A circus clown is murdered in the shadows of the Berlin Wall, a heavily guarded priceless Soviet art treasure turns up at a London auction, a tycoon arrives at conferences on a love barge, served by an army of scantily-clad lethal lovelies -- a mixture of mystery and action that only James Bond can unravel.

Max Zorin has an earthshaking scheme to gain control of the world computer market and it is up to 007 to stop him.