Zora is one of the two gypsy girls in love with the same man. She and Vida engage in a memorable catfight with the winner taking his affections. Played by Martine Beswick.

The two are not seen again in the film.

Zero Minus Ten, published in 1997, was the first James Bond novel by Raymond Benson, picking up where Ian Fleming and John Gardner left off. It is set in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and some parts of Australia.

Benson’s approach to the character was more in keeping with the film version of 007 than the literary version of Fleming and Gardner. Continuity with the Gardner books was also, for the most part, not maintained. For example, Gardner had promoted Bond to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy in previous books, but Benson demoted him back to commander. Benson later stated in interviews that, as far as character continuity was concerned, he had been given free lease by his publishers to follow or ignore other continuation authors as he saw fit.

The book was first published in Britain by Hodder & Stoughton and in America by Putnam. Benson’s working title for the novel was No Tears for Hong Kong; this was eventually used as the title for the last chapter in the book.

Plot summary: The plot of Zero Minus Ten involves a wealthy British shipping magnate who, as a result of the exchange of Hong Kong from the British to the Chinese, loses his business, EurAsia Enterprises. Bond is first alerted to the case after a chain of events that culminate in a nuclear blast in the Australian outback. 007 is sent to Hong Kong to determine the cause of these events. He gains the trust of local triad leaders, who in turn inform him about a shady business man, Guy Thackeray — founder of EurAsia Enterprises. Through the sort of espionage that can only be performed by Bond, we learn that Guy Thackeray has obtained a nuclear bomb and plans to destroy Hong Kong. Bond determines the specifics of Thackeray’s scheme. He confronts Thackeray and then drowns him in Victoria Harbor after a brutal fight, then stopping the nuclear bomb.

Anthony Jared Zerbe (born May 20, 1936) is an American stage, film and television actor who played Milton Krest in Licence to Kill.

Zerbe studied at the Stella Adler Theater Studio in New York. He is the former artistic director of Reflections, A New Plays Festival. Zerbe also continues to perform in a project, Prelude to Lime Creek, with poet and lyricist Joe Henry.

From 1959 to 1961, Anthony Zerbe served in the United States Air Force. In 1976, Zerbe won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Performance By a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Harry O).

Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky is a fictional character in two of Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond films: GoldenEye and The World is Not Enough.

Biography: Zukovsky, played by Robbie Coltrane, is an ex-KGB agent turned Russian mafia head who runs a bar, a casino, and a caviar factory. When he was younger (and a KGB agent), a conflict with James Bond ended with Valentin being shot in the leg, as well as Bond stealing his car and “his girl”. Eventually, Valentin set up a meeting for Bond with Janus, in St Petersburg, Russia.

After leaving the KGB, Zukovsky initially held a grudge against James Bond , but this disappeared when dealing with Bond could make him a profit. He later made a fortune out of a beluga caviar factory. Bond figured a way to talk the information right out of Valentin: use Christmas Jones as a distraction. When Zukovsky saw Bond, he asked: “Can’t you just say hello, like a normal person”?

In The World Is Not Enough, his personal assistant and driver named Bullion debuts. Later, after Bullion was revealed to have worked with Elektra King, and set off a bomb in Valentin’s radio facility and former KGB safe house in Istanbul, Turkey (which he uses to try to contact his nephew Nikolai, whom is running a Victor 3 class submarine), Valentin shoots Bullion.

Zukovsky makes many appearances in the films, which before being shot and mortally wounded by Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough after Valentin tells Elektra King to give him the submarine key by saying “I’m looking for a submarine, it’s big, black, and the driver is a very good friend of mine! Bring it to me!”, but instead, she shoots Valentin through his nephew Nikolai’s hat. He lives long enough after being shot to execute a trick shot using a secret gun hidden within his own cane that allows James Bond to escape Elektra King’s trap.

There was a deleted scene in which Bond later checks Valentin’s pulse. Another scene cut out from the movie, is when Dr Warmflash takes Valentin in and finds out he was shot in the ribs, and she eventually gets the bullet out. It is unknown if he actually lived or died.

Rick Yune as Zao in ‘Die Another Day’.

