Ernst Stavro Blofeld plastic surgery to become his decoy duplicates. In the film version of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", he is not Tracy Bond's actual killer. He drives the car from which Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) fires the fatal shots at Tracy, minutes after she marries Bond. In a sixth appearancein the pre-credit sequence of "For Your Eyes Only"he is an anonymous, bald, wheelchair-bound villain trying to kill Bond once again. Blofeld remains unnamed and unlisted in the film’s end credits. The only clues to his identity are the trademark white cat, similar clothes to his previous onscreen appearances, the dialogue indicating
The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) in the second draft. Publishers Jonathan Cape passed the manuscript to Kingsley Amis for his thoughts and advice on the story, although his suggestions were not used. The novel was serialised in 1965, firstly in the "Daily Express" and then in "Playboy"; in 1966 a daily comic strip adaptation was also published in the "Daily Express". In 1974 the book was loosely adapted as the ninth film in the Eon Productions "James Bond" series, with Roger Moore playing Bond and Fleming's cousin, Christopher Lee, as Scaramanga. A year after James Bond's final confrontation with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, while on a