Chapter 23 - Passionate Leave Summary

The final chapter opens with Bond and Solitaire alone at a beach house. They are enjoying a drink and Bond tells her she is the most beautiful women in Shark Bay.

When Quarrel had brought them ashore Bond had cleaned Solitaire's body, which was covered in cuts from the coral. They then went to the hospital to have their wounds treated. Strangways had police search the Isle of Surprise to secure any remaining gold. The wreck of the Secatur is being guarded by Customs officials, there were no survivors from the explosion. Divers are on their way to search the wreck to recover the gold. Mr. Big's associates in Harlem and St. Petersburg are being rounded up by the police.

Bond has filed a claim for the gold as have several others, including M, on behalf of...