Dutch: excellent point. I guess what I found most surprising about the books is that Bond's fears and vulnerabilities generally didn't make it into the films. The film Bond loves all the mini-airplanes and sky-diving and stuff. The closest that we've seen Bond be to the mortal, vulnerable book Bond is in the last movie, in which his captors beat the crap out of him for months on end. (Oh, and I should disclose that our fox terrier is named Miss Moneypenny--the kids' suggestion, actually...)