Biography: He is originally an employee of Gustav Graves / Tan sun-Moon as the Colonel illegally deals in arms in the Demilitarised Zone of North Korea. Bond, posing as diamond smuggler van Beerg, infiltrates Moon’s base as part of an MI6 operation, hoping to exchange diamonds for arms and expose Moon. The case of diamonds is rigged with explosives and blows up, embedding several stones in Zao’s face (which Jinx later dubbed “expensive acne”). Moon is supposedly killed in the assault. Zao goes rogue, kills three Chinese agents, and is later found and arrested by the UN forces in Korea. Bond is held captive by Moon’s father, General Moon. Fourteen months later, MI6 receives intelligence that Bond may soon crack under the pressure and reveal vital information, so a trade is arranged – Zao for Bond.

Following Moon, Zao travels to Cuba, planning to receive gene therapy to alter his appearance. However, Bond finds the lab and halts the procedure before it is completed, leaving Zao’s features altered into the albino-esque profile seen above and to the right. Zao, though, escapes again.

Zao catches up with Moon, who, through a course of gene therapy, is now Sir Gustav Graves, in Iceland. Bond, however, has figured out Graves’ true identity. Ordered to kill Bond, Zao gets in his modified Jaguar XKR and chases Bond and his Aston Martin Vanquish across the ice plains. The chase leads back to the Ice Palace, where Zao loses control of his car and it plunges into the melting ice. Bond shoots down a chandelier which lands on Zao, impaling him.

The word “Zao” means “evil” (man) in Croatian or Serbian and some other Slavic languages. Despite the character being a North Korean, Zao’s name is not actually Korean, and there is actually no way to write his name in Korean, as the Korean language has no “z” sound.

Christopher Walken as Max Zorin in ‘A View to a Kill’.

Biography: Born in Dresden, and later moving to France, Zorin becomes a leading French businessman, operating in the microchip market. However, it is revealed later in the film that he is the product of Nazi medical experimentation during World War II, in which pregnant women were injected with massive quantities of steroids in an attempt to create “super-children.” Most of the pregnancies failed. The few surviving babies grew to become extraordinarily intelligent—but also psychopathic.

After the war, Dr Hans Glaub (alias Dr Carl Mortner), the German scientist who conducted the experiments, is spirited away by the Soviet Union, where he continues his experiments with steroids. It is strongly implied that the young Zorin was raised by Mortner, who is one of Zorin’s closest confidants in the movie, and explicitly stated that Zorin was trained by and long affiliated with the KGB. Among other activities, Mortner organises a doping programme for Zorin’s thoroughbred race horses.

Despite Zorin’s longtime KGB affiliation, his outside activities draw attention that the KGB sees as unwelcome, and at a meeting between Zorin and KGB head General Gogol, Gogol rebukes him. Zorin responds by telling Gogol that he no longer considers himself a KGB employee.

Zorin forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering an earthquake in the San Andreas Fault at high tide, causing the valley to flood. Zorin’s plan is foiled by Bond and Zorin’s former lover and henchman May Day, who joins Bond’s side after Zorin attempts to kill her and his men and sacrifices her life to ensure that the bomb set by Zorin could not trigger the quake. Zorin later is killed in a confrontation with Bond, when he falls into the waters of San Francisco Bay from one of the support cables of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Legal problems arose when producers became aware there was a pre-existing company named the Zoran Corporation which makes microchips. The corporation threatened to sue for defamation. Pre-production crew had neglected to do a trademark search prior to filming. The parties came to an agreement and, A View to a Kill is the first 007 film with a legal disclaimer inserted.

Nikki van der Zyl (also known as Monica van der Zyl) is a voice-actress most famous for providing the voice of Ursula Andress in the film Dr No (Diana Coupland, however, provided the singing voice of Ursula Andress). She also revoiced all the other female voices in that same film, except that of Miss Moneypenny (played by Lois Maxwell) and that of a Chinese girl. Van der Zyl also worked as a dialogue coach who assisted Gert Fröbe, whose English was limited, for the Bond film Goldfinger. Currently, she works as an artist, poet, and public speaker.