: Bond leads a ninja army in a massive assault on the volcano lair. He successfully triggers the self-destruct on the enemy rocket just seconds before it can trigger World War III, though Blofeld escapes. The Novel Story (1964)

: Bond teams up with Tiger Tanaka , head of the Japanese Secret Service, and agents Aki and Kissy Suzuki . He discovers that a mysterious third party is using a specialized rocket, Bird One , to "swallow" the other spacecraft.

The original novel is the third part of the "Blofeld Trilogy" and follows the events of On Her Majesty's Secret Service .

The story of differs significantly between the original 1964 novel by Ian Fleming and the 1967 film starring Sean Connery. While the book is a dark tale of revenge and psychological recovery, the film—penned by children’s author Roald Dahl —reimagines it as a grand-scale Cold War space race thriller. The Film Story (1967)

: The mastermind is revealed to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld , the head of SPECTRE , who is operating out of a massive hidden base inside a hollowed-out volcano.