Movies like Octopussy, Die Another Day, and Moonraker represent the long-running James Bond series at its most outlandish.

The actor who played Bond most (legitimately) was the late Sir Roger, who appeared in seven of Eon’s official Bond productions, while Australian model and former car salesman George Lazenby, who recently retired from acting, played 007 only once.

The book’s plot pitted Bond against Mr. Big, a black gangster and voodoo leader working for SMERSH, the Soviet counterintelligence service. The British secret service has discovered that Mr. Big is using treasures of Bloody Morgan,