It is beautifully written with excellent insight into Bond, who risks losing his double-O license by disobeying his orders and who seriously considers visiting a brothel. The travelogue section on Berlin is excellent. Basically, Bond goes to New York to warn a girl who used to work for SIS that she is dating a Russian spy. Bond has arranged to meet her in the Reptile House at Central Park Zoo. As ever, he keeps an eye on the finer things of life, and looks forward to sleeping with a girl called Solange.
Bond concludes the dominant part one by thinking 'New York has everything'.
But he soon realises it doesn't, because there is no reptile house in Central Park Zoo. He eventually did meet the girl though. Nicely written, this is an interesting and easily-overlooked edition to the James Bond canon. It reminds us as much of Thrilling Cities as the Bond novels though, and we begin to get our suspicions as to whether 007 is in fact the 'expense-account aristocracy' he claims to loathe'. But such is the precise detail of Bond's eye for the finer things in life that we suspect otherwise.