Brutal murders are occurring with alarming

similarity in the English countryside: After two

strangled bodies with severed tongues are

round near London, James Bond learns from

a hasty briefing with "M" that the victims were

once members of Operation Cream Cake--

double agents against SMERSH, whom he had

helped smuggle out of East Germany five years

before. But something has gone badly wrong.

To save the survivors, who are clearly ear-

marked for ritual killings, Bond must smoke

out the traitor among them. As always there

is a catch, but this time M s own head is on

the line and Bond must succeed alone, with

no help from anyone in the department.

This time, as the title suggests, there will

be "No deals, Mr. Bond."

With little to go on, Bond rescues the beau-

tiful Heather Dare from the same fate as her

fellow operatives. Together, in a race against

the clock, Bond and Heather slip into Ireland

to save the next intended victim, only to realize

that they face an even more deadly opponent:

Kolya Chernov (code name: Blackfiiar), who

heads the newly reorganized, newly menacing