Lady In Red
A woman at the Kiss Kiss club who is delighted to be asked to dance by Bond, until Fiona Volpe cuts in with the intention of making it the agent's last dance. (TB)

Lady Rose, The
The name of Kara Milovy's Stradivarius cello, made in 1724. Koskov bought the cello at auction in New York for $150,000 of Brad Whitaker's money, giving it to his girlfriend, Kara Milovy. (TLD)

La Fayette
The French frigate moored in Monaco, from which the Tiger stealth helicopter was to be given its first public demonstration. Instead, it is hijacked by Xenia Onatopp and her unidentified accomplice. (GE)

Lake Toplitz
A lake in the Seltz Cummergud (?), where a hoard of Nazi gold was sunk near the end of World War II. Officials of the Bank of England managed to obtain one bar, which is used by Bond to get the attention of Auric Goldfinger. (GF)

Lambda Gas
A near-instant fatal nerve agent, which then disperses harmlessly almost immediately after use. Angelo uses it to kill first Major Derval, then the crew of the Vulcan bomber he is hijacking. (TB)

Lamora, Lupe
(Talisa Soto)
Sanchez's girlfriend (one of a long line, it seems), who was a former casino dealer and winner of a beauty contest - though the judges had been bribed by Sanchez. Although she enjoys the luxuries that Sanchez's lifestyle provides, she is afraid of him - with good cause, as she finds when Sanchez has her lover's heart cut out and whips her with the tail of a stingray. She is attracted to Bond on sight, not turning him in despite having several occasions to do so. After Sanchez is killed, she asks Bond to stay with her, but doesn't seem that disappointed when he refuses, as she winds up with El Presidente instead. (LTK)

La Porte, Mme
(Maryse Guy Mitsouko)
An agent of MI6's French office, who provides backup when Bond goes after 'Madame' Bouvois. (TB)

Largo, Emilio
(Adolfo Celi)
SPECTRE's Number 2, Largo is the mastermind behind the NATO Project. Unlike Blofeld, he prefers to lead from the front, personally swimming out to locate the sunken bomber and killing Angelo, as well as later battling with Bond above and below the waves.
Largo wears an eyepatch on his left eye, and enjoys baccarat and clay pigeon shooting, though inevitably he loses both to Bond. His principal passion is fishing, however; he collects big game fish, including sharks, for marine institutions, keeping a pool of them at his house in Nassau. He is the euphemistic 'guardian' of Domino Derval, and his base of operations is the luxury yacht Disco Volante.
His plan almost works, but Bond inevitably foils it. Attempting to escape on the Disco Volante's hydrofoil section, he is shot with a harpoon by Domino as revenge for the death of her brother. (TB)

Lark
A brand of cigarettes, which Bond also uses to detonate the Dentonyte he's placed around Sanchez's armoured windows. The seemingly ordinary cigarettes actually contain electronics for a radio-controlled detonator. (LTK)

Larry
A Las Vegas police officer who tries (and fails) to chase down Bond's Mustang. (DAF)

Laser
1: Goldfinger's latest 'toy', part of Operation Grand Slam, where it was used to gain entry to Fort Knox - though not before it was almost tested on Bond! (GF)
2: An update of the DB5's tyre slashers in Bond's Volante, which can slice a car's body clean off its chassis. (TLD)
3: A useful tool in Bond's missions inside Russia - he uses one attached to his grapnel gun to burn his way into the Arkangel nerve gas factory, and a much smaller (but just as powerful) one in his Omega watch to cut a hole in the floor of the railway carriage in which he has been trapped by Trevelyan. (GE)

Laser Gun
A powerful weapon used by Q Branch in testing, and Drax's forces and the US Space Marines in orbit. (MR)

Laser Satellite
Blofeld's orbital weapon, which used a huge number of stolen diamonds to concentrate its beam to such an extent that it could instantly vaporise targets on the Earth - even submarines under water! Its targets included a missile silo in North Dakota, a Soviet ballistic missile submarine and a Chinese ICBM complex. (DAF)

Latex Mask
Means of disguise which although in real life doesn't look anything like skin, always looks incredibly realistic in the world of 007. (FRWL, LALD)

LAX
Los Angeles international airport. Bond arrived in the United States here on several occasions. (DAF, MR)

Lazar
(Marne Maitland)
A Portugese gunsmith based in Macau, who specialises in making unusual weapons for individual customers - including Francisco Scaramanga. He is delighted at first to meet Bond, saying it would be the proudest moment of his career to make a unique weapon for 007, but his opinion is probably revised when Bond threatens him with one of his own guns in order to gain information. (TMWTGG)

