペクターの女殺し屋ファティマ、そしてアメリカ空軍に所属するジャックの秘密特訓を目撃する。そしてその数日後、ジャックは米空軍より核弾頭搭載巡航ミサイルを2機盗むことに成功する。 この事件を追うボンドは地中海へ向かい、世界的な大富豪のラルゴをマークする。世界の海を豪華クルーザー「空飛ぶ円盤号」（クルーザー全長87m、アドナン・カショーギ所有）で移動しながら慈善活動を行なうビジネスマンだが、裏の顔は秘密結社スペクターのNo.1（スペクターNo.2＝首領は白猫を抱くブロフェルド）であった。そして彼のそばにはジャックの妹であるドミノがいた。