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Motifs in the James Bond film series
The numbers 007, with a gun barrel and trigger attached to the 7 to make it resemble a handgun.
The current official logo of the James Bond (007) Eon series

Produced by
Albert R. Broccoli
Harry Saltzman
Michael G. Wilson
Barbara Broccoli
Kevin McClory
Written by
Ian Fleming
Music by
Monty Norman
John Barry
George Martin
David Arnold
Don Black
 Others
Production
   company
Eon Productions
Danjaq
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
United Artists
Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)
5 October 1962 – present (Eon series)
Country
United Kingdom
Budget
Total (22 Eon films):
 $1,123,000,000
Box office
Total (22 Eon films):
 $4,809,157,447
The James Bond series of films contain a number of repeating, distinctive motifs which date from the series' inception with Dr. No in 1962. The series consists of twenty three films produced by Eon Productions featuring the James Bond character, a fictional British Secret Service agent. The most recent instalment is the 2012 film Skyfall, which was released in UK cinemas on 26 October 2012. There have also been two independently made features, the satirical Casino Royale, released in 1967, and the 1983 film Never Say Never Again.
Whilst each element has not appeared in every Bond film, they are common threads that run through most of the films. These motifs vary from integral plot points, such as the assignment briefing sessions or the attempts to kill Bond, to enhancements of the dramatic narrative, such as music, or aspects of the visual style, such as the title sequences. These motifs may also serve to enhance excitement in the plot, through a chase sequence or for the climax of the film.[1] Some of these—such as "Bond girls" or megalomaniac villains—have been present in all of the stories, whilst others—such as Q's gadgets or the role of M—have changed over time, often to shape or follow the contemporary zeitgeist.[2] These elements are formulaic and the Bond films tend to follow a set pattern with only limited variety, often following within a strict order.[3] A number of the elements were altered or removed in 2006 with the reboot of the series, Casino Royale.[4]
Some of the elements involved are a result of the production crew used in the earliest films in the series, with the work of Ken Adam, the original production designer, Maurice Binder, title designer, and John Barry, composer, continually updated and adapted as the series progressed.



Contents  [hide]
1 Opening sequences 1.1 Gun barrel sequence
1.2 Pre-title sequence
1.3 Title sequence
2 Plot elements 2.1 Flirting with Moneypenny
2.2 Receiving assignment from M
2.3 Technical briefing with Q
2.4 Guns, cars and aircraft
2.5 Meeting allies 2.5.1 Felix Leiter
2.6 Chase scenes
3 International locations
4 Characters 4.1 Larger-than-life villains
4.2 Bond girls
5 Humour
6 Dénouement 6.1 Protracted attempt to kill Bond
6.2 Climax
6.3 Ending
7 Quotations
8 See also
9 References
10 Bibliography
11 External links

Opening sequences
Gun barrel sequence
Main article: Gun barrel sequence

The figure of silhouetted man points a gun straight at the camera.

 The gun barrel sequence
All of the Eon Bond films feature the unique gun barrel sequence, created by graphic artist Maurice Binder, which has been called by British media historian James Chapman "the trademark motif of the series".[5] As Bond walks across the screen, he is viewed by the audience through the barrel of a gun trained on him by an unknown assailant. Bond wheels around and shoots directly at the gun/viewer, followed by the assassin's blood spilling down the barrel/screen.[3] It was originally filmed in sepia by putting a pinhole camera inside an actual .38 calibre gun barrel, with stunt man Bob Simmons playing the part of Bond.[6][nb 1] This is accompanied by the opening bars of the "James Bond Theme", composed by Monty Norman, orchestrated by trumpeter and composer John Barry and Burt Rhodes.[7]
After Maurice Binder's death in 1991, Daniel Kleinman was responsible for the gun barrel sequence up to and including Casino Royale.[8] Design house MK12 supervised the graphics for Quantum of Solace.[9] Chapman has suggested that the sequence is a significant part of the James Bond mythos because it "foregrounds the motif of looking" that is central to the spy film genre.[10] The gun barrel imagery sometimes carried over to the film posters used to promote Bond films, including as a familiarising element on the introduction of Timothy Dalton for The Living Daylights.[11]
The sequence was traditionally placed at the start of each film until the 2006 instalment Casino Royale, where it appears after the cold open and is incorporated into the plot;[12] in the 2008 film, Quantum of Solace, the sequence was placed at the end of the film and incorporates the film's title in its design.[13]
Pre-title sequence
In the first film of the series, Dr. No, the gun barrel sequence is followed by the main titles, but starting with From Russia with Love[14] and in all subsequent films, the titles are preceded by a pre-title sequence or "teaser".[15] The contents of the sequence can relate to the main plot of the film in a number of ways, including being not at all related (as in Goldfinger),[16] loosely connected (as with The World Is Not Enough)[17] or fully related to the plot (as can be seen in Licence to Kill[18] and On Her Majesty's Secret Service).[19]
From Thunderball through to Die Another Day, the gun barrel sequence segues into the pre-title sequence by having the opening shot be sighted through the barrel.[20] Beginning with The Spy Who Loved Me, the teasers emphasised not only action sequences but stunts, a practice that prevailed until Casino Royale.[21] The sequence for The World Is Not Enough is unusually long: at over fourteen minutes it is two to three times the length of most others.[22]
Title sequence

A woman's body with "Starring Sean Connery" projected on it; women alongside a cocktail glass with the Union Jack in it with "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" written underneath; a woman's open eyes and red smoke, with "Live and Let Die" written over the image; and a diamond necklace with "Diamonds Are Forever" written over it

 James Bond title sequences feature striking images often of women in provocative situations.
The main title sequences incorporate visual elements that often reflect each film's theme, often showing silhouettes of nude or provocatively clad women set against swirling images.[23] For example, the 1965 film Thunderball features scenes of deep-sea diving and this is reflected in the associated opening sequence;[24] similarly the opening sequence for the 1964 film Goldfinger shows clips from Bond films projected onto the gold-painted silhouette of actress Margaret Nolan: the titles have been described by Bond scholars Smith and Lavington as "Gorgeous, iconic, seminal."[25]
The concept for the titles came from designer Robert Brownjohn, who worked on From Russia with Love and Goldfinger, before he fell out with producer Harry Saltzman and left the series.[26] In creating the titles, Brownjohn was inspired by seeing light projecting on people's bodies as they got up and left a cinema;[27] he was also influenced by constructivist artist László Moholy-Nagy projecting light on to clouds in the 1920s.[28] Brownjohn also used the effect in the poster he created for Goldfinger.[29] Designer Maurice Binder, who had worked on the first Bond film, Dr. No, had been unable to work on either From Russia with Love and Goldfinger, but returned for Thunderball, where he retained Brownjohn's concept for the titles.[30] Binder eventually worked on thirteen Bond films and after his death in 1991, the opening credits were done by Daniel Kleinman; this changed for Quantum of Solace, with the studio MK12 taking control.[31]
A contemporary artist usually sings during the title sequence and an instrumental version of the main track may also be featured as a leitmotif during the film, which repeats in various moods.[32] On Her Majesty's Secret Service has an entirely instrumental credit sequence, though the film features an alternate theme, "We Have All the Time in the World", sung by Louis Armstrong. John Barry provided the title song music on ten of the eleven films for which he composed the musical score.[33] Several of the songs produced for the films have been nominated for Academy Awards for Original Song and become pop hits, including Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die",[34] Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better"[35] (for the film The Spy Who Loved Me), Sheena Easton's "For Your Eyes Only"[36] and Adele's "Skyfall",[37] eventually winning the award.
Plot elements
Flirting with Moneypenny

Sean Connery and Roger Moore alongside Lois Maxwell, Pierce Brosnan with Samantha Bond and Timothy Dalton with Caroline Bliss; an office filled with paintings is behind Connery, Moore and Brosnan, while a lab is behind Dalton

 Lois Maxwell (twice), Samantha Bond and Caroline Bliss as Moneypenny
With the exception of the first two Daniel Craig films, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, every Bond film has a sequence in which Bond interacts with Miss Moneypenny, the personal assistant to M, Bond's superior.[4] Lois Maxwell was the first to portray Moneypenny and did so for fourteen Eon-produced Bond films from Dr. No in 1962 to A View to a Kill in 1985[38] opposite Connery, Lazenby, and Moore. She was followed by Caroline Bliss, Samantha Bond and Naomie Harris, who played opposite Dalton, Brosnan and Craig respectively.[39] The four have arguably divergent interpretations of Moneypenny's personality, as do the six actors who have played Bond.[40]
A running joke throughout the film series is Moneypenny's unrequited love for Bond and his playful flirting with her. She flirts back, jokes and sometimes pouts, hoping to wrangle a proposal and a wedding ring out of him.[41] A fantasy sequence in Die Another Day marks the only occasion in the Eon film series in which Moneypenny was actually shown in a romantic embrace with Bond, although this is only in Q-branch's virtual reality machine.[42]
Receiving assignment from M



 Judi Dench has played M seven times, the only woman in a role previously played by two men in the Eon films.
Early in most plots Bond is called in to see M, the head of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service (also known as MI6) in his or her office to receive his assignment.[43] In several films, Bond receives the assignment outside the MI6 offices, or at a local secret office. Upon meeting, Bond often finding M in a subdued state of agitation over a new threat to world peace. M typically shows confidence in the service's best agent but feels a need to rein in Bond for his risky methods and often chides him for his indiscretions.[44]
The first actor to portray M was Bernard Lee, who appeared in all eleven Bond films from Dr. No in 1962 to Moonraker in 1979.[45] With Lee's illness from stomach cancer in 1980–1981, he was unable to appear in his scenes for For Your Eyes Only; he died on 16 January 1981[46] and, out of respect, no new actor was hired to assume the role for the film. Instead, the script was re-written so that the character is said to be on leave, letting Chief of Staff Bill Tanner takes over the role as acting head of MI6 and briefing Bond alongside the Minister of Defence.[47]
Lee was replaced for four films between 1983 and 1989, by Robert Brown[48] who had previously appeared in the series as Admiral Hargreaves.[49] Judi Dench took over the role of M from 1995's GoldenEye until 2012's Skyfall. In Skyfall, Gareth Mallory, played by Ralph Fiennes, takes over as M at the end of the film after the death of Dench's character.
The code name for the British Secret Service in both the books and the films was "Universal Exports".[44] It has been featured repeatedly in the films in various ways, such as the abbreviation "UnivEx" in From Russia with Love,[50] a brass name plate in On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Bond's helicopter in For Your Eyes Only.[51] Academic Paul Stock argues that M's office—and Universal Exports by extension—is a metonym for England, whilst he sees M as being an iconic representative of England and Englishness.[52]
Technical briefing with Q



 Desmond Llewelyn played Q seventeen times, the only actor to play opposite five different Bonds
See also: List of James Bond gadgets
After getting his assignment, Bond is often sent to Q Branch for the technical briefing in which he receives special equipment to be used in his mission. The pre-mission briefings quickly became one of the motifs that ran through the Bond series.[53] Dr. No provided no spy-related gadgets, although a Geiger counter was used. Industrial designer Andy Davey observed that the first ever onscreen spy-gadget was the attaché case shown in From Russia with Love, which he described as "a classic 007 product".[54] The gadgets assumed a higher profile in the 1964 film Goldfinger and the film's success encouraged further espionage equipment from Q Branch to be supplied to Bond,[55] although the increased use of technology led to an accusation that Bond was over-reliant on equipment, particularly in the later films.[56]
Starting with From Russia with Love, the briefings with Q branch involve various gadgets and technology, although Boothroyd is not referred to in the credits as Q until the third film, Goldfinger.[57] Each Bond film thereafter up until Die Another Day contains a technical briefing of some kind, usually given by Q,[58] with the exception of Live and Let Die, in which Q does not appear[59] and On Her Majesty's Secret Service in which Q does not brief 007 but is demonstrating to M.[58]
Q is sometimes shown joining Bond in the field, taking with him a portable workshop and his staff. These workshops are established in unusual locations, such as an Egyptian tomb in The Spy Who Loved Me[60] and a South American monastery in Moonraker.[61] On two occasions, in Octopussy and Licence to Kill, Q takes active roles in Bond's missions.[62][63] With the 2006 Casino Royale reboot and the subsequent instalment, Quantum of Solace, the character of Q was, like Moneypenny, dropped, and although Bond still receives a supply of mission equipment, no technical briefing is shown on screen.[4][64]




If it hadn't been for Q Branch, you'd have been dead long ago!
Q, to Bond,
Licence to Kill
There are several running jokes throughout the series. Established in Goldfinger is Q's continuing disgust at how his equipment is often lost, damaged or destroyed by Bond during missions.[65] Another is how easily distracted Bond is in the lab ("Now pay attention") as Q rattles off details about the use of the equipment which Bond needs to commit to memory.[66] Another part of the customary byplay between Q and Bond is Bond's amused reaction to the latest devices and the Quartermaster's indignant response ("I never joke about my work").[67] There are also sight gags showing prototype equipment. In the field, however, Bond always remembers the details and takes full advantage of the tools supplied.[68]
Desmond Llewelyn played Q in seventeen Bond films, appearing in more Bond films than any other actor,[69] where he worked with the first five James Bond actors.[70] Llewelyn's first film was the second in the Eon series, From Russia with Love, after the actor who played the part in Dr. No, Peter Burton, was unavailable for the filming schedule.[71] (Burton's character was not yet called Q, but "the Armourer", Major Boothroyd, who instructed Bond on a new firearm, the Walther PPK.[72]) After appearing as Q's assistant in The World Is Not Enough, John Cleese appeared as Q in Pierce Brosnan's last film, Die Another Day.[73] For Daniel Craig's third film, Skyfall, the character was re-introduced, with Ben Whishaw playing the part.[74]
Guns, cars and aircraft
Main articles: List of James Bond firearms and List of James Bond vehicles



 The Walther PPK is the most famous of Bond's handgunsGuns
The first Bond film, Dr. No, saw M ordering Bond to leave his Beretta behind and take up the Walther PPK,[75] which the film Bond used in eighteen films.[76] Since Tomorrow Never Dies, Bond's main weapon has been the Walther P99 semi-automatic pistol.[76]

A silver vintage car

 The Aston Martin DB5.Cars
Bond has driven a number of cars, including the Aston Martin V8 Vantage[77] during the 1980s, the V12 Vanquish[77] and DBS[78] during the 2000s, as well as the Lotus Esprit;[79] the BMW Z3,[80] BMW 750iL[80] and the BMW Z8.[80] He has, however, also needed to drive a number of other vehicles, ranging from a Citroën 2CV to a Routemaster Bus, amongst others.[81]
Bond's most famous car is the silver grey Aston Martin DB5, first seen in Goldfinger;[82] it later featured in Thunderball, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, Casino Royale[83] and Skyfall. The films have used a number of different Aston Martins for filming and publicity, one of which was sold in January 2006 at an auction in the US for $2,090,000 to an unnamed European collector.[84]
Aircraft
Bond also shows his taste for aircraft: a gyrocopter—Little Nellie—features in You Only Live Twice,[85] a Cessna 185 Seaplane in Licence to Kill,[86] an Acrostar Jet in Octopussy[87] and the Space Shuttle in Moonraker.[88]
Meeting allies
Once in the field, Bond frequently meets up with a local ally upon arrival. These can be his foreign counterparts like Tiger Tanaka in Japan or CIA operatives like Felix Leiter, or his own staff in a secret location. Such characters can also be female, some of whom succumb to Bond's charms.[89] Often these allies will provide Bond either with information to complete his mission, or with additional gadgets from Q.[23] Some allies recur through a number of instalments, such as the Western-friendly KGB chief, General Gogol, Sir Frederick Gray, the Minister of Defence and René Mathis.[90][91]
Felix Leiter
One of Bond's closest allies in both the novels and films is CIA operative Felix Leiter. Fleming wrote twelve novels, of which Leiter appears in six;[92] in the second book, Live and Let Die, Leiter was attacked by a shark and lost his right arm and half his left leg and his subsequent appearances were with prosthetics. For the film series the shark attack occurred in Licence to Kill, the fifteenth instalment in the series.[93] Following Licence to Kill, Leiter did not appear until the reboot of the franchise with Casino Royale.[92]
In total Leiter appears in nine Eon Bond films: four out of the six Connery films, one film with Moore, both Dalton instalments and none with Brosnan (where Bond's CIA contact is Jack Wade), but returned for Craig's; he is also not in George Lazenby's sole Bond film. In the Eon series, there were no Leiter film appearances between 1973 and 1987 and no Leiter appearances between 1989 and 2006.[92]
Although other recurring characters in the Eon series, such as M, Q and Moneypenny, had continuity within the actors, the character of Leiter has not.[94] In the nine Eon films in which Leiter makes an appearance, there have been seven actors playing the role. Only two actors have played the part twice: David Hedison[95] and Jeffrey Wright.[96] Wright's first appearances also made him the first African-American actor to play the part in the Eon series, although Leiter was also played by Afro-American actor Bernie Casey in one of the non-Eon films, Never Say Never Again.
Chase scenes

