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She takes him to the local commanding officer, the American SHAPE head of security, Colonel Schreiber whom does not see eye to eye with Bond. James Bond, taking a break in Paris from a failed assignment in Austria, is called in to investigate and meets a young woman from the local station sent to pick him up, Mary Ann Russell, whom he is rather attracted to. The rider was en route from SHAPE, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, then located in Versailles, to his base, Station F, in Saint-Germain in France.

The rider kills an actual NATO dispatch rider carrying reports from NATO headquarters to an MI6 station. He sees a similar messenger in front of him. He is outfitted as a Royal Corps of Signals messenger, but he carries a Luger. In a rural part of northern France, a motorcyclist screaming down a forest road. The original name for the story was "The Rough with the Smooth", which was also the original title of the books, before For Your Eyes Only was chosen for publication. The title is taken from a version of the words to a traditional hunting song, "D'ye ken John Peel?": "From a find to a check, from a check to a view, from a view to a kill in the morning". The story was one that Fleming had drawn up for an unproduced television series. "From a View to a Kill" is a short story written by Ian Fleming featuring his fictional secret agent James Bond, first published in 1960.