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This is a list of fictional characters who appear in the James Bond short story "The Living Daylights", written by Ian Fleming and published since 1966 in the collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights. For a list of characters in the 1987 film The Living Daylights, see here.

James Bond
James Bond is an agent for the British Secret Service who holds a licence to kill. He is given the task of assassinating the KGB sniper "Trigger" before "Trigger" can kill the Service's own Agent 272 as he escapes across the border between East and West Berlin. Bond is sickened at the idea of straight murder, but agrees to the mission. To prepare for this he is sent for target practice to the Century Range at Bisley. The same evening he catches the BEA flight to Hannover and then travels on to West Berlin, where he is instructed in the set-up by Captain Sender, second-in-command of Station WB. The following day, after a Tuinal-fuelled sleep, he whiles away the afternoon by visiting the Zoo, drinking "Molle mit Korn" (schnapps with Löwenbräu chaser) and distracting himself reading Verderbt, Verdammt, Verraten, a lurid novel by Georg Reimann. That evening as he takes up his sniping position, his attention is drawn by a cellist in the female orchestra which practices in the Ministry of Culture building just across the border. Later as Agent 272 makes his break across the frontier, Bond realises that the sniper "Trigger" is in fact the cellist from the orchestra. Rather than kill her as ordered, Bond realigns his sights to hit her Kalashnikov instead. Her gun is successfully disabled and 272 makes it across. When Sender realises that Bond deliberately didn't kill the sniper when he discovered it was the girl he had been "keen on", he says he'll have to put that in his report. Bond is defiant and says he hopes it will cost him his 00 number - in any case, she's had "the living daylights scared out of her" and will never shoot again.

Tanqueray
Tanqueray is the Head of Station WB, the British Secret Service's establishment in West Berlin.

Captain Paul Sender
An Old Wykehamist.