Издания и произведения

Рассказ о Джеймсе Бонде из сборника Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966). На этот раз агенту 007 предстоит разоблачить махинацию русских спецслужб на аукционе Сотби и выявить резидента КГБ в Лондоне. Другие названия: Собственность леди; Достояние леди; Цена изумрудного шара.

The Secret Service learns that Maria Freudenstein, an employee known to be a double agent working for the Soviet Union, has just received a valuable item of jewelry crafted by Peter Carl Fabergé and is planning to auction it at Sotheby's. Bond suspects that the Resident Director of the KGB in London will attend the auction and underbid for the item, in order to drive the price up to the value needed to pay Maria for her services. Bond attends the auction, spots the man, and leaves to make arrangements for his expulsion from London as persona non grata.