Daniel Craig running a staircase upwards, Roger Moore on the staircase of Eiffel Tower, Sean Connery driving a car, and Timothy Dalton alongside Maryam d'Abo sliding down a snowy hill in a cello case

 Whether on foot or by car or on cello case, Bond is generally involved in a chase sequence.
Keeping with the greater Hollywood tradition, every Bond film features chase scenes, usually more than one per film.[97] Bond and his allies evade their pursuers in a wide variety of vehicles, including custom air and watercraft to trucks, and even tanks and moon-buggies.[39] Although most chase sequences feature Bond getting chased by the villains, such as the Aston-Martin DB5 in Goldfinger and the ski sequence in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, some feature Bond chasing the villains, such as the tank pursuit in GoldenEye and all sequences in Casino Royale.[98] As the Eon series has progressed, the chases have repeated themselves with some variations and have all increased in extravagance.[99]
Among the more unusual chase sequences include the gondola sequence from Moonraker, which leaves the canals of Venice to continue on land, and the cello case chase in The Living Daylights,[100] as well as a double-decker bus in Live and Let Die.[101]
International locations

World map, with countries visited by the James Bond film crew coloured both dark and light blue, countries in which the films are set but were not filmed actually there in purple, and other countries in grey

Countries James Bond has visited in the films.
Main article: List of James Bond film locations
Bond's adventures have taken him to over sixty countries, as well as outer space,[102] in locations mostly described as attractive and exotic.[103] These locations are primarily real places, though on occasion—such as San Monique (Live and Let Die) and Isthmus (Licence to Kill)—the destinations have been fictional.[104][105]
The locations used for filming have often altered because of the effects of Bond's presence: Scaramanga's hideout on Ko Tapu (Thai: เกาะตะปู) in The Man with the Golden Gun is often now referred to as James Bond Island both by locals and in tourist guidebooks.[106] Similarly, the revolving restaurant, located atop the Schilthorn near the village of Mürren used in On Her Majesty's Secret Service has retained the name Piz Gloria since filming took place there.[107]
Klaus Dodds has noted that there is a geopolitical aspect to the locations used, although this is often a pre-emption of an issue by the film. For example, in the first film, Dr. No, the title villain's disruption of the American Project Mercury space launch from Cape Canaveral with his atomic-powered radio beam mirrored claims that American rocket testing at Cape Canaveral had problems with rockets going astray.[108] Similarly Bond's anti-heroin mission in Live and Let Die coincided with President Nixon's 1972 declaration of a War on Drugs, whilst GoldenEye played against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.[108]
Characters
Larger-than-life villains
For the series of Bond novels, Fleming realised that without threatening villains Bond seemed less heroic: this tradition of strong literary villain was brought across to the screen in the Eon series.[109] The third Bond film, Goldfinger, set a pattern for having a main villain with a loyal and dangerous henchman,[110] a model which was followed in subsequent films.[111]
Whilst Bond scholar Glenn Yeffeth argues that there are only three Bond villains of note—Dr. No, Auric Goldfinger and Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[112] fellow scholar Kerstin Jütting has identified a path of development of villains, all of whom adapt to a contemporary zeitgeist:[113]
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (1963–1971)—Model megalomaniac facing 007 five times
Francisco Scaramanga (1974)—the first "freelance" villain
Aristotle Kristatos (1981)—the first false ally
Franz Sanchez (1989)—the first villain with the already fulfilled operation
Alec Trevelyan (1995)—the first MI6 villain
Elliot Carver (1997)—the modern megalomaniac
Elektra King (1999)—the first villainess
Many of Bond's adversaries are characterised by an unusual physical deformity; for example, Le Chiffre suffered haemolacria, causing his tear ducts to weep blood.[114] Not all of the villains have unusual physical traits; Mathieu Amalric's Dominic Greene was depicted without such characteristics, instead being inspired by Tony Blair and Nicolas Sarkozy.[115]
Many of the henchmen employed by the villains may have unique weapons; Oddjob, Auric Goldfinger's enforcer, carries a bowler hat with a razor-sharp blade concealed in the rim,[116] while Xenia Onatopp is known to crush victims to death with her thighs during intercourse.[117] In addition to these weapons, many of the henchmen are physically different; the over-large Tee Hee had an iron claw,[118] Jaws, an assassin with steel teeth, was played by 2.18m (7'2") actor Richard Kiel,[111] whilst Renard (the henchman to the main villainess Elektra) survived being shot in the head, which progressively killed off his senses and his ability to feel pain.[119]
Many of Bond's adversaries meet their deaths at the hands of Bond who often uses his environment or equipment to kill his opponent. Mr. Big was killed when Bond force-fed him a pellet of compressed gas, causing him to inflate and explode[120] whilst Hugo Drax was ejected into outer space.[121] Very few villains actually survive the course of Bond's assignment, and their deaths often come in the final scenes of the film.[122] Lindner has noted that a number of the villains or henchmen have met their deaths through Bond using the technology of the villains against themselves and these include Alec Trevelyan being speared by part of the communications dish, Elliot Carver impaled by his sea-drill and Renard skewered by a nuclear fuel rod.[123]
Bond girls
At some point on the mission, Bond meets the principal Bond girl, a character portraying Bond's love interest or one of his main sex objects.[124] There is always one Bond girl central to the plot, and often one or two others who cross his path, helpful or not. They may be victims rescued by Bond, or else ally agents, villainesses, or henchwomen. Many partner with Bond on the assignment, while others such as Honey Ryder are solely passive participants in the mission. More generally, the degree to which Bond girls are pivotal to propelling the plot forward varies from one film to the next. Five of the Bond girls are "bad" girls (or at least working for the villain) who turn "good" (or switch sides) usually due to Bond's influence.[125] Bond has fallen in love with only Tracy di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty's Secret Service[126] and Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, but both of them die at or near the end of the respective films.[127]
Roald Dahl, a screenwriter of You Only Live Twice, said he was given a formula to work to for the film: "you put in three girls ... Girl number one is pro-Bond. She stays around roughly through the first reel of the picture. Then she is bumped off by the enemy, preferably in Bond's arms."[128] The next girl is anti-Bond and normally captures him, but Bond will save himself by using his charm and sexual potency: she is normally killed mid-way through the film. Girl number three will survive and end the film in Bond's embrace.[129]
Academic Kimberly A. Neuendorf notes that James Bond promotes stereotypical, sex-typed male attitudes, especially when interacting with women and in doing so demonstrates Western society's patriarchal, individualistic culture.[130] Academic Tricia Jenkins, meanwhile, sees that Bond as "hyperheterosexual", as he is "more masculine, more sexually desirable, more heterosexual than the others around him".[55] Bond girls became a major theme in many Bond film posters, beginning with Dr. No;[131] the suggestiveness of the images used had to be toned down in some countries.[132]
Bond girls often have highly suggestive names, including Goldfinger's Pussy Galore, which the American censor refused to allow on promotional materials and for the US market she was subsequently referred to as "Miss Galore" or "Goldfinger's personal pilot";[55] however Honor Blackman took delight in embarrassing interviewers by repeatedly mentioning her character's name.[133] Other double entendre names included Holly Goodhead from Moonraker, Mary Goodnight and Chew Mee from The Man with the Golden Gun, Honey Ryder from Dr. No, Plenty O'Toole from Diamonds Are Forever, Xenia Onatopp from GoldenEye, and Christmas Jones from The World Is Not Enough.[134][135][136]
Humour
One of the elements used throughout the Bond series is humour, particularly 'one-liners', delivered by Bond, either when killing an enemy, or at the end of the film when with a woman.[126] The humour was present in the first film in the series, Dr. No, with Bond leaving a corpse in a car outside Government House and asking the Duty Sergeant to make sure he didn't get away,[137] whilst in Goldfinger, Bond electrocutes a man in a bath, before commenting, "Shocking, positively shocking".[138]
During Sean Connery's Bond films, the humour was delivered by Connery to soften a violent situation, such as the electrification, or his shooting a villain with a spear gun and saying "I think he got the point".[139] The humour changed towards innuendo and self-mockery during the Roger Moore films, with his jokes delivered with what media historian James Chapman considered to be a "wink at the audience",[139] with the suggestion that the violence was all a joke.[140] This was shown in Live and Let Die when he threw the villain, Tee Hee, out of a train, removing his prosthetic arm in the process, Moore commented that he was "Just being disarming, darling".[140] When Timothy Dalton took the role, the humour was downplayed, bringing the character more in line with that of the novels.[141] The humour returned for the Brosnan films, with Bond admitting between kisses that he "always enjoyed studying a new tongue".[142] Similarly, Moneypenny called Bond a "cunning linguist" after she interrupted his lesson with his Danish-language teacher.[143] Brosnan was not happy with some of the humour in the films, particularly the "stupid one-liners — which I loathed — and I always felt phony doing them".[144]
The films often include a one-liner, often of a sexual nature, at the dénouement.[126] At the close of The Spy Who Loved Me, Roger Moore's final line when caught with a woman, was that he was "Keeping the British end up, Sir!", something that Chapman considered to have "plumbed new depths of banality".[145] Similarly, Moonraker closes with a distracted Q answering M's question of "What's he doing?" with "I think he's attempting re-entry, sir"; a line described by Barnes and Hearn as "sheer magnificence".[146]
The films also contain elements of visual humour: when Jaws is dropped into a shark pool in The Spy Who Loved Me, it is Jaws who bites the shark.[147] The following film, Moonraker, sees Bond in a comic chase scene with a gondola that becomes a hovercraft, a continuation that Bond author Raymond Benson considered "so dumb that one wonders at what age group the film was really aimed."[148] The music and sound effects are also used for comic effect in the films: the laboratory of Hugo Drax is opened by touchtones that play the tune of Close Encounters of the Third Kind,[148] whilst when Bond and Anya are seen walking across the desert in The Spy Who Loved Me, the theme from Lawrence of Arabia is heard.[147]
Dénouement
Protracted attempt to kill Bond
In most of the films, the main villain often captures Bond and, rather than kill him quickly, attempts a slow and protracted death, from which Bond will always escape.[149] This will often also come with a scene of the villain explaining his master plan to Bond.[150] Goldfinger chained Bond to a nuclear bomb in the vault,[151] while Alec Trevelyan tied an unconscious Bond to a helicopter that was programmed to fire its own missiles at itself.[150] Francisco Scaramanga gave Bond lunch and then proposed a duel in his "fun room",[152] while Hugo Drax trapped Bond beneath the exhaust of a rocket to burn to death.[150] This convention within the Bond canon has been lampooned in spoof films, including the Austin Powers series.[153]
Climax
The climax of most Bond films is the final confrontation with the villain and his henchmen, sometimes an entire army of cohorts, often in his hard-to-reach lair.[149] The villain's retreat can be a private island (Dr. No,[154] The Man with the Golden Gun),[155] underwater (The Spy Who Loved Me),[156] mountaintop retreat (On Her Majesty's Secret Service,[157] For Your Eyes Only)[45] volcano (You Only Live Twice),[158] or underground base (Live and Let Die),[159] a ship (Thunderball,[160] Tomorrow Never Dies),[161] an oil rig (Diamonds Are Forever)[162] or even a space station (Moonraker)[163]—among other variations. Bond usually sabotages the lair and, with time ticking down, dispatches the supervillain, rescues the principal Bond girl and they escape as the place blows up.[164] In some cases, the villain or his primary henchman escapes to launch a final attack on Bond and his lover in the final scene.[165]
Ending
In the first twenty two films of the Eon Bond series, only On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Casino Royale, have ended with the central Bond girl deceased. In all other films, except Quantum of Solace, Bond is kissing her, making love, or implying that he will do so.[165] Sometimes an embarrassed M catches Bond during his embraces. Most endings feature a double entendre and, in many of the films, the Bond girl purrs, "Oh, James."[166]
Until Octopussy, the title of the next film to be produced was also usually named, in the format "James Bond will return..." or "James Bond will be back", although these were sometimes incorrect: The Spy Who Loved Me promised James Bond would return in For Your Eyes Only, but after the success of Star Wars, the producers decided to make Moonraker instead and For Your Eyes Only followed in 1981.[167]
Quotations



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 A seminal moment in cinema. Sean Connery introduces Bond to the cinematic world with "Bond, James Bond."
The first Bond film, Dr. No, included the introduction of the character of James Bond. Bond was introduced towards, but not at, the beginning of the film in a "now-famous nightclub sequence featuring Sylvia Trench",[168] to whom he makes his "immortal introduction".[169] It was Sean Connery's second line in the film.[nb 2]




"Bond, James Bond"
Bond to numerous people
 First heard in Dr. No[170]
Following the release of Dr. No, the quote "Bond ... James Bond", became a catch phrase that entered the lexicon of Western popular culture: writers Cork and Scivally said of the introduction in Dr. No that the "signature introduction would become the most famous and loved film line ever".[170] In 2001 it was voted as the "best-loved one-liner in cinema" by British cinema goers.[171] On 21 June 2005, the line was honoured as the 22nd historically greatest cinema quotation by the American Film Institute, in its 100 Years Series.[172]
Not all the films contain the introduction, Quantum of Solace, for example[173] and in others it is often mocked by others—in Thunderball, the villainous character Fiona Volpe mocks him by saying it to him[174] while with Mr. Big in Live and Let Die interrupts Bond's introduction with: "Names is for tombstones, baby...waste him!"[175]
Bond usually evinces a preference for vodka martinis and his instruction on how it must be prepared quickly became another catchphrase.




"Shaken, not stirred"
Bond to numerous barmen
 First heard in Goldfinger[176]
The instruction "Shaken, not stirred" was honoured by the AFI as the 90th most-memorable cinema quotation.[172] In order to distance his version of Bond from Sean Connery's, Roger Moore did not order a martini.[177] The martini was present in the first Ian Fleming novel, Casino Royale, where Bond eventually named it "The Vesper", after Vesper Lynd. The same recipe was then used for the 2006 film of the novel, with the martini ordered by Daniel Craig's Bond.[178]
See also

