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The body of Kyoko McMahon is found onboard a flight to London. At almost exactly the same time her mother, father and elder sister are also found dead in their home in a suburb of Tokyo.

Bond is sent by 'M' to investigate whilst accompanying the British Prime Minister to protect him against Yoshida Goro a Japanese mafia boss who is believed to be planning a terrorist attack.

Tiger Tanaka and Reiko Tamura from the Japanese Public Security & Intelligence Agency come to meet Bond on his arrival in Japan. Tanaka informs him of how the McMahon family had deep connections with mafia boss Yoshida Goro - the so-called man with the red tattoo - and how Goro was deeply interested in the family's pharmaceuticals business. He also tells Bond about Mayumi, McMahon's youngest daughter who had left home after arguing with her father and whose whereabouts are no longer known. And so Bond begins his investigations in Tokyo.

Bond and Tanaka make their way to the McMahon family home, where Bond's attention is drawn by a number of unusual mosquitoes flying around the pond.

Bond's investigations draw him and Reiko into ever more danger. While they are investigating the killing of Mayumi's ex-boyfriend in Shinjuku they are attacked by two thugs on motorbikes. At the Thkiji fish market one of the thugs pulls a gun and as he flees, Bond gives chase, only to lose him in the Kabuki theatre.

That night Bond is called out by a mystery man, yet as soon as he enters the building he is hit on the head and knocked unconscious. Tied to a chair and beaten, he is only just able to make a lucky escape and flee to another room where he finds slides of mosquitoes and a mass of documents to be sent to an address in Hokkaido.

Bond later recalls that while he was being beaten he overheard talk of "Meeting in Kamakura" and sets off with Tanaka. At Kamakura they catch sight of a suspicious group of three men in front of the great Buddha including one very short man with a balding head who bears a remarkable resemblance to the mythical Japanese creature, the Kappa.

Bond and Reiko take the overnight train "Cassiopeia" to Hokkaido. The two of them are relaxing in the suite at the front of the train, when the Kappa releases killer mosquitoes into the room, one of which bites Reiko on the arm.

The train makes an emergency stop in the Seikan tunnel, but as Bond climbs out to chase the Kappa he is dealt a heavy blow and passes out. He recovers only to find himself bound and suspended from the roof of the tunnel with the train approaching. Missing danger by a whisker Bond whips out his miniature knife and slices through the rope just missing the oncoming train.

Bond, who is searching for Mayumi in the Sapporo soap-land, relates all that has happened so far before making his way up to Yoshida Goro's hideout at the Noboribetsu hot-spring resort. Fending off a violent attack from Goro's henchmen he sneaks into their hideout and finds a breeding facility for thousands and thousands of killer mosquitoes.

Bond is captured by two machine-gun wielding underlings and led to a room with a large screen, whereon appears Yoshida Goro himself. Goro goes on to explain his plan to release the killer mosquitoes at the G8 summit on Naoshima and throw the world into chaos.

Moments before Bond and Mayumi are plunged into the tank of mosquitoes Bond uses a miniature bomb to escape from the facility and give his captors the slip.

The stage is set for the final show-down at the G8 summit on Naoshima, to where Bond travels next...

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