Basically, Edmond has a lengthy record and the tips that came in about him was that he had no regard for life. According to reports, he has family that's been helping him,

Supper won't be long.

He felt Bond should be hard and fatalistic, and make no attempt to endear himself to the audience, who should dislike him until they get to know him and appreciate he is their idea of an efficient agent.

They shouldn't have let him go. Now they have to find a guy they can patch up to a seven-year contract.

Memoirs of a Geisha.

The World Is Not Enough