Portal icon James Bond portal
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References
Notes
1.Jump up ^ As stuntman Bob Simmons played Bond for the first gun barrel sequence, which occurred before the film had started, he is technically the first cinematic Bond.
2.Jump up ^ It is a misconception that this is Bond's introductory line, when in fact he has the following exchange with Sylvia Trench over a game of Chemin de Fer:
James Bond: I admire your courage, Miss...?
Sylvia Trench: Trench. Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck, Mr...?
James Bond: Bond. James Bond.
Footnotes
1.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 26-28.
2.Jump up ^ Sutton, Mike. "James Bond". Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Jütting 2007, p. 26.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c Danny Graydon (9 June 2007). "Daniel Craig boosts Bond franchise. Actor invigorates long-running action film series". Variety. Retrieved 9 January 2008.
5.Jump up ^ Chapman 2009, p. 63.
6.Jump up ^ Inside Dr. No Documentary (DVD). Dr. No (Ultimate Edition, 2006): Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 1999.
7.Jump up ^ Barnes & Hearn 2001, p. 17.
8.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 307.
9.Jump up ^ Desowitz, Bill (16 January 2009). "MK12 Has a Blast with Quantum Main Titles". AWN.com. Animation World Network. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
10.Jump up ^ Chapman 2009, p. 61.
11.Jump up ^ Nourmand 2002, p. 114,163,202–203.
12.Jump up ^ Inceer, Melis (30 May 2007). "An Analysis of the Opening Credit Sequence in Film". CUREJ: College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal. University of Pennsylvania. p. 34. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
13.Jump up ^ Caro, Mark (9 November 2008). "15 James Bond facts you need to know". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
14.Jump up ^ Barnes & Hearn 2001, p. 25.
15.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 119.
16.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 89.
17.Jump up ^ Smith & Lavington 2002, p. 268.
18.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 325.
19.Jump up ^ Smith & Lavington 2002, p. 90.
20.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 318.
21.Jump up ^ Chapman 2009, p. 250.
22.Jump up ^ Chapman 2009, p. 152.
23.^ Jump up to: a b Jütting 2007, p. 27.
24.Jump up ^ Smith & Lavington 2002, p. 97.
25.Jump up ^ Smith & Lavington 2002, p. 39.
26.Jump up ^ King & Fletcher 2005, p. 66-68.
27.Jump up ^ Osmond, Andrew; Morrison, Richard (August 2008). "Title Recall". Empire. p. 84.
28.Jump up ^ "Robert Brownjohn Graphic Designer (1925–1970)". Design Museum. 2006. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
29.Jump up ^ Nourmand 2002, p. 33.
30.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 13.
31.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 32.
32.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 28.
33.Jump up ^ Barber & Barber 1999, p. 240-242.
34.Jump up ^ "The 46th Academy Awards (1974) Nominees and Winners". Oscar Legacy. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
35.Jump up ^ "The 50th Academy Awards (1978) Nominees and Winners". Oscar Legacy. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
36.Jump up ^ "The 54th Academy Awards (1982)". Oscar Legacy. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
37.Jump up ^ "The 85th Academy Awards (2013)". Oscar Legacy. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
38.Jump up ^ Rubin 2003, p. 281.
39.^ Jump up to: a b Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 158-159.
40.Jump up ^ Lindner 2009, p. 202-214.
41.Jump up ^ Rubin 2003, p. 281-282.
42.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 159.
43.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 262.
44.^ Jump up to: a b Lipp 2006, p. 263.
45.^ Jump up to: a b Barnes & Hearn 2001, p. 138.
46.Jump up ^ "Obituary: Mr Bernard Lee". The Times. 19 January 1981. p. 12.
47.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 98.
48.Jump up ^ Rubin 2003, p. 59.
49.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 82.
50.Jump up ^ Rubin 2003, p. 430.
51.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 227.
52.Jump up ^ Stock 2009, p. 251.
53.Jump up ^ Lindner 2009, p. 112.
54.Jump up ^ Davey, Andy (3 October 2002). "Left to his own devices". Design Week.
55.^ Jump up to: a b c Jenkins, Tricia (September 2005). "James Bond's "Pussy" and Anglo-American Cold War Sexuality". The Journal of American Culture 28 (3). doi:10.1111/j.1542-734X.2005.00215.x.
56.Jump up ^ Lindner 2009, p. 169.
57.Jump up ^ Smith & Lavington 2002, p. 15.
58.^ Jump up to: a b Lipp 2006, p. 186.
59.Jump up ^ Rubin 2003, p. 45.
60.Jump up ^ Smith & Lavington 2002, p. 145.
61.Jump up ^ Smith & Lavington 2002, p. 157.
62.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 163.
63.Jump up ^ Rubin 2003, p. 46.
64.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 453.
65.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 99.
66.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 169.
67.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 101.
68.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 151.
69.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 29.
70.Jump up ^ Barker, Dennis (20 December 1999). "Desmond Llewelyn". The Guardian.
71.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 83.
72.Jump up ^ Smith & Lavington 2002, p. 11.
73.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 21.
74.Jump up ^ "Ben Whishaw cast as Q in new James Bond film Skyfall". BBC News Online. 25 November. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
75.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 94.
76.^ Jump up to: a b Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 265.
77.^ Jump up to: a b Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 183.
78.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 182.
79.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 202.
80.^ Jump up to: a b c Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 186.
81.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 175.
82.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 180.
83.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 180-181.
84.Jump up ^ "James Bond car sold for over £1m". BBC News Online. 21 January 2006. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
85.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 200-201.
86.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 189.
87.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 176.
88.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 205.
89.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 37.
90.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 144-145.
91.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 156.
92.^ Jump up to: a b c Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 152.
93.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 153.
94.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 108.
95.Jump up ^ Barnes & Hearn 2001, p. 178.
96.Jump up ^ Caro, David (16 November 2008). "Film Wright for role". Sunday Mail. p. 94.
97.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 167.
98.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 167-168.
99.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 130.
100.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 168.
101.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 43.
102.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 298-99.
103.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 297.
104.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 134.
105.Jump up ^ Smith & Lavington 2002, p. 235.
106.Jump up ^ Exotic Locations (NTSC, Widescreen, Closed-captioned) (DVD). The Man with the Golden Gun Ultimate Edition, Disc 2: MGM/UA Home Video. 2000.
107.Jump up ^ Reynolds 2005, p. 16.
108.^ Jump up to: a b Dodds, Klaus (2005). "Screening Geopolitics: James Bond and the Early Cold War films (1962–1967)". Geopolitics 10 (2): 266–289. doi:10.1080/14650040590946584.
109.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 30.
110.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 19.
111.^ Jump up to: a b Jütting 2007, p. 83.
112.Jump up ^ Yeffeth 2006, p. 94.
113.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 70-81.
114.Jump up ^ Nikkhah, Roya (24 May 2008). "Sebastian Faulks' James Bond apes Ian Fleming's creation". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
115.Jump up ^ 24 January 2008. "New Bond film title is confirmed". BBC News Online. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
116.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 117.
117.Jump up ^ Yeffeth 2006, p. 146.
118.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 84.
119.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 84.
120.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 63.
121.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 51.
122.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 36.
123.Jump up ^ Lindner 2009, p. 176.
124.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 34.
125.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 39.
126.^ Jump up to: a b c Jütting 2007, p. 30.
127.Jump up ^ Smith & Lavington 2002, p. 192-193.
128.Jump up ^ Watson, Nigel. "Bond Age Man". Talking Pictures. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
129.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 53.
130.Jump up ^ Neuendorf, Kimberly A.; Thomas D. Gore, Amy Dalessandro, Patricie Janstova & Sharon Snyder-Suhy (June 2010). "Shaken and Stirred: A Content Analysis of Women's Portrayals in James Bond Films". Sex Roles 62 (11-12): 747–761 [759]. doi:10.1007/s11199-009-9644-2. 
131.Jump up ^ Nourmand 2002, p. 9,11.
132.Jump up ^ Nourmand 2002, p. 9,34.
133.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 43.
134.Jump up ^ Comentale, Watt & Willman 2005, p. 134.
135.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 59.
136.Jump up ^ Leach 2009, p. 308.
137.Jump up ^ Smith & Lavington 2002, p. 17.
138.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 18.
139.^ Jump up to: a b Chapman 2009, p. 124.
140.^ Jump up to: a b Chapman 2009, p. 125.
141.Jump up ^ Chapman 2009, p. 198.
142.Jump up ^ "007 versus Rupert Murdoch". Film Review (Visual Imagination) (Special, Issues 22-25). 1998.
143.Jump up ^ Smith & Lavington 2002, p. 261.
144.Jump up ^ Rich, Joshua (19 August 2005). "Gentlemen Don't Prefer Bonds". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
145.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 137.
146.Jump up ^ Barnes & Hearn 2001, p. 133.
147.^ Jump up to: a b Benson 1988, p. 218.
148.^ Jump up to: a b Benson 1988, p. 224.
149.^ Jump up to: a b Jütting 2007, p. 28.
150.^ Jump up to: a b c Yeffeth 2006, p. 140.
151.Jump up ^ Jütting 2007, p. 118.
152.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 99.
153.Jump up ^ Gleiberman, Owen (9 May 1997). "A wild and crazy spy". Entertainment Weekly (378): 56. ISSN 1049-0434.
154.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 80.
155.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 103.
156.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 107.
157.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 69.
158.Jump up ^ Comentale, Watt & Willman 2005, p. 230.
159.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 92.
160.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 122.
161.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 187.
162.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 97.
163.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 139.
164.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 183.
165.^ Jump up to: a b Lipp 2006, p. 282.
166.Jump up ^ Lipp 2006, p. 283.
167.Jump up ^ For Your Eyes Only Special Edition, Region 2 (DVD). MGM. 1981.
168.Jump up ^ Barnes & Hearn 2001, p. 11.
169.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 15.
170.^ Jump up to: a b Cork & Scivally 2002, p. 6.
171.Jump up ^ "James Bond tops motto poll". BBC News Online. 11 June 2001. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
172.^ Jump up to: a b "100 Years Series: "Movie Quotes"". AFI 100 Years... series. American Film Institute. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
173.Jump up ^ Barber, Nicholas; Johnson, Andrew (21 September 2008). "We've been expecting you, Mr ... er ...?; The new Bond blockbuster 'Quantum of Solace' drops the catchphrases to return to the spirit of Ian Fleming's books". The Independent on Sunday. p. 18.
174.Jump up ^ Lindner 2009, p. 290.
175.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 288.
176.Jump up ^ Rubin 2003, p. 396.
177.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 139.
178.Jump up ^ Chapman 2009, p. 245.
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 The current official logo of the James Bond (007) Eon series
James Bond is a fictional character created by novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. Bond is a British secret agent working for MI6 who also answers by his codename, 007. He has been portrayed on film by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, in twenty-five productions. Only two films were not made by Eon Productions. Eon now holds the full adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels.[1][2]
In 1961 producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman joined forces to purchase the filming rights to Fleming's novels.[3] They founded the production company Eon Productions and, with financial backing by United Artists, began working on Dr. No, which was directed by Terence Young and featured Connery as Bond.[4] Following Dr. No's release in 1962, Broccoli and Saltzman created the holding company Danjaq to insure future productions in the James Bond film series.[5] The series currently encompasses twenty-three films, with the most recent, Skyfall, released in October 2012. With a combined gross of over $6 billion to date, the films produced by Eon constitute the third-highest-grossing film series, behind the Harry Potter and Marvel Cinematic Universe films.[6] (Accounting for the effects of inflation the Bond films have amassed $13.8 billion in July 2013 prices.[7]) The films have won four Academy Awards: for Sound Effects (now Sound Editing) in Goldfinger (at the 37th Awards), to John Stears for Visual Effects in Thunderball (at the 38th Awards), to Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers for Sound Editing in Skyfall (at the 85th Awards), and to Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth for Original Song in Skyfall (at the 85th Awards). Additionally, several of the songs produced for the films have been nominated for Academy Awards for Original Song, including Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die", Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" and Sheena Easton's "For Your Eyes Only". In 1982, Albert R. Broccoli received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.[8]
When Broccoli and Saltzman bought the rights to existing and future Fleming titles, it did not include Casino Royale, which had already been sold to producer Gregory Ratoff, with the story having been adapted for television in 1954. After Ratoff's death, the rights were passed on to Charles K. Feldman,[9] who subsequently produced the satirical Bond spoof Casino Royale in 1967.[10] A legal case ensured that the film rights to the novel Thunderball were held by Kevin McClory as he, Fleming and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham had written a film script upon which the novel was based.[1] Although Eon Productions and McClory joined forces to produce Thunderball, McClory still retained the rights to the story and adapted Thunderball into 1983's Never Say Never Again.[11] The current distribution rights to both of those films are held by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio who distributes Eon's regular series.[12][13]



