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The ups and downs of Bond's relationship with M is pretty interesting. M is a pretty hard, unsympathetic boss but even when they clash Bond usually later agrees that M's harshness was called for. Earlier, the book notes that in his relationships with women, he was irritated by any kind of demand; now we learn that with M he seems to crave that structure.

"He was genuinely shocked when his women were revealed as human beings." is a crazily succinct statement about misogyny coming from a dude in the 70s.