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) they complained about "the consumer snobbery of his caddish hero". The critic mourned that even worse was to follow, however, when "Bond is threatened with what, for an international cad, would clearly be a fate worse than death: matrimony". However, eventually a "deus ex machina (the machine, reassuringly, is a lethal red Maserati) ... saves James Bond from his better self." Serialisation (1963) "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was serialised in the April, May and June 1963 issues of "Playboy". Comic strip (1964–65) Ian Fleming's 1963 novel was adapted as a daily comic strip published in the "Daily Express" newspaper,