Contents  [hide]
1 Series of films by Eon Productions 1.1 Plots

































1.2 Box office
1.3 Critical reception and accolades
2 Non-Eon films 2.1 Plots

2.2 Box office and critical reception
3 See also
4 References
5 Bibliography
Series of films by Eon Productions[edit]
Plots[edit]
Dr. No (1962)[edit]
Main article: Dr. No (film)
John Strangways, the British Intelligence (SIS) Station Chief in Jamaica, is killed. In response, British agent James Bond—also known as 007—is sent to Jamaica to investigate the circumstances. During his investigation Bond meets Quarrel, a Cayman fisherman, who had been working with Strangways around the nearby islands to collect mineral samples. One of the islands was Crab Key, home to the reclusive Dr. No.
Bond visits the island, where he meets a local shell diver, Honey Ryder. The three are attacked by No's men, who kill Quarrel using a flame-throwing armoured tractor; Bond and Honey are taken prisoner. Dr. No informs them he is a member of SPECTRE, the SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion, and he plans to disrupt the Project Mercury space launch from Cape Canaveral with his atomic-powered radio beam. Bond and Honey escape from the island, killing No and blowing up his lair in the process.
From Russia with Love (1963)[edit]
Main article: From Russia with Love (film)
SPECTRE's expert planner Kronsteen devises a plot to steal a Lektor cryptographic device from the Soviets and sell it back to them while exacting revenge on Bond for killing their agent Dr. No; ex-SMERSH operative Rosa Klebb is in charge of the mission. She recruits Donald "Red" Grant as an assassin and Tatiana Romanova, a cipher clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul, as the unwitting bait.
Bond travels to Turkey and meets with Ali Kerim Bey, the MI6 officer in Turkey. Between them, they obtain the Lektor, and the three escape with the device on the Orient Express. However, they are followed by Grant, who kills Kerim Bey and a Soviet security officer. Grant pretends to be another British agent and meets Bond. Over dinner Grant drugs Romanova, then overcomes Bond. Bond tricks Grant into opening Bond's attaché case in the manner that detonates its tear gas booby trap, allowing Bond to attack and kill him. Bond and Romanova escape with the Lektor to Venice. Rosa Klebb, disguised as a hotel maid, attempts to steal the Lektor and kill Bond, but ends up being shot by Romanova.
Goldfinger (1964)[edit]
Main article: Goldfinger (film)
Bond is ordered to observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger: he sees Goldfinger cheating at cards and stops him by distracting his employee, who is subsequently killed by Goldfinger's Korean manservant Oddjob. Bond is then instructed to investigate Goldfinger's gold smuggling and he follows the dealer to Switzerland. Bond is captured when he reconnoitres Goldfinger's plant and is drugged; he is taken to Goldfinger's Kentucky stud farm and is imprisoned. He escapes briefly to witness Goldfinger's meeting with U.S. mafiosi, who have brought the materials he needs for an operation to rob Fort Knox.
Bond is recaptured after hearing the details of the operation, but he subsequently seduces Pussy Galore, Goldfinger's private pilot and convinces her to inform the American authorities. Goldfinger's private army break into Fort Knox and access the vault, where Bond fights and kills Oddjob, while American troops battle with Goldfinger's army outside. Bond's plane is hijacked by Goldfinger, but Bond struggles with him, and shoots out a window, creating an explosive decompression, killing Goldfinger.
Thunderball (1965)[edit]
Main article: Thunderball (film)
Bond investigates the hijacking of an Avro Vulcan loaded with two atomic bombs, which had been taken by SPECTRE. The organisation demands a ransom for the return of the bombs. Bond follows a lead to the Bahamas, where he meets up with his CIA counterpart and friend Felix Leiter. The pair suspect a rich playboy, Emilio Largo, and search the area around his yacht and then the area where they think the yacht may have travelled. After finding the plane—but without the nuclear devices on board—the two agents arrange for Largo's yacht to be tracked and ambushed once the bombs are being moved by Largo.
You Only Live Twice (1967)[edit]
Main article: You Only Live Twice (film)
007 is sent to Japan to investigate the hijacking of an American spacecraft by an unidentified spacecraft. Upon his arrival, Bond is contacted by Aki, assistant to the Japanese secret service leader Tiger Tanaka. Bond established that the mastermind behind the hijacking is Ernst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE and follows the trail to Blofeld's island headquarters.
Tanaka's ninja troops attack the island, while Bond manages to distract Blofeld and create a diversion which allows him to open the hatch, letting in the ninjas. During the battle, Osato is killed by Blofeld, who activates the base's self-destruct system and escapes. Bond, Kissy, Tanaka, and the surviving ninjas escape through the cave tunnel before it explodes, and are rescued by submarine.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)[edit]
Main article: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
While searching for Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE, Bond saves Tracy di Vicenzo on the beach from committing suicide by drowning, and later meets her again in a casino. Bond then receives information from Marc-Ange Draco, the head of the European crime syndicate Unione Corse and Tracy's father, about Blofeld's Swiss solicitor. Bond breaks into the solicitors office and establishes Blofeld is corresponding with the London College of Arms. Posing as an emissary of the college, Bond meets Blofeld, who has established a clinical allergy-research institute atop Piz Gloria in the Swiss Alps. Bond soon establishes that Blofeld is brainwashing his patients to distribute bacteriological warfare agents throughout various parts of the world.
Bond escapes from the clinic after Blofeld identifies him as the British agent. Bond arranges a raid on the clinic using men from Draco's organisation. The raid is a success, although Blofeld escapes. Bond marries Tracy, but she is murdered shortly afterwards by Irma Bunt, Blofeld's partner.
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)[edit]
Main article: Diamonds Are Forever (film)
Bond is tasked with investigating a major diamond smuggling ring which begins in Africa and runs through Holland and the UK to the United States. Disguised as professional smuggler and murderer Peter Franks, Bond travels to Amsterdam to meet contact Tiffany Case: he is given the diamonds and travels on to the U.S., where he is met by Felix Leiter. Bond moves through the chain, which leads to the Whyte House, a casino-hotel owned by the reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte.
Bond follows the diamonds to a pick-up by Bert Saxby, Whyte's head of security, and then onto a research laboratory owned by Whyte, where he finds that a satellite is being built by a laser refraction specialist, Professor Dr. Metz. Suspecting Whyte, Bond tries to confront him, but instead meets Blofeld, who captures the agent and explains to him that the satellite can blow up nuclear missiles. Blofeld admits that he intends to auction it to the highest bidder. Bond escapes and frees the captive Whyte and they establish that Blofeld is using an offshore oil rig as his base. Bond attacks the rig, stopping Blofeld's operation and dispersing his organisation.
Live and Let Die (1973)[edit]
Main article: Live and Let Die (film)
James Bond is sent to investigate the murder of three British MI6 agents, all of whom have been killed within 24 hours. He discovers the victims were all separately investigating the operations of Dr. Kananga, the dictator of a small Caribbean island, San Monique. He also establishes that Kananga also acts as Mr. Big, a ruthless and cunning gangster.
Upon visiting San Monique, Bond determines that Kananga is producing two tons of heroin and is protecting the poppy fields by exploiting locals' fear of voodoo and the occult. Through his alter ego, Mr. Big, Kananga plans to distribute the heroin free of charge at his Fillet of Soul restaurants, which will increase the number of addicts. Bond is captured by Kananga, but he escapes, killing Kananga and destroying the poppy crop.
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)[edit]
Main article: The Man with the Golden Gun (film)
After receiving a golden bullet with James Bond's code "007" etched into its surface M relieves Bond of a mission locating a British scientist, Gibson, who has invented the "Solex agitator", a device to harness solar power, thereby solving the energy crisis. The bullet signifies Bond is a target of assassin Francisco Scaramanga and Bond sets out unofficially to find him. From a spent golden bullet, Bond tracks Scaramanga to Macau, where he sees Scaramanga's mistress collecting golden bullets at a casino. Bond follows her to Hong Kong, where he witnesses the murder of Gibson and the theft of the Solex agitator. Bond is subsequently assigned to retrieve the agitator and assassinate Scaramanga.
Bond meets with Hai Fat, a wealthy Thai entrepreneur suspected of arranging Gibson's murder, and is captured, but subsequently escapes. He tracks Scaramanga to an island in Red Chinese waters, where the two men fight a duel: Bond kills the assassin.
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)[edit]
Main article: The Spy Who Loved Me (film)
Bond is tasked with investigating the disappearance of British and Soviet ballistic missile submarines and the subsequent offer to sell a submarine tracking system. Bond works alongside Major Anya Amasova of the KGB. The pair track the plans across Egypt and identify the person responsible for the thefts as shipping tycoon, scientist and anarchist Karl Stromberg.
Bond and Amasova follow a suspicious tanker owned by Stromberg and establish it is responsible for the missing submarines; the submarine in which they are travelling is also captured by Stromberg. Stromberg plans to destroy Moscow and New York, triggering nuclear war: he planned to then establish a new civilisation. Bond escapes, freeing the submariners captured from the other submarines and follows Stromberg to his headquarters, where he shoots the tycoon and a torpedo destroys the base.
Moonraker (1979)[edit]
Main article: Moonraker (film)
A Drax Industries Moonraker space shuttle on loan is hijacked and Bond is ordered to investigate. Bond meets the owner of the company, Hugo Drax and one of Drax's scientists, Dr. Holly Goodhead. Bond follows the trail to Venice, where he establishes that Drax is manufacturing a nerve gas deadly to humans, but harmless to animals. Bond again meets Goodhead and finds out that she is a CIA agent.
Bond travels to the Amazon looking for Drax's research facility, where he is captured. He and Goodhead pose as pilots on one of six space shuttles being sent by Drax to a hidden space station. There Bond finds out that Drax plans to destroy all human life by launching fifty globes containing the toxin into the Earth's atmosphere. Bond and Goodhead disable the radar jammer hiding the station from Earth and the U.S. sends a platoon of Marines in a military space shuttle. During the battle, Bond kills Drax and his station is destroyed.
For Your Eyes Only (1981)[edit]
Main article: For Your Eyes Only (film)
After a British spy boat sinks, a marine archaeologist, Sir Timothy Havelock, is tasked to retrieve its Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC) communication system before the Russians do. After Havelock is murdered by Gonzales, a Cuban hit-man, Bond is ordered to find out who hired Gonzales. While investigating, Bond is captured, but Gonzales is subsequently killed by Havelock's daughter and she and Bond escape. Bond identifies one of those present with Gonzales as Emile Leopold Locque and so follows a lead to Italy and meets his contact, Luigi Ferrara, and a well-connected Greek businessman and intelligence informant, Aris Kristatos. Kristatos tells Bond that Locque is employed by Milos Columbo, Kristatos' former organised crime partner.
After Ferrara is murdered—and the evidence points to Columbo—Bond is captured by men working for Columbo. Columbo then explains that Locque was actually hired by Kristatos, who is working for the KGB to retrieve the ATAC. Bond and Melina recover the ATAC but are captured by Kristatos. They escape and follow Kristatos to Greece, where he is killed and the ATAC is destroyed by Bond.
Octopussy (1983)[edit]
Main article: Octopussy
Bond investigates the murder of 009, killed in East Berlin while dressed as a circus clown and carrying a fake Fabergé egg. An identical egg appears at auction and Bond establishes the buyer, exiled Afghan prince, Kamal Khan is working with Orlov, a renegade Soviet general, who is seeking to expand Soviet borders into Europe. Bond meets Octopussy, a wealthy woman who leads the Octopus cult. Bond finds out that Orlov has been supplying Khan with priceless Soviet treasures, replacing them with replicas, while Khan has been smuggling the real versions into the West, via Octopussy's circus troupe.
Bond infiltrates the circus, and finds that Orlov replaced the Soviet treasures with a nuclear warhead, primed to explode at a U.S. Air Force base in West Germany. The explosion would trigger Europe into seeking disarmament, in the belief that the bomb was an American one that was detonated by accident, leaving the West's borders open to Soviet invasion. Bond deactivates the warhead and then he returns to India, leading an assault on Khan's palace.
A View to a Kill (1985)[edit]
Main article: A View to a Kill
Bond investigates millionaire industrialist Max Zorin, who is trying to corner the world market in microchips. He establishes that Zorin was previously trained and financed by the KGB, but has now gone rogue. Zorin unveils to a group of investors his plan to destroy Silicon Valley which will give him a monopoly in the manufacturing of microchips.
Bond uncovers Zorin's plan is to detonate explosives beneath the lakes along the Hayward and San Andreas faults, which will cause them to flood. A larger bomb is also on site in the mine to destroy a "geological lock" that prevents the two faults from moving at the same time. Bond destroys the bomb, and subsequently kills Zorin.
The Living Daylights (1987)[edit]
Main article: The Living Daylights
Bond aids the defection of KGB officer General Georgi Koskov, by wounding a female KGB sniper, Kara Milovy, a cellist. During his debriefing Koskov alleges KGB's old policy of Smert Spionam, meaning Death to Spies, has been revived by General Leonid Pushkin, the new head of the KGB. Koskov is subsequently abducted from the safe-house and Bond is ordered to kill Pushkin.
Bond tracks down Milovy and establishes she is Koskov's girlfriend and that the defection was staged. He subsequently finds out that Koskov is a friend of the arms dealer Brad Whitaker. After meeting Pushkin and faking his assassination by Bond, Bond investigates a scheme by Koskov and Whitaker to embezzle KGB funds and use them to purchase diamonds, which they then use to purchase drugs. After Koskov purchases the drugs, Bond destroys them. Koskov is subsequently arrested by Pushkin, while Bond kills Whitaker.
Licence to Kill (1989)[edit]
Main article: Licence to Kill
Bond aids Felix Leiter in the capture of drugs lord Franz Sanchez; Sanchez escapes and maims Leiter, killing his wife. Bond swears revenge, but is ordered to return to duty by M. Bond refuses, and M revokes his licence to kill, causing Bond to become a rogue agent; although officially stripped of his status, he is unofficially given help by Q.
Bond journeys to Sanchez's home in the Republic of Isthmus and is taken onto Sanchez's staff, where he manages to raise Sanchez's suspicions against a number of his employees. When Bond is taken to Sanchez's main base and drugs refinery, he is recognised by one of Sanchez's men and captured. He escapes, destroying the refinery in the process, and pursues Sanchez, killing him.
GoldenEye (1995)[edit]
Main article: GoldenEye
In 1986, Bond and Alec Trevelyan—agent 006—infiltrate an illicit Soviet chemical weapons facility and plant explosive charges. Trevelyan is shot, but Bond escapes from the facility as it explodes. Nine years later, Bond witnesses the theft by criminal organisation Janus of a prototype Eurocopter Tiger helicopter that can withstand an electromagnetic pulse. Janus uses the helicopter to steal the control disk for the dual GoldenEye satellite weapons, using the GoldenEye to destroy the complex with an electromagnetic pulse; there is one survivor of the attack, a programmer, Natalya Simonova.
Bond investigates the attack and travels to Russia where he locates Simonova and learns that Trevelyan, who had faked his own death, was the head of Janus. Simonova tracks computer traffic to Cuba and she and Bond travel there and locate Trevelyan, who reveals his plan to steal money from the Bank of England before erasing all of its financial records with the GoldenEye, concealing the theft and destroying Britain's economy. Bond and Simonova destroy the satellite facility, killing Trevelyan and Grishenko in the process.
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)[edit]
Main article: Tomorrow Never Dies
Bond investigates the sinking of a British warship in Chinese waters, the theft of one of the ship's cruise missiles—and the shooting down of a Chinese fighter plane. He uncovers a link to media mogul Elliot Carver which suggests that Carver had purchased a GPS encoder on the black market.
Bond encounters Chinese agent Wai Lin, who is also investigating the matter and the two agree to work together. They discover that Carver had used the GPS encoder to push the British ship off course and into Chinese waters in order to incite a war for ratings. With the British fleet on their way to China, Bond and Wai Lin find Carver's stealth ship, board it and prevent the firing of a British cruise missile at Beijing. They blow a hole in the ship, exposing it to radar, leading to its sinking averting war between Britain and China.
The World Is Not Enough (1999)[edit]
Main article: The World Is Not Enough
Bond recovers money for Sir Robert King, a British oil tycoon and friend of M, but the money is booby-trapped and kills King shortly afterwards. Bond traces the money to Renard, a KGB agent-turned-terrorist, who had previously kidnapped King's daughter Elektra. MI6 believes that Renard is targeting Elektra King a second time and Bond is assigned to protect her: the pair are subsequently attacked.
Bond visits Valentin Zukovsky and is informed that Elektra's head of security, Davidov, is in league with Renard: Bond kills Davidov and follows the trail to a Russian ICBM base in Kazakhstan. Posing as a Russian nuclear scientist, Bond meets American nuclear physicist Christmas Jones. The two witness Renard stealing the GPS locator card and a half quantity of weapons-grade plutonium from a bomb and set off an explosion, from which Bond and Jones escape. Elektra kidnaps M after she thinks Bond had been killed and Bond establishes that Elektra intends to create a nuclear explosion in a submarine in Istanbul in order to increase the value of her own oil pipeline. Bond frees M, kills Elektra and then disarms the bomb on the submarine and kills Renard.
Die Another Day (2002)[edit]
Main article: Die Another Day
Bond investigates North Korean Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, who is illegally trading African conflict diamonds for weaponry. Moon is apparently killed and Bond is captured and tortured for 14 months, after which he is exchanged for Zao, Moon's assistant. Despite being suspended on his return, he decides to complete his mission and tracks down Zao to a gene therapy clinic, where patients can have their appearances altered through DNA restructuring. Zao escapes, but the trail leads to British billionaire Gustav Graves.
Graves unveils a mirror satellite, "Icarus", which is able to focus solar energy on a small area and provide year-round sunshine for crop development. Bond discovers Moon has also undergone the gene therapy and has assumed the identity of Graves. Bond then exposes Moon's plan: to use the Icarus to cut a path through the Korean Demilitarized Zone with concentrated sunlight, allowing North Korean troops to invade South Korea and reunite the countries through force. Bond disables the Icarus controls, kills Moon and stops the invasion.
Casino Royale (2006)[edit]
Main article: Casino Royale (2006 film)
A reboot of the series, with Bond winning his 00 status in the pre-credits sequence. Bond is instructed to investigate the funding of terrorism. He tracks down and kills a bomb-maker and takes his mobile phone. Searching through the phone, Bond discovers a text message which he traces to Alex Dimitrios, and then on to financer Le Chiffre. Le Chiffre's investments involve short-selling stock in successful companies and then engineering terrorist attacks to sink their share prices. Bond foils Le Chiffre's plan to destroy the prototype Skyfleet airliner, which forces Le Chiffre to set up a high-stakes poker tournament at the Casino Royale to recoup his fortune. Bond is instructed to beat Le Chiffre and is aided by a member of HM Treasury, Vesper Lynd.
Bond beats Le Chiffre at the poker table, but Lynd is kidnapped by Le Chiffre after the game, as is Bond, who is captured whilst pursuing them; Lynd is ransomed for the money and Bond is tortured. Le Chiffre is subsequently killed by Mr. White, a liaison between Le Chiffre and a number of his clients. Bond learns that his poker winnings were never repaid to the Treasury, which Lynd was supposed to have done, and Bond establishes that she was a double agent. Bond pursues her and is attacked by members of White's organisation: he survives, but White takes the money and Lynd commits suicide. Bond subsequently finds and captures White.
Quantum of Solace (2008)[edit]
Main article: Quantum of Solace
Along with M, Bond interrogates Mr. White regarding his organisation, Quantum. M's bodyguard, Mitchell, a double agent, attacks M, enabling White to escape. Bond traces the organisation to Haiti and a connection to environmentalist Dominic Greene.
Bond uncovers a plot between Greene and an exiled Bolivian General, Medrano, to put Medrano in power in Bolivia while Quantum are given a monopoly to run the water supply to the country. Bond ascertains Quantum are damming Bolivia's supply of fresh water in order to force the price up. Bond attacks the hotel where Greene and Medrano are finalising their plans and leaves Greene stranded in the desert with only a tin of engine oil to drink. Bond then finds Vesper Lynd's former lover and member of Quantum, Yusef Kabira.
Skyfall (2012)[edit]
Main article: Skyfall
After an operation in Istanbul ends in disaster, Bond is missing and presumed to be dead. In the aftermath, questions are raised over M's ability to run the Secret Service, and she becomes the subject of a government review over her handling of the situation. The Service itself is attacked, prompting Bond's return to London. His presence assists MI6's investigation in uncovering a lead, and Bond is sent to Shanghai and Macau in pursuit of a mercenary named Patrice. There, he establishes a connection to Raoul Silva, a former MI6 agent who was captured and tortured by Chinese agents. Blaming M for his imprisonment, he sets in motion a plan to ruin her reputation before murdering her. Bond saves M and attempts to lure Silva into a trap, and while he is successful in repelling Silva's assault, M is mortally wounded. Bond returns to active duty under the command of the new M, Gareth Mallory.
Box office[edit]
The Eon-produced films have a combined gross of nearly $5 billion (prior to the release of Skyfall), and constitute the third-highest-grossing film series, behind the Harry Potter films[6] and the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise.[6] If the effects of inflation are taken into account, however, the Bond films have amassed over $10 billion as of 2005 prices.[7]

Title
Year
Bond actor
Director
Box office
Budget
Salary of Bond actor
Box office
Budget
Salary of Bond actor

Actual $ (millions)[14][15]
Adjusted 2005 $ (millions)[15]



Dr. No
1962 Sean Connery Terence Young 59.5 1.1 0.1 448.8 7.0 0.6
From Russia with Love
1963 Sean Connery Terence Young 78.9 2.0 0.3 543.8 12.6 1.6
Goldfinger
1964 Sean Connery Guy Hamilton 124.9 3.0 0.5 820.4 18.6 3.2
Thunderball
1965 Sean Connery Terence Young 141.2 6.8 0.8 848.1 41.9 4.7
You Only Live Twice
1967 Sean Connery Lewis Gilbert 101.0 10.3 0.8 + 25% net merch royalty 514.2 59.9 4.4 excluding profit participation
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 George Lazenby Peter R. Hunt 64.6 7.0 0.1 291.5 37.3 0.6
Diamonds Are Forever
1971 Sean Connery Guy Hamilton 116.0 7.2 1.2 + 12.5% of gross (14.5) 442.5 34.7 5.8 excluding profit participation
Live and Let Die
1973 Roger Moore Guy Hamilton 126.4 7.0 n/a 460.3 30.8 n/a
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974 Roger Moore Guy Hamilton 98.5 7.0 n/a 334.0 27.7 n/a
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977 Roger Moore Lewis Gilbert 185.4 14.0 n/a 533.0 45.1 n/a
Moonraker
1979 Roger Moore Lewis Gilbert 210.3 34.0 n/a 535.0 91.5 n/a
For Your Eyes Only
1981 Roger Moore John Glen 194.9 28.0 n/a 449.4 60.2 n/a
Octopussy
1983 Roger Moore John Glen 183.7 27.5 4.0 373.8 53.9 7.8
A View to a Kill
1985 Roger Moore John Glen 152.4 30.0 5.0 275.2 54.5 9.1
The Living Daylights
1987 Timothy Dalton John Glen 191.2 40.0 3.0 313.5 68.8 5.2
Licence to Kill
1989 Timothy Dalton John Glen 156.2 36.0 5.0 250.9 56.7 7.9
GoldenEye
1995 Pierce Brosnan Martin Campbell 351.9 60.0 4.0 518.5 76.9 5.1
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 Pierce Brosnan Roger Spottiswoode 338.9 110.0 8.2 463.2 133.9 10.0
The World Is Not Enough
1999 Pierce Brosnan Michael Apted 361.8 135.0 12.4 439.5 158.3 13.5
Die Another Day
2002 Pierce Brosnan Lee Tamahori 431.9 142.0 16.5 465.4 154.2 17.9
Casino Royale
2006 Daniel Craig Martin Campbell 594.2 150.0 3.4 581.5 145.3 3.3
Quantum of Solace
2008 Daniel Craig Marc Forster 576.0 200.0 8.9 514.2 181.4 8.1
Skyfall
2012 Daniel Craig Sam Mendes 1108.6[16] 150.0[17][18]—200.0[16] 17.0[19] 879.8 158.1 13.5
Totals $5.9484B $1.2579B  $11.2965B $1.7039B 

