IAN FLEMING'S 007 IN CIPHER PROTOCOL

In the shadows of a postmodern world straining under the weight of silent wars and untraceable enemies, one man emerges from the crucible of violence and loss to become a weapon forged in silence-James Bond.

Fresh out of the Royal Marines, 28-year-old Bond is recruited into a labyrinthine world of secrets and betrayals. London pulses around him-a living city of fog, blood, and coded whispers. But within the walls of MI6, the real game begins. His every move observed. His instincts pushed to the brink. A ghost through London's alleys, a blade in a city of velvet gloves, Bond undergoes a brutal initiation where trust is an illusion and survival is earned one fractured bone at a time.

As a clandestine test unfolds-designed by M herself and watched by the cold, clinical eyes of Chief of Staff Tanner and the razor-sharp Eve Moneypenny-Bond must navigate a city laced with invisible tripwires. What begins as a psychological gauntlet soon unfurls into something deeper: the remnants of a cipher long buried, a protocol meant to stay broken.

Haunted by the death of his parents in the Aiguilles Rouges and propelled by the quiet fire of unfinished grief, Bond fights not only to earn his number-but to define the kind of man who wears it. With the cold elegance of Skyfall, the aching gravity of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and the seductive danger of John Wick, Cipher Protocol is the blistering origin story of Ian Fleming's most enduring spy. It's not just about how Bond got his license to kill.

It's about why he needed it.