 a game of cards. This is the first Bond film since  _Licence to Kill (1989)_ (qv) to take inspiration from a Fleming  novel. The character of Miranda Frost was originally named Gala  Brand. This was the name of the Bond girl in Flemings novel  "Moonraker". Other than the duel between Drax and Bond surviving  into "Die Another Day" from Moonraker are: the theme of the villain  having plastic surgery to conceal his real identity (in the novel, a  grenade exploded in Draxs face) and the villain posing as a patriot  by creating a space device claiming to help the government when it  is actually a weapon.