Critical reception and accolades[edit]
The Bond films have been nominated for a number of awards throughout their fifty year history, with most films winning an award; these include successes at the British Academy Film Awards, Golden Globe Awards and Academy Awards. In addition, in 1982 Albert R. Broccoli received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.[20]

Film
Year
Actor
Rotten Tomatoes
Metacritic
BFCA
Awards



Dr. No
1962 Sean Connery 98% (47 reviews)[21]   Winner, Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress at the 21st Golden Globe Awards[22]
From Russia with Love
1963 Sean Connery 96% (49 reviews)[23]   Winner, BAFTA Award for British Cinematography: Colour at the 17th British Academy Film Awards[24]
 Nominated, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 22nd Golden Globe Awards[25]
Goldfinger
1964 Sean Connery 96% (55 reviews)[26]   Winner, Academy Award for Best Sound Effects at the 37th Academy Awards[27]
 Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best British Art Direction: Colour at the 18th British Academy Film Awards[28]
Thunderball
1965 Sean Connery 85% (39 reviews)[29]   Winner, Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 38th Academy Awards[30]
 Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best British Art Direction: Colour at the 19th British Academy Film Awards[31]
You Only Live Twice
1967 Sean Connery 72% (39 reviews)[32]   Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best British Art Direction: Colour at the 21st British Academy Film Awards[33]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 George Lazenby 81% (43 reviews)[34]   Nominated, Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor at the 27th Golden Globe Awards[35]
Diamonds Are Forever
1971 Sean Connery 65% (40 reviews)[36]   Nominated, Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing at the 44th Academy Awards[37]
Live and Let Die
1973 Roger Moore 66% (41 reviews)[38]   Nominated, Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 46th Academy Awards[39]
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974 Roger Moore 46% (37 reviews)[40]   
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977 Roger Moore 78% (41 reviews)[41]   Nominated, Academy Awards for Best Original Score, Best Original Song and Best Production Design at the 50th Academy Awards[42]
 Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Production Design at the 31st British Academy Film Awards[43]
 Nominated, Anthony Asquith Award at the 31st British Academy Film Awards[43]
 Nominated, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 35th Golden Globe Awards[44]
 Nominated, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score at the 35th Golden Globe Awards[44]
Moonraker
1979 Roger Moore 62% (39 reviews)[45]   Nominated, Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 52nd Academy Awards[46]
For Your Eyes Only
1981 Roger Moore 73% (40 reviews)[47]   Nominated, Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 54th Academy Awards[8]
 Nominated, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 39th Golden Globe Awards[48]
Octopussy
1983 Roger Moore 42% (36 reviews)[49]   
A View to a Kill
1985 Roger Moore 36% (45 reviews)[50]   Nominated, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 43rd Golden Globe Awards[51]
The Living Daylights
1987 Timothy Dalton 75% (36 reviews)[52]   
Licence to Kill
1989 Timothy Dalton 74% (39 reviews)[53]   
GoldenEye
1995 Pierce Brosnan 82% (50 reviews)[54] 65 (18 reviews)[55]  Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Sound at the 49th British Academy Film Awards[56]
 Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects at the 49th British Academy Film Awards[57]
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 Pierce Brosnan 57% (63 reviews)[58] 56 (21 reviews)[59]  Nominated, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 55th Golden Globe Awards[60]
The World Is Not Enough
1999 Pierce Brosnan 51% (121 reviews)[61] 59 (33 reviews)[62]  
Die Another Day
2002 Pierce Brosnan 57% (198 reviews)[63] 56 (37 reviews)[64] 74[65] Nominated, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score at the 60th Golden Globe Awards[66]
Casino Royale
2006 Daniel Craig 95% (222 reviews)[67] 81 (38 reviews)[68] 88 (Critics' Choice)[69] Nominated, Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the 60th British Academy Film Awards[70]
 Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 60th British Academy Film Awards[71]
 Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects at the 60th British Academy Film Awards[71]
 Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 60th British Academy Film Awards[71]
 Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Production Design at the 60th British Academy Film Awards[71]
 Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Sound at the 60th British Academy Film Awards[71]
 Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Editing at the 60th British Academy Film Awards[72]
 Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography at the 60th British Academy Film Awards[72]
 Nominated, Anthony Asquith Award for achievement in Film Music at the 60th British Academy Film Awards[72]
Quantum of Solace
2008 Daniel Craig 64% (244 reviews)[73] 58 (38 reviews)[74] 81 (Critics' Choice)[75] Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Sound at the 62nd British Academy Film Awards[76]
 Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects at the 62nd British Academy Film Awards[76]
Skyfall
2012 Daniel Craig 92% (295 reviews)[77] 81 (43 reviews)[78] 92 (Critics' Choice)[79] Winner, Academy Award for Best Sound Editing at the 85th Academy Awards[80]
 Winner, Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 85th Academy Awards[80]
 Winner, Best Cinematography Award at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards[81]
 Winner, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 70th Golden Globe Awards[82]
 Winner, BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film at the 66th British Academy Film Awards[83]
 Winner, BAFTA Award for Best Film Music at the 66th British Academy Film Awards[83]
 Nominated, Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing at the 85th Academy Awards[80]
 Nominated, Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the 85th Academy Awards[80]
 Nominated, Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 85th Academy Awards[80]

Non-Eon films[edit]
Plots[edit]
Casino Royale (1967)[edit]
Main article: Casino Royale (1967 film)
Bond is brought out of retirement to deal with SMERSH and is promoted to the head of MI6 on the death of M. He recruits baccarat player Evelyn Tremble to beat SMERSH agent Le Chiffre. Having embezzled SMERSH's money, Le Chiffre is desperate for money to cover up his theft. Tremble stops Le Chiffre's cheating and beats him in a game of baccarat. Tremble is captured, tortured and killed. Bond establishes that the casino is located atop a giant underground headquarters run by the evil Dr. Noah; he and Moneypenny travel there to investigate. Dr. Noah turns out to be Sir James's nephew Jimmy Bond, who plans to use biological warfare to make all women beautiful and kill all tall men, leaving him as the "big man" who gets all the girls. The casino is then overrun by secret agents and a battle ensues, but the building explodes, killing all inside.
Never Say Never Again (1983)[edit]
Main article: Never Say Never Again
Bond investigates the hijacking of two cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads which had been taken by SPECTRE. He meets Domino Petachi, the pilot's sister, and her lover, Maximillian Largo, a SPECTRE agent. Following them to France, Bond informs Domino of her brother's death and subsequently finds his MI6 colleague killed by Fatima Blush, another SPECTRE agent: Bond kills her. Bond and Felix Leiter then attempt to board Largo's motor yacht, the Flying Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond becomes trapped and is taken, with Domino, to Palmyra, Largo's base of operations in North Africa, but Bond subsequently escapes with Domino. The two agents ambush Largo while placing one of the bombs.
Box office and critical reception[edit]

Title
Year
Bond actor
Director
Box
 office
Budget
Box
 office
Budget
Rotten Tomatoes rating

Actual $ (millions)[84]
Adjusted 2005 $ (millions)[85]



Casino Royale
1967 David Niven Ken Hughes
John Huston
Joseph McGrath
Robert Parrish
Val Guest
Richard Talmadge 44.4 12 260 70 27%[86]
Never Say Never Again
1983 Sean Connery Irvin Kershner 160 36 314 71 60%[87]
All sums in millions of U.S. dollars, except where otherwise stated.
Total box office-adjusted and budget-adjusted calculated on 2005 dollars[85]
See also[edit]

Portal icon James Bond portal
Bond girl
Casino Royale (Climax!), the first live-action adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel
James Bond music
Outline of James Bond
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Young Bond
YoungJamesBond.jpg
Illustration of a young James Bond by Kev Walker

SilverFin
Blood Fever
Double or Die
Hurricane Gold
By Royal Command
Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier
 Shoot to Kill

Author
Charlie Higson, Steve Cole
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Spy fiction, Thriller
Publisher
Puffin Books (UK)
Hyperion Books (US)
Published
3 March 2005 – 3 September 2008
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Audiobook
Young Bond is a series of young adult spy novels by Charlie Higson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond as a young teenage boy attending school at Eton College in the 1930s. The series was originally planned to include only five novels; however, after the release of the fifth novel, a second series was considered by Higson as a possibility.[1] In October 2013 it was confirmed that a second series of four novels was in development, with the first novel due for release in Autumn 2014, but it would be penned by Steve Cole while Higson continued work on his young adult zombie series, The Enemy.[2]
Since the release of the first novel SilverFin in 2005, the series has become very successful[3] and has led to further works including games, a graphic novel and even a supplemental travel guide. The last book, By Royal Command, was published in September 2008.
English-language versions of the books are published by Puffin Books in the United Kingdom and Hyperion Books For Children in the United States.



Contents  [hide]
1 Books in the series 1.1 Graphic novels
1.2 Supplementary books
1.3 Short story
2 History and controversy
3 US publication
4 Games
5 Other media
6 Continuation
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Books in the series[edit]
According to Charlie Higson, Ian Fleming Publications initially planned for him to only write one novel and that every subsequent novel would be written by a rotating author. This plan fell apart and Higson agreed to author future books in the series. However, comments made by Higson in an interview could suggest that after Higson's five books are completed, the series may be continued by another author.[4]
SilverFin (2005): In 1933, thirteen-year-old James Bond arrives at Eton College for boys for the first time to continue his schooling. There he meets an American bully and his arms dealing father, Lord Randolph Hellebore. While on Easter break, Bond's adventure continues in the Highlands of Scotland. Teaming up with Red Kelly, James finally reaches a castle and a loch and discovers a deadly secret.
Blood Fever (2006): In 1933, James Bond is back at Eton where he is now a member of a secret risk-taking club known as the Danger Society. When summer vacation arrives Bond goes on a field trip to the Italian island of Sardinia where he stays with his much older cousin Victor. While there, James investigates a Roman secret society known as the Millenaria that had plans throughout history to restore the Roman Empire. It seems the Millenaria are still active and are led by the sinister Count Ugo Carnifex.
Double or Die (2007): The third Young Bond novel is set entirely in England during Christmas and finds James searching for a missing school master in the darkest corners of London. The book involves Russian spies attempting to build an early computer. The title of the book was chosen by fans via an online poll and kept secret until the day of publication.[5]
Hurricane Gold (2007): The fourth Young Bond novel, Hurricane Gold, is set in Mexico and the Caribbean. The book was released on 6 September 2007 in the UK.[6] The plot is centred around Bond trying to foil the robbery of a team of professional criminals, only to end up following them around Mexico and eventually to a mysterious Caribbean island called Lagrimas Negras. The book contains many references to Mayan mythology and much of the end is focused on it.
By Royal Command (2008) : The fifth Young Bond novel[7] was released in the UK on 3 September 2008. The book deals with Bond leaving Eton College due to the incident with the maid, as mentioned in You Only Live Twice.[8] This book is set in multiple European countries including Austria, England, France, Germany and Switzerland. The Royal Family and the British secret service also play a part in the plot (revealing that Bond's tutor is a British spy).[9] In this book, James Bond falls in love with his Irish maid, Roan.[10][11]
Graphic novels[edit]
SilverFin: The Graphic Novel (2008) : The first Young Bond novel, SilverFin, was released as a graphic novel on 2 October 2008 by Puffin Books. The book was written by Charlie Higson and illustrated by renowned comic book artist Kev Walker.[12] It was released by Disney Publishing in the US as both a hardcover and paperback in 2010 and was awarded the 2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award the following year.[13]
Supplementary books[edit]
The Young Bond Rough Guide to London, Puffin Books/Rough Guides (2007)
64-page booklet featuring London locations from Double or Die.Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier, Puffin Books (2009)
Complete and definitive guide to the world and adventures of Young Bond. It includes the brand-new Young Bond short story "A Hard Man to Kill" by Charlie Higson. Release date: 29 October 2009.[14][15]
Short story[edit]
An original Young Bond short story by Charlie Higson titled A Hard Man to Kill was published in the companion book Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier on 29 October 2009. The story is set between the books Hurricane Gold and By Royal Command and involves Young Bond travelling back to London aboard the French ocean liner SS Colombie. An extract from the story appeared in the paperback edition of By Royal Command. It is the longest James Bond short story yet written.[16][17]
History and controversy[edit]
Prior to the release of SilverFin, the idea of a Young Bond series had not gone over too well with the fans of the more traditional Bond literature and had come under heavy fire, with some fans comparing it to an unsuccessful 1960s attempt by Bond's publishers to launch a youth-oriented line of fiction that resulted in only one book: The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ written by the pseudonymous R. D. Mascott. There was also a moderately successful James Bond Jr. television series in the early 1990s aimed at children that dealt with Bond's supposed nephew.
John Gardner, who had written fourteen original novels and two novelisations featuring the adult Bond, was also critical of the series prior to the release of the first book. He stated:
"It's just the last desperate attempt to draw in a new audience. The films have little to do with the Bond we used to know, and now the books are going the same way."[18]
Higson, for his part, has been on record as stating that he intends to stay true to the backstory Ian Fleming created for Bond, though this in many ways contradicts the popular James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 by John Pearson.
When SilverFin was published in March 2005, reviews of the novel were good. This, in addition to a large marketing campaign in the United Kingdom, elevated SilverFin to the number eight spot on the Booksellers list of best-selling children's books in the UK.[19] By November 2005, SilverFin had already sold 500,000 copies worldwide.[20]
A second book in the Young Bond series, Blood Fever, was released on 5 January 2006 in the UK having been delayed from an initial release in October 2005. The book reached the number one spot on the Booksellers list of best-selling children's books in the UK in its second week of release and held the spot for eleven weeks.[21]
Double or Die, the third book in the series, was released in the UK on 4 January 2007, having had its title announced the day before. The title was voted on in a national poll on the official Young Bond website; the other two titles to choose from were N.E.M.E.S.I.S. and The Deadlock Cipher. After the first three days of Double or Die's release it took the number two spot on the Booksellers list of best-selling children's books in the UK and number fourteen in the overall UK Top 50 list. A week later it had climbed to number one on the children's list and the number twelve spot overall.[22][23]
As of March 2009 the Young Bond novels have sold over 5 million copies and have been translated into 25 languages.
In December 2010 all five Young Bond books were released as eBooks by Ian Fleming Publications.[24]
On 5 May 2011 Puffin Books released two special editions of SilverFin[25]
The five book Young Bond series will be re-released in the UK on 5 April 2012 with all new cover art by Hyperion Books.[26]
US publication[edit]
In June 2004 it was announced that the Young Bond series would be published by Miramax Books, then still a part of Disney. The acquisition was announced by Miramax co-chair Harvey Weinstein and Miramax Books president & editor in chief Jonathan Burnham. The deal’s price tag was not disclosed, but was understood to be in the six-figure range.[27] Miramax, in conjunction with Disney's Hyperion Books for Children label, published SilverFin in 2005 and Blood Fever in 2006. Following Miramax's split from Disney, Ian Fleming Publications struck a new deal for the remaining books with Hyperion Books for Children. This created a gap between publication of the books in the UK and US, with the third book, Double or Die not appearing in the US until April 2008. Book Four, Hurricane Gold, was published by Disney-Hyperion in April 2009. Also in 2009, Disney-Hyperion re-released SilverFin and Blood Fever with new cover art by artist Kev Walker.[28] By Royal Command and SilverFin: The Graphic Novel were released in the US on 18 May 2010.[13]
Games[edit]
With the release of the Hurricane Gold book TAMBA and Fleming media released the Avenue of Death game which is based on one of the chapters in the book.
On 11 August 2008 Puffin Books announced the first Young Bond alternate reality game (ARG), The Shadow War.[29] The online game started on 23 August, when Charlie Higson set the first mission during his appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. In the game, players around the world use a range of media, including the Young Bond books themselves and the World Wide Web, to complete the missions and influence the outcome of the game. Charlie Higson took part in a live online event that concluded the game on 8 October 2008.[30]
Other media[edit]
On 27 January 2005 Puffin launched the official Young Bond website www.youngbond.com.[31] The site contains downloads, games, character images by Kev Walker and book extracts. Joining "the Danger Society" allowed users to post in a forum (now closed) and receive email newsletters with the latest Young Bond news. Originally, the site was designed to look like Young Bond's room at Eton, but the site received a major overhaul in May 2008 and now features a more contemporary look.[32] Official news is streamed to the site from the fansite www.youngbonddossier.com run by "zencat" (American screenwriter John Cox).[33]
On 23 April 2005, Ian Fleming Publications released the first illustration of the thirteen-year-old James Bond drawn by Kev Walker. Walker illustrations have also been used on the covers of the U.S. hardback editions of Blood Fever and Double or Die. Walker will illustrate the SilverFin graphic novel to be released in the UK on 2 October 2008.[34]
Due to the success of SilverFin and Blood Fever, Hollywood has been interested in adapting these novels to film; however, Ian Fleming Publications and Charlie Higson have said they hope to release a few more books before possibly considering it.[3] Today, it is believed the film rights to James Bond on film reside exclusively with Danjaq, LLC, the parent company of Eon Productions, however, according to Charlie Higson this is not exactly the case.[35]
Continuation[edit]
On 9 October 2013 Ian Fleming Publications announced that a new series of four Young Bond books were in development, written by Astrosaurs creator, Steve Cole. Cole's novels will follow on from Higson's last entry, By Royal Command and the aftermath of Bond's expulsion from Eton. The first novel will be published in the UK by Random House in the autumn of 2014. A lifelong fan of the original Bond novels, Cole described the task as "a thrilling privilege and an exciting challenge".[36]
In an interview with the Bucks Herald, Cole confirmed that Bond would be 14–15 years old in his novels and that the books would show how the adult Bond was formed. As part of the process for securing the position, Cole was tasked with creating a pitch for a story arc that would stretch across all four books.[37] In May 2014, it was announced that Cole's book, titled Shoot to Kill, will be released on 6 November 2014.[38]
See also[edit]

