Fleming Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights

"Octopussy and The Living Daylights" (sometimes published as Octopussy) is the fourteenth and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming. It is a collection of short stories published posthumously in the United Kingdom and the United States by Glidrose Productions, in 1966.It contains three short stories: "Octopussy", "The Living Daylights" and "The Property of a Lady"."Octopussy"
Bond is assigned to apprehend a hero of the Second World War implicated in a murder involving a cache of Nazi gold. Agent 007 appears briefly in this story, which is told mostly in flashback and from the point of view of Major Dexter Smythe, the villain (the later 1983 film of the same name introduced a female protagonist who is said to be the major's daughter)."The Living Daylights"
An unusually morose James Bond is assigned sniper duty to help British agent "272" escape from East Berlin. Bond's duty is to prevent a top KGB assassin codenamed "Trigger" from killing 272 by eliminating the sniper. The assignment becomes difficult, however, when Bond discovers that Trigger is a beautiful female whom he had earlier admired. Bond, never wishing to kill anyone in cold blood, decides instead to shoot the butt of her rifle, preventing her from making the kill."The Property of a Lady"
James Bond investigates a Secret Service employee, Maria Freudenstein, who is a double agent about to be paid by her Russian keepers by auctioning a clock crafted by Peter Carl Fabergé at Sotheby's in her name. The Russians have sent the Resident Director of the KGB in London to attend the auction and underbid for the item in order to push the price to the necessary value to pay for her services as a double agent. Bond attends the auction in hopes of spotting this man.