Le Cercle
London gambling club, where we first meet James Bond. (DN)

Leech
A squishy bloodsucking invertebrate who took a fancy to Bond's chest in the grounds of the Monsoon Palace. Perhaps if he hadn't shaved it, the leech would have been grossed out and not bothered! (OP)

Lee, Chuck
(David Yip)
A CIA agent in San Francisco, whose cover when he meets Bond is a worker on the city's fish wharves. He is murdered by May Day before he can request help from Washington to investigate Zorin - leaving Bond and Stacey Sutton on their own. (AVTAK)

Left Luggage Lockers
A Passenger service at McCarren airport, Las Vegas, where Tiffany Case leaves the toy dog containing the smuggled diamonds. (DAF)

Leiter, Della
(Priscilla Barnes)
Nee Churchill, Della is Felix Leiter's new wife, whom he marries at a ceremony in Miami. The wedding is a very short one, though - escaped drug lord Franz Sanchez has his men rape and murder her in revenge for Leiter and Bond originally capturing him. (LTK)

Leiter, Felix
(Jack Lord, Cec Linder, Rik Van Nutter, Norman Burton, David Hedison, John Terry)
A CIA agent known to Bond by reputation even before their first meeting in Jamaica. The two agents quickly become friends, Leiter often providing assistance to the MI6 man all over the world. He is all too well aware of Bond's drinking and womanising, but is willing to overlook it.
Leiter's office at one point overlooks the White House (despite the CIA having always been based in Langley, Virginia). He eventually leaves the CIA to work for the DEA, at the same time becoming involved with Della Churchill, whom he eventually marries. His DEA activities have however made him a powerful enemy - Columbian-born drug lord Franz Sanchez, who in retaliation for Leiter and Bond's capture of him has Della raped and murdered on their wedding night, and feeds Leiter to a hungry shark, costing him a leg. Leiter appears to recover successfully, though understandably retires from government service. (DN, GF, TB, DAF, LALD, TLD, LTK)

Lektor
A Russian coding machine, stolen from the KGB by SPECTRE and used as part of a plot to set MI6 and the KGB against each other. The Lektor is about the size of a typewriter, and weighs ten kilograms. (FRWL)

Lenkin
(Peter Porteus)
The curator of the National Fine Art Repository, and one of General Orlov's co-conspirators in his plan to replace the treasures in the museum with fakes in order to sell the real items abroad. He becomes terrified when an unscheduled inventory is announced, as both the real and fake Coronation Eggs are missing, which will result in the plot being uncovered. (OP)

Lepidoptery
The study and collection of butterflies and moths. Both M and Scaramanga are devotees of the subject, and Bond possesses a good knowledge of it as well. (OHMSS, TMWTGG)

Level 240 (AZ)
The level of military armament to which MI6 believe the Manticore may have been secretly armed. (GE)

Lexington
Pam Bouvier's contact in Isthmus City. (LTK)

Leyland Sherpa
The Egyptian telephone company van (number 7214) that Jaws uses as a cover for his murder of Max Kalba, and later rips to pieces with his bare hands when Bond and Anya try to make an escape in it. The van has a microphone hidden in the rear compartment, allowing Jaws to realise that he has unwanted passengers. (TSWLM)

LH 450
The number of the Lufthansea flight that takes Bond from Amsterdam to Los Angeles. (DAF)

Lienz Cossacks
A group of Russians who, during World War II, worked with the Nazis against the Soviet government. When they surrendered to the British in Austria at the end of the war, they expected to be taken in so they could continue to fight the communists. Instead, realpolitik demanded that the British government return them all to Stalin, who had them all shot. There were a few survivors, though - one of them was the young Alec Trevelyan. (GE)

Limpet Mine
Adhesive explosive device planted on the wall of Kerim Bey's office by the KGB, in retaliation for what they thought was his killing of one of their Bulgarian agents. Another is used by a ninja to blow a hole in the shutter protecting SPECTRE's volcano base, allowing Tiger Tanaka's forces to enter. (FRWL, YOLT)

Limpet Speaker
A magnetic device attached to the hull of the captured USS Wayne, allowing Stromberg to speak to its crew. (TSWLM)

Lincoln Continental
An American luxury car. Mafia boss Solo meets his end in one of these, shortly before it is crushed to a cube. (GF)

Lincoln Lounge
A room in the Whyte House casino where Shady Tree and his Acorns do their act. (DAF)

Linda
(Kell Tyler)
A rich (and bored) young woman, who is cruising around Gibraltar on her private yacht bemoaning the fact that the only men she can find are playboys and tennis pros. Until Bond parachutes onto her boat, that is. (TLD)