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James Bond Jr.
Alex Rider
Jimmy Coates
CHERUB
Henderson's Boys
Cody Banks
Spy School
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
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2.Jump up ^ "More Young Bond adventures coming with new author Steve Cole". MI6-HQ. 9 October 2013.
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4.Jump up ^ "Charlie Higson interview with CommanderBond.net". The Charlie Higson CBn Interview. Retrieved 23 February 2005.
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8.Jump up ^ "MI6-HQ.com interview with Charlie Higson". In Conversation With Charlie Higson. Retrieved 8 March 2006.
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11.Jump up ^ "Charlie drops a Book 5 bombshell". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 6 October 2007.
12.Jump up ^ "SilverFin The Graphic Novel released in UK". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
13.^ Jump up to: a b "SilverFin The Graphic Novel nominated for Eisner Award". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
14.Jump up ^ "Young Bond companion book in November". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
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16.Jump up ^ "Exclusive: Title and details revealed of new Young Bond short story". MI6-HQ.com. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
17.Jump up ^ "Young Bond is back in ‘A Hard Man to Kill’". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 28 May 2009.
18.Jump up ^ "John Gardner on Young Bond series". Boys' own James Bond. Retrieved 28 February 2005.
19.Jump up ^ "'Blood Fever' sales". Blood Fever is No. 1 Bestseller. Retrieved 18 January 2006.
20.Jump up ^ "SilverFin sales". The name's Bond – Bond junior. Archived from the original on 5 December 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2006.
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38.Jump up ^ "New Young Bond Title Revealed". Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
External links[edit]
Young Bond official website
The Young Bond Dossier – Official Young Bond news source
Young Bond coverage on MI6
Young Bond coverage at CommanderBond.net



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Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations




Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works




R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories




Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

Related works
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report (1964) ·
 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
 The Book of Bond (1965) ·
 The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) ·
 The Battle for Bond (2007) ·
 Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier (2009)
 

 



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A number of real-life inspirations have been suggested for James Bond, the fictional character created in 1953 by British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer Ian Fleming; Bond appeared in twelve novels and nine short stories by Fleming, as well as a number of continuation novels and twenty-five films, with seven actors playing the role of Bond.
Although the stories and characters were fictional, a number of elements had a real life background, taken from real people or events that Fleming knew or about which he had read. These included the name James Bond, which Fleming took from the American ornithologist James Bond, Bond's code number—007—which came both from English spy and polymath John Dee, the breaking of a World War I German diplomatic code, Bond's character and tastes, as well as Fleming himself.



Contents  [hide]
1 Origins of the name
2 Character inspirations
3 Literary inspirations
4 Inspiration for "007"
5 See also
6 References
7 Sources
8 External links

Origins of the name[edit]



James Bond, ornithologist; provider of Bond's name
On the morning of 17 February 1952 Ian Fleming started writing what would become his first book, Casino Royale, at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. He typed out 2,000 words in the morning, directly from his own experiences and imagination[1] and finished work on the manuscript in just over a month,[2] completing it on 18 March 1952.[3] Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born".[4]




When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument ... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.
Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21 April 1962[5]
On another occasion Fleming said: "I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, 'James Bond' was much better than something more interesting, like 'Peregrine Carruthers'. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure—an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department."[6] After Fleming met the ornithologist and his wife, he described them as "a charming couple who are amused by the whole joke".[7] The ornithologist was obliquely referred to in the film Die Another Day with Pierce Brosnan's Bond picking up a copy of Birds of the West Indies and posing as an ornithologist.[8]
Character inspirations[edit]
During the Second World War Fleming was the personal assistant to the Director of the Naval Intelligence Division, Admiral John Godfrey.[9] He reached the rank of commander—a rank he subsequently gave to his fictional creation—and was the planner for special operations unit 30th Assault Unit.[10] Many of Bond's tastes and traits were Fleming's own, including sharing the same golf handicap, the taste for scrambled eggs and using the same brand of toiletries.[11] Bond's tastes are also often taken from Fleming's, as was his behaviour,[12] with Bond's love of golf and gambling mirroring his creator's. Fleming used the experiences of his espionage career and other aspects of his life as inspiration when writing, including using names of school friends, acquaintances, relatives and lovers throughout his books.[13]
Bond's cigarettes were also the same as Fleming's, who had been buying his custom-made by Morland since the 1930s; Fleming added the three gold bands on the filter during the war to mirror his naval Commander's rank.[14] On average, Bond smokes sixty cigarettes a day, although he cut back to around twenty five a day after his visit to a health farm in Thunderball.[15] Fleming himself smoked up to eighty cigarettes a day.[16] Apart from imbuing Bond with his own tastes, Fleming based his fictional creation on a number of individuals he came across during his time in Intelligence, admitting that Bond "was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war".[13]

Name
Dates
Notes



Sidney Cotton
17 June 1894 – 13 February 1969 Cotton was born in Australia and moved to England to serve in the Royal Naval Air Service. He was a close friend of Fleming during the Second World War. After having served as a pilot in the First World War, Cotton worked for MI6 photographing German factories, military installations and airfields from a camera hidden in a plane's fuselage. He would also openly take photographs of installations using people as cover for doing so—including Hitler's deputy, Hermann Göring. Cotton also flew the last civilian plane out of Berlin at the outbreak of the Second World War, taking pictures of the German navy as he did so.[17]
Patrick Dalzel-Job
1 June 1913 – 14 October 2003 Naval Intelligence Officer and Commando of the Second World War, Dalzel-Job was also an accomplished linguist, author, mariner, navigator, parachutist, diver and skier and knew Fleming through his service with 30AU.[18] Like Bond, he had a rebellious streak when he disagreed with orders on points of principle. A modest man, when once asked about the connection with Bond he replied: "I have never read a Bond book or seen a Bond movie. They are not my style ... And I only loved one woman and I'm not a drinking man."[19]
Wilfred (Biffy) Dunderdale
24 December 1899 – 13 November 1990 The MI6 head of station in Paris, Dunderdale would regularly dine at Maxim's; he drove an armour-plated Rolls-Royce and dress in handmade suits and Cartier cufflinks.[20] Dunderdale was a bon viveur who enjoyed attractive women and fast cars and was a friend of Fleming's during the Second World War.[21] He also played a key role in the cracking of the Enigma code.[20]
Peter Fleming
31 May 1907 – 18 August 1971 Ian Fleming's elder brother, and wartime expert of military intelligence and irregular warfare. He spent time behind enemy lines in Norway and Greece during the war.[22] He also spent time in Delhi, organising deception plans to fool the Imperial Japanese Army.[23]
Sandy Glen
18 April 1912 – 6 March 2004 Glen was a former Arctic explorer who worked with Fleming in Naval Intelligence.[24] Like Bond, Glen went to Fettes College and had Scottish antecedents.[25] Glen distanced himself from the connection, saying "I don't think it's true for a moment; I'm far too gentle, too law-abiding."[24]
Duane Hudson
11 August 1910 – 1 November 1995 Hudson spent much of the Second World War behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia, initially with the British Secret Service and subsequently with the Special Operations Executive (SOE).[26] Hudson survived assassination attempts and recruited a network of agents to blow up Axis shipping—blowing up an Italian ship single-handedly.[27]
Fitzroy Maclean
11 March 1911 – 15 June 1996 During World War II Maclean was a British agent in Yugoslavia and friend (and biographer) of Josip Broz Tito, as well as a member of the Special Air Service, active in North Africa and Yugoslavia. Although a number of media sources at the time of his death suggested that he was a model for Bond, he denied the rumour, a view shared by Fleming's biographer, Andrew Lycett.[24][28]
Michael Mason
— Mason ran away from his wealthy family at an early age to go to Canada where he worked as a trapper and professional boxer. At the outbreak of war he worked in then-neutral Bucharest where he killed two German agents who were trying to assassinate him.[24]
Merlin Minshall
21 December 1906 – 3 September 1987 Minshall was a fellow member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and was known to Fleming through his work in naval intelligence. In 1940 he joined the SOE and waged guerrilla warfare against the Nazis in France and Yugoslavia. [29][30]
Conrad O'Brien-ffrench
19 November 1893 – 23 October 1986 O'Brien-ffrench was a distinguished British Secret Intelligence Officer, decorated army officer, skier, mountaineer, linguist, traveller and artist. He met Fleming in Austria in the 1930s while working for Claude Dansey's "Z" network gathering information on German troop movements.[13][31] In 1918, Stewart Menzies recruited Conrad into MI6 who then undertook clandestine missions abroad.[32]
Dušan Popov
10 July 1912 – 10 August 1981 Popov was a Serbian double agent of both MI5 (code named "Tricycle") and the Abwehr.[33] Fleming knew Popov and followed him in Portugal, witnessing an event in the Estoril Casino where Popov placed a bet of $40,000 ($641,357 in 2014 dollars[34]) in order to cause a rival to withdraw from a baccarat table: Fleming used this episode as the basis for Casino Royale.[35]
Sidney Reilly
24 March 1873 – 5 November 1925 Reilly was an agent for Scotland Yard's Special Branch and the British Secret Service Bureau. In 1918, Reilly was employed by Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming as an operative for MI1(c), an early designation for the MI6.[36] Reilly's friend Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart knew Fleming for many years and told him of Reilly's espionage adventures;[37] Fleming subsequently mentioned to a colleague at The Sunday Times that he had created Bond after hearing about Reilly.[38]
Peter Smithers
9 December 1913 – 8 June 2006 Sir Peter Smithers, who was known to Fleming, organised passage for British refugees from France as the Nazis advanced through France. Later, as a naval attaché, he worked in Washington on spreading disinformation about the Nazis.[39] He spent part of the war working in Naval Intelligence; Fleming later named a character in Goldfinger after him.[40]
William Stephenson
23 January 1897 – 31 January 1989 William Stephenson was a Canadian spymaster, best known by his code name, Intrepid; Stephenson was the head of the British Security Coordination, an MI6 organisation based in New York.[41] Regarding him, Fleming wrote in The Sunday Times of 21 October 1962, that Bond was: "a highly romanticized version of a true spy. The real thing, the man who became one of the great agents of the [Second World War] is William Stephenson."[42]

Literary inspirations[edit]
Besides real life individuals, James Bond was also inspired by one of Dennis Wheatley's characters; the secret agent Gregory Sallust,[43] based on Wheatley's late friend Gordon Eric Gordon-Tombe.[44]
Inspiration for "007"[edit]
The 007 number assigned to James Bond may have been influenced by any number of sources. In the films and novels, the 00 prefix indicates Bond's discretionary 'licence to kill', in executing his duties. Bond's number—007—was assigned by Fleming in reference to one of British naval intelligence's key achievements of World War I: the breaking of the German diplomatic code.[45] One of the German documents cracked and read by the British was the Zimmermann Telegram, which was coded 0075,[46] and which was one of the factors that led to the US entering the war. Subsequently if material was graded 00 it meant it was highly classified and, as journalist Ben Macintyre has pointed out, "to anyone versed in intelligence history, 007 signified the highest achievement of British military intelligence."[45]
See also[edit]

Portal icon James Bond portal
Outline of James Bond
James Bond (literary character)
References[edit]
References
1.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 4.
2.Jump up ^ "Ian Fleming". About Ian Fleming. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
3.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 4.
4.Jump up ^ Caplen 2010, p. 21.
5.Jump up ^ Hellman, Geoffrey T. (21 April 1962). "Bond's Creator (subscription needed)". Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. p. 32. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
6.Jump up ^ Fleming, Ian (5 April 1958). ""The Exclusive Bond" Mr. Fleming on his hero". The Manchester Guardian. p. 4.
7.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 230.
8.Jump up ^ Steyn, Mark (30 November 2002). "Forever Bond". The Spectator (London) 131: 68.
9.Jump up ^ Lycett 1996, p. 103.
10.Jump up ^ Rankin 2011, p. 136.
11.Jump up ^ Macintyre 2008, p. 50.
12.Jump up ^ Cook, William (28 June 2004). "Novel man". New Statesman. p. 40.
13.^ Jump up to: a b c Macintyre, Ben (5 April 2008). "Bond – the real Bond". The Times. p. 36.
14.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 70.
15.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 70.
16.Jump up ^ Burns, John F (19 May 2008). "Remembering Fleming, Ian Fleming". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
17.Jump up ^ Morris, David (15 July 2001). "The real Bond – Revealed: 007 was actually a Queenslander". The Sunday Mail. p. 18.
18.Jump up ^ McGrory, Daniel; Evans, Michael; English, Shirley. "War hero hailed as the real 007 dies". The Times (London). p. 3.
19.Jump up ^ Macintyre 2008, p. 70.
20.^ Jump up to: a b Macintyre 2008, p. 72.
21.Jump up ^ Gardham, Duncan (22 September 2010). "Fast cars, women ... was he the model for Bond?". The Daily Telegraph (London). p. 15.
22.Jump up ^ "Obituary: Colonel Peter Fleming, Author and explorer". The Times (London). 20 August 1971. p. 14.
23.Jump up ^ Macintyre 2008, p. 67-68.
24.^ Jump up to: a b c d Cathcart, Brian (23 June 1996). "The name's Dunderdale, Biffy Dunderdale". The Independent (London). p. 10.
25.Jump up ^ Lycett 1996, p. 112.
26.Jump up ^ Foot, Michael (14 November 1995). "Obituary: Colonel D. T. Hudson". The Independent (London). p. 18.
27.Jump up ^ "Agent who met Tito". Herald Sun (Melbourne). 24 November 1995.
28.Jump up ^ West 2010, p. 134.
29.Jump up ^ "Wartime Agent Believed To Have Been Model For James Bond Dies". Associated Press. 23 September 1987.
30.Jump up ^ "Obituary of Mr Merlin Minshall". The Times (London). 23 September 1987.
31.Jump up ^ Jackson & Scott 2004, p. 125.
32.Jump up ^ McKay 1993, p. 115.
33.Jump up ^ "The name's Tricycle, Agent Tricycle". BBC News. 9 May 2002. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
34.Jump up ^ Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–2014. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
35.Jump up ^ West 2010, p. xxii–xxiii.
36.Jump up ^ Spence 2002, p. 93.
37.Jump up ^ Cook 2004, p. 12.
38.Jump up ^ Cook 2004, p. 10.
39.Jump up ^ Cameron, Sue (15 June 2006). "Model for 007 was more greenfinger than Goldfinger Obituary: Sir Peter Smithers". Financial Times (London). p. 4.
40.Jump up ^ "Obituary: Sir Peter Smithers". The Times (London). 15 June 2006. p. 62.
41.Jump up ^ West 2010, p. 15-16.
42.Jump up ^ Hamilton 2011, p. 147.
43.Jump up ^ Rosenberg, Tina (8 August 2012). "The Novelist Who Spied: How Dennis Wheatley Helped Defeat the Nazis". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
44.Jump up ^ "The Dennis Wheatley 'Museum' - Instant success as an author". Retrieved 24 December 2012.
45.^ Jump up to: a b Macintyre 2008, p. 65.
46.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 190.
Sources[edit]
Benson, Raymond (1988). The James Bond Bedside Companion. London: Boxtree Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85283-233-9.
Black, Jeremy (2005). The Politics of James Bond: from Fleming's Novel to the Big Screen. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
Caplen, Robert (2010). Shaken & Stirred: The Feminism of James Bond. Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4535-1282-1.
Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bond: The Man and His World. London: John Murray. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-2.
Cook, Andrew (2004). Ace of spies: the true story of Sidney Reilly. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-2959-5.
Hamilton, Dwight (2011). Inside Canadian Intelligence: Exposing the New Realities of Espionage and International Terrorism. Ontario: Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1-55488-892-4.
Jackson, Peter; Scott, L. V. (2004). Understanding intelligence in the 21st century: Journeys in shadows. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7146-5533-8.
Lycett, Andrew (1996). Ian Fleming. London: Phoenix. ISBN 978-1-85799-783-5.
Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Your Eyes Only. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.
McKay, C.G. (1993). From Information to Intrigue: Studies in Secret Service based on the Swedish Experience, 1939–1945. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7146-3470-8.
Rankin, Nicholas (2011). Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-25062-2.
Spence, Richard (2002). Trust no one: the secret world of Sidney Reilly. Washington: Feral House. ISBN 978-0-922915-79-8.
West, Nigel (2010). Historical dictionary of Ian Fleming's world of intelligence: fact and fiction. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-2896-3.
External links[edit]
30 Commando Assault Unit – Ian Fleming's 'Red Indians'
Ian Fleming Official website of Ian Fleming Publications.



