For Your Eyes Only and Other Stories characters

Appears from the start

A senior British Secret Service officer appearing across five separate cases and encounters. The collection places him in roles ranging from investigator and unofficial avenger to audience for another person's story.

Appears from the start

A British agent working in France who assists Bond after a military dispatch rider is murdered near Paris. Her local knowledge and field support help him investigate the concealed route used by the killers.

First appears in chapter 2

The head of the British Secret Service and Bond's superior. In the title story he approaches Bond not only as an official but as a man seeking justice for personal friends whose killers are beyond normal extradition.

First appears in chapter 2

The daughter of a British couple murdered in Jamaica. She follows the men responsible to their North American refuge and prepares to take revenge with the archery skills her father taught her.

First appears in chapter 2

A former Gestapo officer living behind guards and money on a remote estate near the Canadian border. He ordered the deaths of Judy Havelock's parents after they refused to sell him their Jamaican property.

First appears in chapter 2

A hired killer who leads the attack on the Havelocks and later remains with von Hammerstein's group. He is identifiable by Judy as one of the men directly responsible for her parents' deaths.

First appears in chapter 3

The governor of the Bahamas, an experienced colonial official who hosts Bond after an uncomfortable official dinner. Instead of discussing espionage, he tells Bond a private history meant to challenge Bond's quick judgment of an apparently dull married couple.

First appears in chapter 3

A conscientious colonial civil servant whose marriage initially appears to rescue him from loneliness. His wife's later contempt and infidelity lead him to withdraw every voluntary kindness while maintaining only the formal shell of their household.

First appears in chapter 3

Philip Masters's wife, lively and socially ambitious in a setting she comes to resent. Her affair and her husband's calculated emotional withdrawal form the center of the Governor's account of how a marriage can continue after sympathy has vanished.

First appears in chapter 4

An Italian intelligence contact who presents himself as Bond's ally in a mission against the heroin trade. He identifies a rival as the responsible smuggler and provides Bond with the information for an initial approach.

First appears in chapter 4

A powerful Corsican smuggler whom Kristatos identifies as the organizer of a narcotics route into Britain. His broad criminal reputation makes the accusation plausible when Bond first begins investigating him.

First appears in chapter 4

Colombo's Austrian mistress, used as a point of contact in Bond's attempt to learn about him. She is attractive, perceptive, and more aware of the danger around the rival smugglers than her social manner first suggests.

First appears in chapter 6

A wealthy American businessman who takes Bond aboard his yacht during an expedition in the Seychelles. Possessive and cruel, he treats the natural world, his crew, and his wife as things subject to his authority.

First appears in chapter 6

Milton Krest's much younger wife. She manages his humiliations with practiced restraint while living under the threat of a punishment he administers with a dried stingray tail.

First appears in chapter 6

A well-connected Seychellois man who helps Bond locate a rare fish for Krest's expedition. Knowledgeable about the islands and the sea, he shares Bond's disgust at Krest's destructive methods and abusive behavior.