Mata uncovers a plan to sell compromising photographs of military leaders from the USA, USSR, China and Great Britain at an 'art auction', another scheme bankrupt SMERSH financier Le Chiffre hopes to use to raise money.
Bond travels to Asia and persuades Mata to travel to East Berlin to infiltrate International Mothers' Help, a school for spies that is a SMERSH cover operation. Mata Bond is the estranged daughter of legendary British spy Sir James Bond, born of his love affair with Mata Hari.