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List of James Bond novels and short stories
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James Bond novels and short stories
Fourteen Fleming Bond books in a pile, the titles visible on the spines
Ian Fleming's James Bond novels

Author
Ian Fleming
Kingsley Amis (as Robert Markham)
Christopher Wood
John Gardner
Raymond Benson
Sebastian Faulks
Jeffery Deaver
William Boyd
Charlie Higson
Steve Cole
Country
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Language
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Jonathan Cape
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No. of books
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James Bond is the fictional protagonist of a series of novels and short stories, first published in 1953. Bond, often referred to by his code name, 007, is a British Secret Service agent; the character was created by journalist and author Ian Fleming, and first appeared in his 1953 novel, Casino Royale; the books are set in a contemporary period, between May 1951 and February 1964. Fleming went on to write a total of twelve novels and two collections of short stories, all written at his Jamaican home Goldeneye and published annually. Two of his books were published after his death in 1964.
Since Fleming's death a number of other authors have written continuation works. Some of these have been novelizations of episodes in the series of Bond films, produced by Eon Productions, while others were either continuation novels or short stories. The first author was Kingsley Amis, writing under the pseudonym of "Robert Markham" who produced one novel; then came novelist and biographer John Pearson who wrote a fictional biography of Bond. Novelist and screenwriter Christopher Wood wrote two novelizations in the late 1970s. Writer John Gardner was asked to continue the series by copyright holders Ian Fleming Publications and, between 1981 and 1996, he wrote fourteen novels and two novelizations. After Gardner retired due to ill health, American author Raymond Benson continued the stories and wrote six Bond novels, three novelizations and three short stories between 1996 and 2002.
There was a hiatus of six years before Sebastian Faulks was commissioned to write a further Bond novel, which was released on 28 May 2008, the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth. This was followed in 2011 by a novel by American author Jeffery Deaver and a 2013 book by William Boyd. There has also been a spin-off series of books, Young Bond, based around Bond's adventures whilst a schoolboy at Eton College.



Contents  [hide]
1 Ian Fleming 1.1 Books, by publication sequence
1.2 Short stories
1.3 Fictional chronologies
2 Post-Fleming James Bond novels 2.1 1968–79
2.2 1979–96: John Gardner
2.3 1996–2002: Raymond Benson
2.4 2003–
3 Young Bond
4 References
5 Bibliography
6 External links

Ian Fleming[edit]

signature of Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming's signature
During World War II Fleming had mentioned to friends that he wanted to write a spy novel,[1] but it was not until 17 February 1952 that he began to write his first novel, Casino Royale. He started writing his book at his Jamaican home Goldeneye, typing out 2,000 words in the morning, directly from his own experiences and imagination;[2] he finished work on the manuscript in just over two months,[3] completing it on 18 March 1952.[4] Publishers Jonathan Cape were initially reluctant to publish the book, but were persuaded by Fleming's brother Peter (1907–1971), who had previously published material through them.[5] On 13 April 1953 Casino Royale was released in the UK in hardcover, priced at 10s, 6d,[6] with a cover that had been devised by Fleming himself.[7] The first edition of 4,728 copies of Casino Royale sold out in less than a month;[7] a second print run the same month also sold out,[6] as did a third run of more than 8,000 books published in May 1954.[8] At the time, Fleming was the Foreign Manager for Kemsley Newspapers, an organisation which owned The Sunday Times. Upon accepting the job, Fleming requested that he be allowed three months holiday per year, which allowed him the freedom to write.[1]
The novel centred on the exploits of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the 00 section of the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond was also known by his code number, 007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander. Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies.[9] Fleming based his creation on a number of individuals he came across during his time in the Naval Intelligence Division during World War II, admitting that Bond "was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war".[10] After the publication of Casino Royale, Fleming used his annual holiday at his house in Jamaica to write another Bond story;[1] in total, between 1953 and 1966, two years after his death, twelve Bond novels and two short-story collections were published, with the last two books—The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living Daylights—published posthumously.[11]
Books, by publication sequence[edit]

Title
Author
Publisher
Date
Length (first edition)
Plot
Ref.



Casino Royale
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 13 April 1953 213 pp James Bond is sent to play against and bankrupt Le Chiffre, the paymaster for a SMERSH-controlled trade union, in a high-stakes baccarat game in France. With help from CIA agent Felix Leiter, Bond wins the game, but is betrayed by Vesper Lynd, a double agent. Lynd falls in love with Bond and, instead of betraying him, commits suicide. [12]
Live and Let Die
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 5 April 1954 234 pp Bond is sent to the United States to investigate "Mr. Big", an agent of SMERSH and an underworld voodoo leader who is suspected of selling 17th century gold coins to finance Soviet spy operations in America. Bond's friend and CIA ally, Felix Leiter, is captured and fed to a shark whilst Mr. Big's fortune-telling girlfriend, Solitaire, runs off with Bond. Solitaire is captured by Mr. Big, but Bond saves her and blows up Mr. Big's yacht with a limpet mine. [13]
Moonraker
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 5 April 1955 256 pp Bond joins M at Blades to stop a member, Sir Hugo Drax cheating at bridge. Bond is subsequently seconded onto Drax's staff on the "Moonraker", Britain's first nuclear missile project. Bond discovers that Drax is an ex-Nazi, working for the Soviets; he also establishes that the rocket is not a defence, but is to be used by Drax to destroy London. Bond re-coordinates the rocket, sending it into the North Sea, where it kills Drax. [14]
Diamonds Are Forever
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 26 March 1956 257 pp Bond follows a diamond smuggling ring to America and establishes it is run by an American gang, "The Spangled Mob". He closes down the pipeline by killing one of the heads of the gang, Seraffimo Spang, in a train crash; he then travels to Sierra Leone to kill the other head of the gang, Jack Spang. [15]
From Russia, with Love
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 8 April 1957 253 pp Bond is targeted by SMERSH to be killed in a compromising situation on the Orient Express. He is lured to Istanbul by an attractive young cipher clerk, Corporal Tatiana Romanova, who claims to be defecting and bringing a Spektor, a Russian decoding device much coveted by MI6. Returning to London by train Bond meets SMERSH assassin, Red Grant, pretending to be a fellow British agent. Grant drugs Romanova and attempts to kill Bond, but fails: instead Bond kills Grant. Bond is then nearly killed by Colonel Rosa Klebb, one of the SMERSH planners, before he manages to capture her. [16]
Dr. No
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 31 March 1958 256 pp Commander John Strangways, the head of MI6 Station J in Kingston, Jamaica, and his secretary both disappear and Bond is sent to investigate the matter. Bond finds they had been investigating the activities of Dr. Julius No, a reclusive Chinese-German who lives on Crab Key and runs a guano mine. Bond suspects a connection to the disappearances and, with the assistance of his old friend Quarrel, Bond visits Crab Key. He is captured by Dr. No and establishes that No has been sabotaging American missile tests at nearby Cape Canaveral. Bond escapes and kills No. [17]
Goldfinger
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 23 March 1959 318 pp Bond investigates the activities of Auric Goldfinger, a gold smuggler who M suspects of being connected to SMERSH and financing their western networks with his gold. Bond is captured by Goldfinger and forced to work as a secretary to oversee "Operation Grand Slam", the stealing of the United States gold reserves from Fort Knox. Bond manages to alert the US authorities through his friend, Felix Leiter, and the plot is foiled. [18]
For Your Eyes Only
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 11 April 1960 252 pp "From a View to a Kill" Bond investigates the murder of a motorcycle dispatch-rider and the theft of his top-secret documents by a motorcycle-riding assassin.
 "For Your Eyes Only" Bond avenges the murder of M's closest friends.
 "Quantum of Solace" Bond is told a story of a failed marriage with an emotive twist.
 "Risico" Bond investigates a drug-smuggling operation run by the Russians.
 "The Hildebrand Rarity" Bond helps find a rare fish for an obnoxious millionaire who is subsequently murdered. [19]
Thunderball
Ian Fleming[nb 1] Jonathan Cape 27 March 1961 253 pp An international, non-aligned terrorist organisation, SPECTRE, have hijacked a NATO plane and seized its two nuclear bombs, which it uses to blackmail the western world. Bond is sent to the Bahamas, where he joins forces with Felix Leiter. Bond meets "Domino" Vitali, the sister of the pilot whose bombs were stolen, who is also the mistress of a wealthy treasure hunter, Emilio Largo. Bond and Leiter suspect Largo and, using a nuclear submarine, track him to the bombs: whilst the submarine's crew fight Largo's crew, Bond battles with Largo and is overpowered, but before Largo can finish Bond off, Domino shoots him with a spear gun. [20]
The Spy Who Loved Me
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 16 April 1962 221 pp A young woman is alone, working at a motel when two thugs, hired by the owner, turn up to burn it down for the insurance. They are about to rape the woman when Bond turns up and stops them. Later that night, Bond is attacked, but kills both the thugs. [21]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 1 April 1963 288 pp Bond continues to search for Ernst Stavro Blofeld after the Thunderball incident. Through contact with the College of Arms in London Bond finds Blofeld based in Switzerland with a co-conspirator, Irma Bunt. After meeting him and discovering his latest plans, Bond attacks the centre where he is based, although Blofeld escapes in the confusion. Bond meets and falls in love with Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo during the story and the pair marry, but Blofeld kills Bond's new wife hours after the ceremony. [22]
You Only Live Twice
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 16 March 1964 255 pp After the murder of his wife, Bond begins to let his life slide. M gives him a last chance of redemption, to persuade the Japanese to share radio transmissions captured from the Soviet Union. The Japanese agree, but only if Bond kills Dr. Guntram Shatterhand, who operates a politically embarrassing "Garden of Death" in an ancient castle. Bond recognises Shatterhand and his wife as Blofeld and Bunt and he infiltrates their castle. He kills Blofeld and escapes, although is injured as the castle explodes; his injury leaves him with amnesia and he lives as a Japanese fisherman until he travels to Russia to find out about his past. [23]
The Man with the Golden Gun
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 1 April 1965 221 pp Bond returns to London having been brainwashed by the Russians and assigned to kill M: the attempt ends in failure. To re-prove his worth, M sends him to Jamaica with the seemingly impossible mission of killing Francisco "Pistols" Scaramanga, a Cuban assassin who is believed to have killed several British secret agents. Bond uncovers a larger plot to de-stabilise the region using KGB support and, having killed the American gangsters and KGB representative, also completes his mission with the killing of Scaramanga. [24]
Octopussy and The Living Daylights
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 23 June 1966 94 pp The first edition contained only two stories: "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights"; subsequent editions have also contained "The Property of a Lady" and "007 in New York".
"Octopussy" Bond tracks down a World War II hero who had murdered his friend to steal a cache of Nazi gold.
 "The Living Daylights" Bond is assigned sniper duty, but when he sees the sniper is a beautiful woman, he shoots the butt of her rifle instead of killing her.
 "The Property of a Lady" Bond visits Sotheby's to identify a KGB agent.
 "007 in New York" Bond warns a female MI6 employee that her new boyfriend is a KGB agent.
 [25]

Short stories[edit]
In the summer of 1958, the CBS television network commissioned Fleming to write episodes of a television show based on the James Bond character. This deal came about after the success of the 1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale as an episode of the CBS television series Climax![26] Fleming agreed to the deal, and began to write outlines for the series; however, CBS later dropped the idea.[27] In January and February 1959 Fleming adapted four of the television plots into short stories and added a fifth story he had written in the summer of 1958.[28] The stories were originally titled The Rough with the Smooth, although this was changed to For Your Eyes Only for publication, which included the subtitle Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond.[26]
After Fleming's death, a second collection featuring two short stories was released, Octopussy and The Living Daylights.[29] When the paperback edition of the book was published, "The Property of a Lady" was also included[30] and, by 2002, "007 in New York" had been added to the book by Penguin Books.[31]
James Bond short stories

Title
Earliest publication
Date
Ref.

"From a View to a Kill"
Daily Express (as "James Bond and the Murder Before Breakfast") 21 – 25 September 1959 [32]
"Quantum of Solace"
Cosmopolitan May 1959 [33]
"The Hildebrand Rarity"
Playboy March 1960 [34]
"For Your Eyes Only"
For Your Eyes Only 11 April 1960 
"Risico"
Daily Express (as "The Double Take") 11 – 15 April 1960 [35]
"The Living Daylights"[nb 2]
The Sunday Times colour supplement 4 February 1962 [37]
"007 in New York"[nb 3]
New York Herald Tribune October 1963 [41]
"The Property of a Lady"
The Ivory Hammer (Sotheby's annual) November 1963 [40]
"Octopussy"
Posthumously serialised in Daily Express 4 – 8 October 1965 [42]
Fictional chronologies[edit]
Independent scholar John Griswold constructed a "high-level chronology of James Bond's life", based on the logic of depicted events and actual time periods referred to in the books.[43][nb 4] This chronology differs from the publication sequence.[44] Griswold also deliberately discounts the chronological significance of actual historic events mentioned in the novels and stories, arguing that Fleming made such references for effect without synchronising them accurately to his fiction.[45] Fellow Bond-scholar Henry Chancellor also worked through the Bond chronology, which broadly agrees with Griswold, although there are differences. Chancellor noted that "Fleming was always vague about dates", although the novels are supposed to be set in order of publication.[46]
Bond chronologies

Episode
Griswold chronology[47]
Chancellor chronology[48]



Casino Royale
May to July 1951, or May to July 1952 1951
Live and Let Die
January to February 1952 1952
Moonraker
May 1953 1953
Diamonds Are Forever
July to 1 August 1953 1954
From Russia, with Love
June to August 1954 1955
Dr. No
February to March 1956 1956
Goldfinger
April to June 1957 1957
"Risico"
October 1957 October 1957
"Quantum of Solace"
February 1958 October 1957
"The Hildebrand Rarity"
April 1958 April 1958
"From a View to a Kill"
May 1958 May 1958
"For Your Eyes Only"
September to October 1958 October 1958
Thunderball
May to June 1959 1959
"Octopussy"
June 1960 1960
"The Living Daylights"
September to October 1960 October 1959
"The Property of a Lady"
June 1961 June 1961
Chapters 1–5 of On Her Majesty's Secret Service
September 1961 1961
"007 in New York"
end of September 1961 1961
Chapters 10–15 of The Spy Who Loved Me[nb 5]
October 1961 1960
Chapters 6–20 of On Her Majesty's Secret Service
November 1961 to 1 January 1962 1961 to 1 January 1962
You Only Live Twice
August 1962 to April 1963 1962–1963
The Man With the Golden Gun
November 1963 to February 1964 1963

Post-Fleming James Bond novels[edit]
1968–79[edit]
Following Fleming's death in 1964, Glidrose Productions, publishers of the James Bond novels and since renamed Ian Fleming Publications, approached author James Leasor to write a continuation novel, but he declined.[50] Glidrose then commissioned Kingsley Amis, who, under the pseudonym of "Robert Markham", wrote Colonel Sun, which was published on 28 March 1968.[30]
In 1973, Glidrose permitted publication of John Pearson's fictional biography of Bond entitled James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007. This book, written in the first person, posits that Bond was a real person about whom Ian Fleming wrote a series of adventures. This is the only Bond work where the author shares copyright with Glidrose.
In 1977, the Eon Productions film The Spy Who Loved Me was released and, due to the radical differences between the film and the original novel of the same name, Eon productions authorised a novelization, James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me. The 1979 film Moonraker was also produced in novel form, as James Bond and Moonraker; both books were written by screenwriter Christopher Wood.[51]

Title
Author
Publisher
Date
Length (first edition)
Plot
Ref.



