Whoo, coolness. I have to admit, I haven't seen any movie with Felix Leiter's character and I've only read one Bond book, but it was In Her Majesty's Service and I understand that's about the most angsty one, so it worked out well. I really could see where you were getting Bond's characterization from, even if I didn't get all the references, and I liked Felix and Honey as (to me) essentially original characters. It was a lovely job of characterizing how people deal with trauma and self-preservation years after the fact, which is really difficult to get right.