Ling
(Tsai Chin)
Seemingly treacherous Chinese bedmate of Bond's in Hong Kong, who traps him in a folding bed before letting in a pair of assassins to riddle it with bullets, but actually part of a ruse to make Bond's enemies believe he is dead. (YOLT)

Ling, Mr
(Burt Kwouk)
Chinese official and nuclear specialist, who visits Goldfinger's factory in Switzerland to check on the progress of Operation Grand Slam. He is apparently the equivalent of a 00 agent, recognising Bond and telling Goldfinger who he is. He is shot by Goldfinger, who is dressed as a US army officer, so that the villain can escape when American troops storm Fort Knox. (GF)

Ling Po
One of Hai Fat's underlings at his Bangkok estate. (TMWTGG)

Lint, Radioactive
Substance developed by Q to aid in the tracking of targets from a distance, by placing it in their pockets. M is not especially impressed by it. (OHMSS)

Liparus
The pride of the Stromberg Shipping Line, a million ton-plus supertanker that actually houses a massive docking bay which can swallow up three nuclear submarines in one go. Bond's naval experience leads him to spot something odd about the ship when he sees a model of it in Atlantis; his suspicions lead to the discovery that the Liparus has never put into port in the nine months since it was launched. As well as its massive bow doors, the Liparus can also generate a field that causes interference with a submarine's electrical systems, forcing it to surface where it can be swallowed at leisure. An armoured operations room off the docking bay houses the submarine tracking system and a communications array, and a monorail system links the bay to an armoury where nuclear missiles from the submarines are stored. After Bond and the crews of the three captured submarines take control in a pitched battle, the damage sustained to the ship's hull causes the massive tanker to explode and sink. (TSWLM)

Liparus Captain
(Sydney Tafler)
The commander of Stromberg's massive oil tanker-cum-submarine swallower, who erroneously believes his operations room to be impregnable. He seems extremely nervous about reporting the escape of the prisoners to Stromberg. (TSWLM)

Lippe, Count
(Guy Doleman)
A SPECTRE agent involved in the organisation of the NATO Project. While at Shrublands heath farm, he is recognised by Bond from a tattoo on his wrist. Lippe tries to kill Bond, but fails. This, as well as his poor choice of Angelo as the crucial man in the Project, leads Blofeld to order his execution. While trying to kill Bond again, his car is blown up by a rocket fired from Fiona Volpe's motorbike. (TB)

Liquid Helium
A very cold liquid (-453 degrees F) used to maintain the status of the superconductivity coils in Scaramanga's solar energy station. (TMWTGG)

Liquid Nitrogen
Extremely cold liquid used in the creation of superconductors. Any living tissue that touches it is instantly frozen solid, as Boris Grishenko discovers. (GE)

Little Nellie
A one-man autogyro designed by Q, and used by Bond to check out the island of Matsu. The aircraft comes under attack by SPECTRE forces, but Little Nellie's on-board arsenal of twin machine guns, rocket launchers, heat-seeking missiles, rearward flamethrowers, smoke projectors and aerial mines makes short work of the interlopers. Bond has used the aircraft on at least two missions. (YOLT)

Little Old Lady
(Varley Thomas)
This rosy-cheeked fraulein mans a gate at Goldfinger's Swiss factory. Despite her benign appearance, she is not averse to shooting at British agents with a machine gun! (GF)

'Live And Let Die'
A song performed by a singer in the New Orleans Fillet Of Soul restaurant. Music to drop into a hidden trapdoor to. (LALD)

Liz
(Catherine Rabett)
One of Felix Leiter's two female aides in Tangier, who along with Ava helps Bond escape from the local police after his 'murder' of Pushkin. (TLD)

Locket
A heart-shaped pendant worn around the neck of the late 003, containing a picture of his wife and child, and also the EMP-resistant microchip he has stolen from the Russians, (AVTAK)

Lockpick
A useful tool for the secret agent, capable of opening any lock 007 may come across. Bond has been equipped with both physical and electronic devices. (MR, AVTAK, LTK, GE)

Locque, Emile Leopold
(Michael Gothard)
An enforcer in the Brussels underworld, with convictions for several brutal murders for which he was sentenced to life in Namur prison on January 31st 1975. He escaped by strangling his psychiatrist, after which he worked for drug syndicates in Marseilles and Hong Kong before going to work for Kristatos in Greece. Locque commissions Hector Gonzales to murder Sir Timothy Havelock, and later attempts to kill both Bond and Melina Havelock in Cortina. His attempts fail, but he did murder Bond's contact, Luigi Ferrara. Bond catches up with Locque at Kristatos's warehouse in Albania, where after a firefight he tries to escape in his Mercedes. Bond shoots him in the shoulder, making the car crash through a wall and balance precariously on a cliff-edge. As Locque watches helplessly, Bond tosses him the dove pin that he had planted on Ferrara's body before kicking the car and its occupant off the edge. (FYEO)

