A collection of both classic intrigue and intrepid self-examination, For Your Eyes Only packs full, vibrant worlds into five classic tales. ''From a View to a Kill'' whisks Bond to the French countryside where he must go undercover to expose a deadly secret-intelligence plot, and in ''For Your Eyes Only, '' 007 is absorbed into a private vendetta of M''s, blurring the lines between the personal and professional. In ''Quantum of Solace, '' Bond attends a dinner party in the Bahamas and learns how passion can soon twist into cruelty, while ''Risico'' forces the secret agent to fight for the lesser of two evils in a smuggling war set amid the Mediterranean. Finally, ''The Hildebrand Rarity'' lands 007 in an old-fashioned murder mystery at sea, where even he has a secret to keep.