"For Special Services"
Inside June 1941 General William Donovan was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to the position of Coordinator of Information (COI), a position that later transformed into the chairmanship of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Upon asking by Donovan, Ian Fleming was contacted to write the drawn-out memo describing the structure & functions of a secret-service organization. Area of this memoranda were late utilized in the official charter for the OSS, which was later on dissolved when World War II in 1945. For appreciation of Fleming's operate Donovan presented Fleming by owning the .38 Police Caring Colt revolver by using a inscription, "For Special Services".

Around 1944, Donovan proposed to President Roosevelt the creation of the recently professional, "which will procure intelligence both by overt and covert methods and will at the same time provide intelligence guidance, determine national intelligence objectives, and correlate the intelligence material collected by all government agencies." This organization was late established inside 1947 as the Central Intelligence Agency; a directly decendent of the OSS.

Plot summary
Attach team using CIA agent Cedar Leiter, daughter of his old friend, Felix Leiter, to investigate one Markus Bismaquer, world health organization is suspected of reviving a criminal organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E. which was believed to have been disbanded years earlier following the death of its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld at the hands of Bond in You Only Live Twice.

MI6 learns that Bismaquer is an obsessional collector of uncommon prints, therefore Attach & Cedar visit a human's brobdingnagian spread inside Amarillo, Texas posing as art dealers. Their confessedly identities come presently revealed, but not until Attach holds his have each around an impromptu (& fixed) auto race intended by Bismaquer, & in the bed of Bismaquer's frustrated married woman, Nena. Nena, world health organization has merely of these breast, quickly wins Attach's heart & his sympathy & Attach is convinced that Bismaquer is a a single at present existence known as the recently Blofeld.

Attach discovers that a revitalised S.P.E.C.T.R.E. plans to choose all over control of NORAD headquarters in order to benefit control of America's military space satellite network. His avowedly identity revealed, Attach is captured & brainwashed into believing he's an Western general assigned to inspect NORAD. Although he has been install to exist as flushed in the following attack by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. forces on the base, Attach regains his personality & his memory. Apparently Bismaquer, world health organization is epicene, has taken a liking to Attach & sabotaged the hypnosis.

After Attach comes back to Bismaquer's spread, he witnesses a human existence flushed by Nena, world health organization is in point of fact a mind behind a operation & a girl of Blofeld, a fact she confesses to Attach good prior to falling into the devastating grip of her favorite pythons. She is late put away from her misery by Felix Leiter, world health organization arrives on the scene to help rescue his girl.

Main characters
James Bond M Ann Reilly Cedar Leiter Felix Leiter

;Markus Bismaquer: Bismaquer, married to Nena Bismaquer, occurs as collector of ticket prints & a creator of an ice cream plant around Amarillo, Texas. He is believed to exist as either the directly descendant or even the intimate of Ernst Stavro Blofeld and to have resurrected a evil organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Gardner alludes, in further than a single occasion, that Bismaquer really occurs as homosexual and possibly got fallen for Attach.

;Walter Luxor: Is Bismaquer's partner & the high superior member of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. At one point he is believed to exist as the reanimated Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

;Mike Mazzard: Occurs as member of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. tasked to bring Attach to Amarillo. When Attach objects this offer, Mazzard cherry tries to put to death Attach inside Washington D.C.. Gean as well helps Luxor within infiltrating NORAD HQ.

;Nena Bismaquer: Is the married woman of Markus Bismaquer. She late turns intent on exist as a girl of Ernst Stavro Blofeld & a successor & leader of S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

Trivia
This is the 2nd novel inside Gardner's Enthralled series where Attach causes the Saab 900 Turbo; however, this is a 1st book where the car is referred to by it's further popular nickname, a Silver Beast.