I was hoping someone might be able to recommend Victorian or Edwardian medievalist poetry. Anything in the general range from Chesterton's "Ballad of the White Horse" to Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" to Kipling's poetry about English history a la "Harp Song of the Dane Women" or "Norman and Saxon".
Supernatural elements are also fine, and indeed appreciated.
Just for fun, imagine that each of the henchmen had to solo their way through the Bond movies in Bond's place. So, for instance, Jaws being asked to recover the Solex from Francisco Scaramanga in Man With The Golden Gun instead of Bond. Or Xenia Onatopp being sent to Japan instead of Bond in You Only Live Twice, to figure out who was behind the space-jackings of Russian and American rockets.
You get the idea.
Out of all the hench-persons throughout the Bond franchise, who would be able to most often achieve the same mission successes that Bond did?
(I'd have to give my own answer some thought, but I'm initially leaning toward either Red Grant or Necros, who seem to be good at the spying and improvisation parts of the job, in addition to their combat skills.)