Gorner

There happened to be a still higher summit (called the Gorner Grat), above the hotel, and notwithstanding the fact that it overlooks a glacier from a dizzy height, and that the ascent is difficult and dangerous, I resolved to venture up there and boil a thermometer.

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Like the venerable villains of Fleming's novels, Gorner cheats at gentlemen's games.

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-- Gorner fails to give his adversary a handsome dinner first.

Bond Barely Lives Twice 2008

Worse, Gorner lacks focus -- he can't quite decide what kind of villainy he wants to get up to.

Bond Barely Lives Twice 2008

And there are other ways in which Gorner falls short of the Platonic form of Bond Villain.

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In keeping with this tradition, Gorner has a hairy simian paw where his left hand should be, a grotesquerie he keeps hidden beneath a starched white glove.

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Faulks is a tennis player, and sets Bond against Gorner on a court in the Bois de Boulogne (the chapter excerpted here).

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Bond plays against Gorner for escalating stakes in a game that isn't exactly Hoyle.

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But without a leisurely meal, Gorner never has the chance to grow expansive.

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And if the latter, why doesn't Gorner just use the nuclear weapons conveniently in his possession?

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