(i) Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander is shot in the head with a low caliber pistol, loses consciousness and is buried in a shallow grave of loose soil but wakes up and digs herself out. Maybe Larsson could have left her apparently dead between volumes?
(ii) At the end of From Russia, With Love, the reader thinks that James Bond is dead;
at the end of You Only Live Twice, the other characters think that he is dead;
near the end of his last novel, The Man With The Golden Gun, Bond is shot and loses consciousness...
(iii) Poul Anderson makes us think that Dominic Flandry is going to die near the end of A Stone In Heaven and that Hanno is going to die near the end of The Boat Of A Million Years. However, both are rescued.
Physical Damage
Salander is hospitalized once and Bond several times whereas Flandry does not suffer comparable injuries.
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