Vesper Lynd nothing has happened. He phones his superiors and informs them of Vesper's treason and death, coldly saying "The bitch is dead." Bond's feelings for Vesper are not totally extinguished; Fleming's tenth novel, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", reveals that he makes an annual pilgrimage to Royale-les-Eaux to visit her grave. In "Diamonds Are Forever", Bond skips the song "La Vie En Rose" in Tiffany Case's hotel room "because it has memories for him"; this is a song closely associated with Vesper in "Casino Royale". Furthermore, in the novel "Goldfinger", when a drugged Bond believes that he has died and is
Casino Royale (2006 film) fifth best of the series, and chose Vesper Lynd as the fourth best Bond girl in the series. Some newspaper columnists and critics were impressed enough by Craig's performance to consider him a viable candidate for an Academy Award nomination. Roger Ebert gave the film a four out of four star rating, and wrote that "Craig makes a superb Bond ... who gives the sense of a hard man, wounded by life and his job, who nevertheless cares about people and right and wrong," and that the film "has the answers to all my complaints about the 45-year-old James Bond