 Black does not consider Bond to be the unthinking wild beast Zhukov writes about , however . From Russia , with Love sees Bond watching Kerim Bey shoot the Bulgarian killer Krilencu and Bond observing that he had never killed anyone in cold blood . In " The Living Daylights " Bond deliberately misses his target , realising the sniper he has been sent to kill is a beautiful female cello player . Bond settles this in his mind by thinking that " It wasn 't exactly murder . Pretty near it , though . " Goldfinger opens with Bond thinking through the experience of killing a Mexican assassin days earlier . He is philosophical about it : 
