'As he seemed to be in luck,' Fleming writes, 'one or two pilot fish started to swim with the shark.' When the croupier (dealer), passes cards to another player, his hands 'lay inert like two watchful pink crabs on the table.' A man joins at seat number 9, 'a distinguished but weak-looking man whose francs were presumably provided by his rich American wife, a middle-aged woman with the predatory mouth of a barracuda.' As cards are dealt across the table, they 'came slithering towards him over the green baize.' Later, when Bond requests his cards, 'the croupier slipped them into the green lagoon between the outstretched arms. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named James Bond.

Early on, Bond plays successfully and other interested gamblers join in. Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. To James Bond it is a murky, foreboding lagoon filled with predacious terrors. Of course, a James Bond film, even one with a plot as well developed. The 'shoe' - the baccarat table - is more than just a green, baize-covered countertop. Taking a cue from the first ever Bond story by Ian Fleming, Casino Royale. In Casino Royale, Bond endeavors to bankrupt Le Chiffre, the paymaster of a Soviet-controlled trade union in France, in a high-stakes game of baccarat. After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007.

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