During the torture session, a SMERSH assassin enters and kills Le Chiffre as punishment for losing the money. Bond eventually wins, taking from Le Chiffre eighty million francs belonging to SMERSH.ĭesperate to recover the money, Le Chiffre kidnaps Lynd and tortures Bond, threatening to kill them both if he does not get the money back. With the compliments of the USA.' The game continues, despite the attempts of one of Le Chiffre's minders to kill Bond. As Bond contemplates the prospect of reporting his failure to M, the CIA agent, Felix Leiter, gives him an envelope of money and a note: 'Marshall Aid. The game soon turns into an intense confrontation between Le Chiffre and Bond Le Chiffre wins the first round, cleaning Bond out of his funds. The CIA and the French Deuxième Bureau also send agents as observers.
As part of Bond's cover as a rich Jamaican playboy, M also assigns as his companion Vesper Lynd, personal assistant to the Head of Section S (Soviet Union). M, the Head of the British Secret Service, assigns James Bond, 007, to play against and bankrupt Le Chiffre, the paymaster for a SMERSH-controlled trade union, in a high-stakes baccarat game at the Royale-les-Eaux casino in northern France.
