On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the eleventh of Fleming's James Bond novels and sees Bond on the trail of the world's most deadly man high in the Alps... When Bond rescues a beautiful, reckless girl from self-destruction, he finds himself with a lead on one of the most dangerous men in the world - Ernst Stavro Blofield, the head of SPECTRE. In the snow-bound fastness of his Alpine base, Blofield is conducting research that could threaten the safety of the world. To thwart the evil genius, Bond must get himself and the vital information he has gathered out of the base and keep away from SPECTRE's agents. Which may require the help of someone who is both beautiful and a little reckless...