Donovan "Red" Grant (Donald in the film) was an assassin working for the Soviet counter-intelligence agency SMERSH (SPECTRE in the film adaptation) an antagonist in Ian Fleming's novel 1957 From Russia, with Love and the main antagonist of its 1963 film adaptation. In Ian Fleming's novel Red Grant is depicted as a serial killer with a psychopathic nature and a bloodlust that extends beyond his professional duties. He is a high-ranking assassin working for SMERSH, but he also engages in the murder of young peasant girls, a "hobby" that his superiors are aware of and even enable by providing him with victims as rewards. The novel suggests that Grant's violent tendencies are deeply rooted in his psyche. In the movie adaptation, Red Grant is portrayed as a highly trained SPECTRE assassin, but the film does not delve into the same level of detail about his psychological profile or his propensity for gratuitous violence.