Log Cabin Girl
(Sue Vanner)
A blonde Russian with whom Bond is engaged in some vocabulary enlargement when his call to arms comes through. No sooner is Bond out of the door than she reports his position to the waiting KGB killers outside. (TSWLM)

Lopez, President Hector
(Pedro Armendariz)
The head of state (for life, which doesn't necessarily denote a long term) of whatever South American state Isthmus City is the capital. He is completely in the pocket of Sanchez, meekly accepting a smaller-than-usual payoff after Sanchez chastises him for not speaking out when he was arrested. El Presidente eventually ends up with Lupe Lamora, a match of spineless gold-diggers made in heaven. (LTK)

Loti
(Diana Lee-Hsu)
The partner (and apparent lover - she gets very upset when he's wounded) of Kwang, and an agent of the Hong Kong police working undercover to destroy Sanchez's drugs empire. When Kwang is mortally wounded in an ambush on their hideout, he orders her not to be taken alive, orders she carries out. (LTK)

Lotus Esprit
Bond has had three of these British sports cars. The first, a white model with the registration PPW 306R, is about the most gadget-intensive vehicle in the series! As well as being an agile and bullet-resistant runner on the road, where its cement guns are used to dispose of Jaws and his mob, it can also transform into a submarine. In this mode, it is equipped with torpedo launchers in a flip-up panel in the nose, guided missiles that fire vertically from the rear windscreen, a rearward smokescreen and a mine layer in the belly. During transformation, the wheels fold into the body and are covered by sliding panels, hydroplanes emerge from above the wheel arches and a combined rudder and propeller assembly emerges from the rear. Although the Lotus takes a beating from Stromberg's underwater forces, it still survives to make it to shore where it surprises some holidaymakers, including the Wine Drinking Man in his first appearance.
The second Lotus, a white Turbo (registration OPW 654W), only has a short life - one of Hector Gonzales's guards tries to break into it, setting off its 'burglar protection' - a bomb that destroys the entire vehicle! It is replaced by a bronze Turbo (registration OPW 678W) that Bond takes to Cortina, and in which Luigi Ferarra meets his end at the hands of Locque. (TSWLM, FYEO)

Lot Number 48
The Sotheby's auction number of the Faberge Coronation Egg. (OP)

Lovers' Lesson Number 1
"We have no secrets" - the first of Bond's guidelines to Solitaire after introducing her to the pleasures of Earthly love. (LALD)

Lovers' Lesson Number 2
"Togetherness, until death do us part, or thereabouts" - Bond's second lesson to Solitaire. (LALD)

Lovers' Lesson Number 3
A rather more hands-on lesson for Solitaire than Bond's previous snippets of advice. After all, as Bond observed, "There's no sense in going off half-cocked". (LALD)

Lovers' Lesson Number 4
"Follow the scarecrows" - perhaps not quite as useful as Bond's earlier advice on love. (LALD)

Lovers, The
Tarot card that Solitaire is surprised to find represents her and Bond's futures. (LALD)

Lox
Either the American name for smoked salmon or, if you're looking for a rocket, the technical term for liquid oxygen, which is used to make rocket fuel. Bond's discovery of an order for 500 tons of the substance confirms Osato's link to SPECTRE's spacecraft. (YOLT)

Ludkin
(Ken Sharrock)
The brutal jailer at the Russian airbase in Afghanistan run by Colonel Feyador. He takes great pleasure in telling Kara Milovy that he hasn't 'had' a female prisoner for some time, and is at his happiest when beating the inmates. Bond sets off his stun gas keyring in Ludkin's face, but he's obviously no normal man, as the gas only affects him for a few seconds - long enough, though, for Bond to gain the upper hand. Ludkin ends up with a broken arm and crushed testicles, locked in one of his own cells. (TLD)

Luger
Handgun used by slow-witted Chinese guards at Goldfinger's stud farm. (GF)

Lunar Simulator
Large studio at Tectronics that simulates the surface of the Moon for astronaut training. (DAF)

Luxor Temple
The Egyptian monument where Bond and Anya chase Jaws in an attempt to obtain the microfilm plans of the submarine tracking system. (TSWLM)

LU-6789
One of the alternate registration numbers of Bond's Aston Martin DB5. (GF)