Now Le Chiffre has hightailed it to a casino in Royale-les-Eaux to earn SMERSH’s money back in a high-stakes baccarat game. If Bond can bankrupt Le Chiffre at the casino, it could force Le Chiffre to help them out as an informant in exchange for protection. When the scheme went south, Le Chiffre found himself broke and in debt to an organization you do not want to piss off. You see, he played fast and loose with funds from SMERSH (a Russian criminal organization whose name is a short version of the Russian words for “death to spies”) in a scheme to make more money for himself. Appropriately enough, its film adaptation was essentially a reboot of the Bond series with Daniel Craig (you can find a full comparison of the book and movie here), so both versions serve as a sort of introduction to Britain’s suavest, deadliest superspy.Ġ07 is sent to bankrupt Le Chiffre, a criminal money man who is on the brink of disaster. “History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”Īlthough it was the 21st movie in the series of Bond films, Casino Royale was the very first Bond novel written by Ian Fleming.

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