Trouble is brewing for James Bond after the death of delusional SPECTRE agent Julius No in Dr. No (1962) when criminal mastermind Number One sets a trap to lure the dangerous MI6 agent to his death. And thirsty for revenge, #1 enlists the help of feared Soviet counter-intelligence operative Colonel Klebb to finish the job. As the calculating chess master Kronsteen concocts a devilishly ingenious assassination plan, Klebb's pawn Tatiana Romanova, a statuesque Soviet Embassy cypher clerk, pretends to defect to help Bond steal a top-secret Lektor decoding device. Now, the promise of affection becomes a weapon in bustling Constantinople, and psychopathic SPECTRE henchman Red Grant is hot on their trail, bent on murder. Will Bond take the bait and meet his end in the fast Orient Express?