Rise of the Bond villains

By EmmaZahn on Thu, 05/22/2014 - 9:06am |

- Our economy needs investors like Mr Zorin. California welcomes him with open arms.

- May I quote you on that, Mr Howe?

- Certainly. Is there anything else I can tell the Financial Times?

The dialogue is from A View to a Kill, in which James Bond — a la Roger Moore — poses as an FT reporter “James Stock” to figure out whether tech billionaire Max Zorin is simply a savvy microchip entrepreneur or a megalomaniac eugenicist with a plan to takeover the world.

The Bond cannon provides a few other characters who, as we’ll explain below, no longer seem quite so fantastically fictional.

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