A fictional spy as recurring index: the car, the Caspian, the Scot at the BP table
This is Jonathan Hare's account, with its provenance shown. The person or organization named has not yet claimed or corrected it.
The record does not usually carry fictional characters, but Bond earned the page by showing up at load-bearing moments. The Z8 that Steve Jobs outbid Jonathan Hare for was Bond's car in The World Is Not Enough — sawn in half by a helicopter-borne bandsaw in the Caspian oil fields off Baku. The BP executive across the dinner table in September 2000, John Leggate, had run BP's actual Baku operation until the year before, and the mutual love of Bond — a fellow Scot, as Leggate and one late-arriving branch of Hare's family both were — is what turned an executive sponsor into a guide. From that same conversation came the Scottish Enlightenment thread: the philosophers who shaped the Declaration, the Constitution, and the patent laws this whole architecture rests on.
So the page exists as an index entry: where Bond appears, follow the links, because something real was happening nearby.
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Bond's car, sawn in half off Baku in the film; first seen near Trafalgar Square; lost at Sunnyvale BMW to the one buyer the story couldn't top
Open →the shared enthusiasm ofGroup CIO without an IT background: North Sea driller, president of the Baku operation, hilarious, and the best guide to BP a vendor ever had
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