On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel) 1964–1965. In 1969 the novel was adapted as the sixth film in the Eon Productions James Bond film series and was the only film to star George Lazenby as Bond. In 2014 "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was adapted as a play on BBC Radio, starring Toby Stephens. For more than a year, James Bond, British Secret Service operative 007, has been involved in "Operation Bedlam": trailing the private criminal organisation SPECTRE and its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The organisation had hijacked two nuclear devices and subsequently blackmailed the western world, as described in "Thunderball". Convinced SPECTRE no longer exists,
Ernst Stavro Blofeld took on the alias of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, using his mother's maiden name. He then assembled the global criminal organisation known as Spectre. He is revealed to have been trying for years to destroy Bond, whom he resents for having been his father's favourite; he is thus revealed to have been the power behind the villains of the previous three films, who were all Spectre agents. At the end of the film, Bond takes him into custody after foiling his plan to take control of the world's national security intelligence data. This incarnation of Blofeld again wears a jacket without