Fictional secret agents like Dominic Flandry and James Bond often seem to work solo although it helps to have backup, e.g., Chives. When isolated on Scotha, Flandry has no alternative but to work alone. However, on occupied Vixen, he joins forces with the local resistance movement. Later when he parleys with the pretender, Magnusson, he has gone as part of a delegation and meanwhile is also in cahoots with another team of Terran agents who have been sent to Merseia and who are unfortunately arrested. In
The Day Of Their Return, intelligence gathered by Flandry is shared with a High Commissioner, Chunderban Desai.
In Diamonds Are Forever, Bond is inserted into a case that had been initiated by Scotland Yard Special Branch and, in mid-Atlantic, he receives a signal that not only discloses the identity of the mysterious mastermind, ABC, but also alerts 007 as to what action he should take next. In this novel at least, Bond is clearly part of a team.
That is all for today, folks. I really am trying to blog a bit less.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
As I recall, when Chunderban Desai asked his superiors on Terra to search for any information that might be found about Aycharaych and the planet "Jean Baptiste," one of the things they did was to inquire of Naval Intelligence for any information they might have. That was how the Commissioner came to know of how Flandry gathered some genuine information about Aycharaych.
Here, just for once, we see gov't agencies working as they should, but so often don't, cooperatively and sharing needed information!
Ad astra! Sean
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