Bond girl James Bond falls in love with the Bond girl. The first was "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), in which Countess Tracy di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) marries Bond but is shot dead by Irma Bunt and Ernst Stavro Blofeld at the story's end. The second was Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) in "Casino Royale" (2006). Bond confesses his love to her and resigns from MI6 so that they can have a normal life together. He later learns that she had been a double agent working for his enemies. The enemy organisation Quantum had kidnapped her former lover and had been blackmailing
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel) meeting of late [is] somehow gentler, more sentimental, less "dirty"." However, she considered that "it really is time to stop treating Ian Fleming as a Significant Portent, and to accept him as a good, if rather vulgar thriller-writer, well suited to his times and to us his readers." The "New York Herald Tribune" thought "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" to be "solid Fleming", while the "Houston Chronicle" considered the novel to be "Fleming at his urbanely murderous best, a notable chapter in the saga of James Bond". Gene Brackley, writing in the "Boston Globe" wrote that Bond "needs all the