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"‘Poor Tori Wo. The brave little girl, fighting to get the scoop in a man’s world.’ Barron shook his head, tutted. ‘Could make a good movie, don’t you think?’"
― Shoot to Kill.[src]

Victoria "Tori" Wo was a fictional American investigative journalist who wrote for the Record in California, United States. The character served as an ally in Steve Cole's 2012 Young Bond novel, Shoot to Kill.

Biography[]

Victoria "Tori" Wo, was a journalist working in Hollywood, California who suspected tight mafia ties within Anton Kostler's company. After a street riot, she telephoned her editor to try and tie it to her existing theory about Kostler's involvement, and argued with him for so long that she had to ask a boy (James Bond), in the drugstore for a penny to continue the call. When he finally hung up on her, the boy, proved to be a help as he informed her that he had seen a car leave the riot with an Illinois licence plate, prompting Tori to give him her number in case he should see anything else.

The two met again later in Bond's hotel lobby, where she showed him a picture of Kostler's chief of security, whom Bond had seen torturing a man on film. He did not, however have the film reel, and Tori jokingly told him to swim back to "Limey Land" to get it. She informed him of her intention to spike her editor's lunch with laxatives to prevent him from attend a party at Kostler's that evening; enabling Tori could go herself. At the party, she stole a key ring from a guard and sneaked into an office to find a payroll of Kostler's employees.

Bond found her and told her that he had the film reel and told her of all of the trouble he went through to get it before they discovered that the room was bugged. They climbed the microphone cables down the building, and Tori was caught by two thugs. They brutalized her, but with Bond's help she was able to escape and get to safety in her office. When she got to her apartment, she was kidnapped by Kostler's men and taken to the old location of Kostler's Allworld Studios. She later found an associate of Bond's named Dan Sloaman, and his uncle Stuart, and the three found James and Boudicca Pryce, and they formulated a plan to escape. Tori and Daniel were separated from the group, and Stuart was shot by Kostler's thugs. Tori and Daniel escaped the building when Kostler called for his men to go after James. When Kostler was killed in an explosion, Tori was able to release the biggest crime expose article in the city's history.

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Trivia[]

  • Tori was originally slated to die during the novel's climactic battle; Cole, having doubts himself about killing off the character, was persuaded to keep her by the publisher.[1]

References[]

  1. --, Don (15th December 2018). 003 Interview Steve Cole (En-UK) (Podcast). The 00 Files. Soundcloud. Retrieved on 2020-12-08.
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