Colonel Sun
Kingsley Amis, as Robert Markham Jonathan Cape March 1968 255 pp M is kidnapped and Bond follows the trail to a Greek Aegean island, where he, and Ariadne Alexandrou, a Greek Communist agent, plan to rescue him. M is held by Colonel Sun, a member of the Chinese People's Liberation Army who is in league with a former Nazi, Von Ritcher. Bond battles them both with the help of Ariadne and a friend of her father. [52]
James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007
John Pearson Sidgwick & Jackson 1973 317 pp A fictional biography. Pearson begins the story with his own discovery that James Bond exists; MI6 had assigned Ian Fleming to write novels based upon the real agent. MI6 instruct Pearson to write 007's biography; he is introduced to a retired James Bond — who is in his fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, and with Honeychile Ryder, the heroine of Dr. No. Bond tells his life story to Pearson; this includes the death of Bond's parents, his first MI6 missions and Bond's own reaction to Fleming's books and the films about his adventures. [53]
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (novelization)
Christopher Wood Jonathan Cape July 1977 222 pp A novelization of The Spy Who Loved Me. Bond investigates the disappearance of British, American and Soviet ballistic-missile submarines, with the help of KGB agent Major Anya Amasova. The pair identify the culprit as Sigmund Stromberg, a shipping tycoon, scientist and anarchist, whom they battle and beat in his undersea Atlantis base. [54]
James Bond and Moonraker (novelization)
Christopher Wood Jonathan Cape 1979 221 pp A novelization of Moonraker. Bond investigates the theft of a Space Shuttle, leading him to Hugo Drax, the owner of the shuttle's manufacturing firm. Along with space scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the trail into outer space to prevent a plot to wipe out the world population and to re-create humanity with a master race. [54]

1979–96: John Gardner[edit]
In the 1980s, the Bond series was initially revived with new novels by John Gardner, although initially he almost turned the series down.[55] Between 1981 and 1996, Gardner went on to write sixteen Bond books in total; two of the books he wrote – Licence to Kill and GoldenEye – were novelizations of Eon Productions films of the same name. Gardner stated that he wanted "to bring Mr Bond into the 1980s",[56] although he retained the ages of the characters as they were when Fleming had left them.[57] Even though Gardner kept the ages the same, he made Bond grey at the temples as a nod to the passing of the years.[58] In 1996, Gardner retired from writing James Bond books due to ill health.[59] With the influence of the American publishers, Putnam's, the Gardner novels showed an increase in the number of Americanisms used in the book, such as a waiter wearing "pants", rather than trousers, in The Man from Barbarossa.[60] James Harker, writing in The Guardian, considered that the Gardner books were "dogged by silliness",[60] giving examples of Scorpius, where much of the action is set in Chippenham, and Win, Lose or Die, where "Bond gets chummy with an unconvincing Maggie Thatcher".[60]

Title
Author
Publisher
Date
Length (first edition)
Plot
Ref.



Licence Renewed
John Gardner Jonathan Cape May 1981 272 pp Bond infiltrates the castle of Dr. Anton Murik, a nuclear physicist who is involved with a terrorist named Franco. Murik hired Franco to hijack six nuclear power stations in order to start a meltdown, but the terrorists are prevented from doing so by Bond who, posing as Murik, orders them to abort. [61]
For Special Services
John Gardner Jonathan Cape September 1982 256 pp Bond teams up with CIA agent Cedar Leiter, daughter of Felix, to investigate Markus Bismaquer, who is suspected of reviving SPECTRE. Bond establishes SPECTRE are to take over the NORAD headquarters in order to gain control of America's military space satellite network. Bond foils the plot and finds that Bismaquer's wife, Nena, is the daughter of Blofeld and the head of SPECTRE. [62]
Icebreaker
John Gardner Jonathan Cape July 1983 256 pp Bond is teamed with an alliance of agents from the CIA, the KGB and Mossad to find and stop leader of the National Socialist Action Army (NSAA), Count Konrad von Glöda, an ex-Nazi SS officer who now perceives himself as the new Adolf Hitler. [63]
Role of Honour
John Gardner Jonathan Cape October 1984 224 pp Bond is sacked from MI6 to go undercover and is subsequently hired by SPECTRE. He joins Jay Autem Holy, a SPECTRE agent and becomes involved in a plot to destabilise the Soviet Union and the United States, by forcing them to rid the world of their nuclear weapons: a plot he foils with the help of Miss 'Percy' Proud, a CIA agent. [64]
Nobody Lives for Ever
John Gardner Jonathan Cape June 1986 192 pp A price is put on Bond's head by Tamil Rahani, the current leader of SPECTRE, who is dying from wounds received in Role of Honour. Bond's housekeeper, May, and Moneypenny are both missing and Bond attempts to find them whilst avoiding the assassins who are attempting to kill him. [65]
No Deals, Mr. Bond
John Gardner Jonathan Cape May 1987 224 pp Two women, previously connected to a Cold War mission, are brutally murdered. Bond is subsequently sent by M, "off the record", to find the remaining members of the mission before they suffer the same fate. [66]
Scorpius
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton July 1988 224 pp Bond is threatened by a cult known as "The Meek Ones", who commit several acts of terrorism including multiple bombings and several assassinations of British politicians. Bond establishes the man behind the cult is an arms dealer, Vladimir Scorpius, who Bond locates and kills. [67]
Win, Lose or Die
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton 1989 220 pp The Brotherhood of Anarchy and Secret Terrorism infiltrate and destroy a top-secret British Royal Navy aircraft carrier-based summit between American President George H. W. Bush, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Russian Premier Mikhail Gorbachev: Bond breaks their hijack and rescues the three leaders. [68]
Licence to Kill (novelization)
John Gardner Coronet Books 1989 224 pp A novelization of Licence to Kill. Drugs lord Franz Sanchez is caught by Bond and Felix Leiter, but escapes and ambush Leiter and his wife Della: Leiter is maimed by a shark as Della is raped and killed. M orders Bond to a mission in Istanbul but Bond refuses and he is suspended and his 00 licence is revoked. Bond sets out on a revenge mission against Sanchez, surreptitiously helped by MI6 armourer Q. [69]
Brokenclaw
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton July 1990 192 pp Bond investigates Brokenclaw, a half-Blackfoot, half-Chinese philanthropist and economic terrorist who is trying to start a worldwide economic collapse by attacking the main global currencies. Bond is challenged by Brokenclaw to a torture ritual known as o-kee-pa and kills him using bow and arrows. [70]
The Man from Barbarossa
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton August 1991 231 pp Bond teams up with Mossad, the French Secret Service and the KGB to infiltrate a Russian terrorist group called the "Scales of Justice" who are attempting to supply Iraq with nuclear weapons before the United Nations-led coalition invades. [71]
Death is Forever
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton July 1992 224 pp James Bond and CIA agent Elizabeth Zara "Easy" St. John are assigned to track down the surviving members of "Cabal", a Cold War-era intelligence network that received a mysterious and unauthorised signal to disband. [72]
Never Send Flowers
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton July 1993 256 pp Bond investigates the murder of a member of the Secret Service and connects the death to four political assassinations that take place within a week. Bond discovers a link with a former actor, David Dragonpol, who is responsible for the deaths. [73]
SeaFire
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton August 1994 247 pp Bond investigates Max Tarn, a billionaire business tycoon who is determined to reunite Germany under a new Fourth Reich. Tarn is also involved in eco-terrorism with a massive oil spill fire in Puerto Rico. Bond averts the ecological damage and kills Tarn. [74]
GoldenEye (novelization)
John Gardner Coronet Books October 1995 218 pp A novelization of GoldenEye. Nine years after a mission which saw the death of his colleague 006, Bond investigates the theft of a prototype Eurocopter Tiger helicopter and its subsequent use in the attack on the Russian command bunker that controls the GoldenEye satellite weapon. Bond finds the crime syndicate behind the theft and attack is run by 006, who is trying to destroy London's financial centre which will cover a large-scale bank theft. [69]
COLD
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton May 1996 264 pp The crash of a Boeing 747-400 at Dulles International Airport and the supposed death of Bond's friend and former lover, the Principessa Sukie Tempesta leads Bond on a personal revenge mission that uncovers a fanatical society, COLD: the Children of the Last Days. [75]

1996–2002: Raymond Benson[edit]

a bearded man with glasses, wearing a grey jumper, sitting on a sofa

Raymond Benson, continuation Bond author
In 1996, American author Raymond Benson became the writer of the Bond novels. Benson had previously written The James Bond Bedside Companion, first published in 1984.[76] By the time he moved on to other, non-Bond related projects in 2002, Benson had written six Bond novels, three novelizations and three short stories.[77] Benson followed Gardner's pattern of setting Bond in the contemporary timeframe of the 1990s[78] and, according to academic Jeremy Black, had more echoes of Fleming's style than John Gardner.[79] Benson also changed Bond's gun back to the Walther PPK,[80] put him behind the wheel of a Jaguar XK8[81] and made him swear more,[82] which led Black to note that there was an increased level of crudity lacking in either Fleming or Gardner.[79] However, commenting in The Australian, Peter Janson-Smith, Fleming's former literary agent, noted that Benson "has got the Fleming feel ... It's as close to Fleming as I have seen."[83] The Peterborough Evening Telegraph agreed, stating that with Benson's 007, in keeping more with Fleming, "PC-ness goes out the window and it's a more ruthless Bond with bad habits."[84] The Sunday Mercury in 1999 said, "Benson has made Bond less gimmicky, concentrating on the action rather than the gadgets. The result is a slick enough read for dedicated Bond fans who like blazing guns (Walthers, of course) and beautiful women"[85] and Kirkus Reviews called Benson's 007 "a chip off the old block and, if not a gilt-edged Bond, at least a double-A."[86]



Title
Author
Publisher
Date
Length (first edition)
Plot
Ref.



"Blast From the Past" (short story)
Raymond Benson Playboy January 1997 — Bond receives a message, apparently from James Suzuki, his son, asking him to come to New York City on a matter of urgency. When Bond arrives, he finds his son murdered. He learns that James was killed in revenge by Irma Bunt for the murder of Blofeld. Bond meets and kills Bunt. [80]
Zero Minus Ten
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton April 1997 259 pp Ten days before Britain returns Hong Kong, a series of terrorist attacks occur. Bond establishes that behind them is wealthy shipping magnate Guy Thackeray, whose company is taken over by the Chinese. By way of revenge, Thackeray plans to detonate a nuclear weapon in Hong Kong: Bond disarms the bomb and kills Thackeray. [87]
Tomorrow Never Dies (novelization)
Raymond Benson Coronet Books November 1997 213 pp A novelization of Tomorrow Never Dies. Bond investigates media baron Elliot Carver, who is trying to create news by causing a war between Britain and China, which would also allow him broadcasting rights in China. Bond joins forces with Wai Lin, a Chinese agent, to defeat Carver and avoid war. [88]
The Facts of Death
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton May 1998 284 pp Sinister organisation The Decada are behind a series of poisonings aimed at British and Turkish military personnel. Bond tracks the head of the organisation to Greece where he is trying to cause a war between Greece and Turkey, which Bond stops. [89]
"Midsummer Night's Doom" (short story)
Raymond Benson Playboy January 1999 9 pp Bond attends a party at Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, California where Ministry of Defence secrets are expected to be sold to a representative of the Russian Mafia. [82]
High Time to Kill
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton May 1999 304 pp A top secret British formula hidden in microfilm, codenamed "Skin 17" was stolen by two traitors who plan to sell it to the terrorist organisation "The Union". The microfilm is on a plane that crashes in the Himalayas and Bond climbs Mount Kangchenjunga to retrieve it. He battles a traitor in the climbing team, but retrieves the secret. [90]
"Live at Five" (short story)
Raymond Benson TV Guide (American edition) November 1999 — On the way to a date with a female television news reporter, 007 recalls how he once helped a Russian figure skating champion defect in full view of television cameras. [91]
The World Is Not Enough (novelization)
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton November 1999 200 pp A novelization of The World Is Not Enough. Bond is tasked with protecting Elektra King after the murder of her father inside the MI6 building. Bond establishes a connection between her head of security and the international terrorist Renard, who is stealing plutonium in order to destroy Istanbul on behalf of Elektra. Bond kills both Renard and Elektra. [88]
DoubleShot
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton May 2000 320 pp After he foiled their plans, terrorist organisation The Union target Bond with a plan to plunge Britain into war and destroy Bond's reputation in the process by having a Bond double kill the British Prime Minister and the Governor of Gibraltar. Bond uncovers the plan and kills the double, preventing the assassinations. [92]
Never Dream of Dying
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton November 2001 320 pp Bond is again in the hunt for The Union and is chasing Le Gerant, the Blind head of the organisation. After a police raid goes wrong René Mathis goes after Le Gerant, followed by Bond. [93]
The Man with the Red Tattoo
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton May 2002 320 pp Bond is in Japan to protect the prime minister at a conference and to investigate mysterious deaths in the McMahon family, who ran pharmaceutical giant CureLab. Bond reunites with Tiger Tanaka to pursue terrorist Goro Yoshida who is using biological weapons to punish Western society and plots an end to western domination. Bond kills him and negates any threats. [94]
Die Another Day (novelization)
Raymond Benson Coronet Books November 2002 245 pp A novelization of Die Another Day. Bond investigates the North Korean Colonel Tan-Sun Moon and tracks his assistant Zao to clinic where his appearance is altered. Bond finds diamonds on Zao bearing the crest of British billionaire Gustav Graves and establishes Graves is the facially-reconstructed Moon, who is attempting to reunite North and South Korea by force, which Bond stops, killing Moon in the process. [88]

2003–[edit]

a bearded man with an open-necked white shirt

Sebastian Faulks, author of Devil May Care
Glidrose twice approached Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novels, about writing a Bond novel but he turned them down.[95] Ian Fleming Publications then commissioned Sebastian Faulks to write a continuation novel, which was released on 28 May 2008, the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth.[96] The book—titled Devil May Care—was published in the UK by Penguin Books and by Doubleday in the US.[97] Faulks ignored the timeframe established by Gardner and Benson and instead reverted to that used by Fleming and Amis, basing his novel in the 1960s;[78] he also managed to use a number of the cultural touchstones of the sixties in the book.[98] Faulks was true to Bond's original character and background too, and provided "a Flemingesque hero"[78] who drove a battleship grey 1967 T-series Bentley.[81]
American writer Jeffery Deaver was then commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to produce Carte Blanche, which was published on 26 May 2011.[99] The book updated Bond working for a post-9/11 agency, independent of MI5 or MI6.[100] On 26 September 2013 the novel Solo, by William Boyd was published in the UK and by HarperCollins in Canada and the US; the book was once again be set in the 1960s.[101][102]



Title
Author
Publisher
Date
Length (first edition)
Plot
Ref.



Devil May Care
Sebastian Faulks Penguin May 2008 295 pp Bond investigates Julius Gorner, a businessman who is producing heroin that threatens England, as well as wanting to attack the Soviets, who will retaliate against Britain. Bond foils the plot and kills Gorner. [97]
Carte Blanche
Jeffery Deaver Hodder & Stoughton May 2011 448 pp Bond investigates the activities of Severan Hydt, a waste-disposal magnate. Hydt had been tasked by an American pharmaceutical company to detonate a device at a British university to kill a researcher who was on the verge of creating a drug to cure cancer. Bond foiled the plot and a second plot to use food aid to give the Sudanese government a pretext to go to war with rebels and prevent Southern Sudan from seceding. [100]
Solo
William Boyd Jonathan Cape September 2013 336 pp Bond tries to stop a civil war in the fictional country of Zanzarim. Although the civil war finishes without Bond's help, he is shot and left for dead by a mercenary, Kobus Breed and Efua Blessing Ogilvy-Grant, who Bond thought was the MI6 representative in the country. Bond traces the pair to the USA, and goes on a revenge mission to kill them; he is picked up by the CIA who inform him Ogilvy-Grant is a CIA operative. He meets Ogilvy-Grant, who informs him that she shot to wound, not kill. Bond traces Breed, who has been smuggling heroin into the country. [102]

Young Bond[edit]

a smiling man wearing glasses faces the camera

Charlie Higson, author of the Young Bond series
The Young Bond series of novels was started by Charlie Higson[103] and, between 2005 and 2009, five novels and one short story were published.[104] The first Young Bond novel, SilverFin was also adapted and released as a graphic novel on 2 October 2008 by Puffin Books.[105] Comic book artist Kev Walker illustrated Higson's novel.[106] Young Bond is set in the 1930s, which would fit the chronology with that of Fleming.[107]




I deliberately steered clear of anything post Fleming. My books are designed to fit in with what Fleming wrote and nothing else. I also didn't want to be influenced by any of the other books ... for now my Bible is Fleming.
Charlie Higson[108]
Higson stated that he was instructed by the Fleming estate to ignore all other interpretations of Bond, except the original Fleming version.[109] As the background to Bond's childhood, Higson used Bond's obituary in You Only Live Twice as well as his own and Fleming's childhoods.[110] In forming the early Bond character, Higson created the origins of some of Bond's character traits, including his love of cars and fine wine.[109]
In October 2013 Ian Fleming Publications announced that Stephen Cole would continue the series, with the first edition scheduled to be released in Autumn 2014.[111] The title was later confirmed as Shoot to Kill with a release date of 6 November 2014, and it was further confirmed that Cole will be credited as Steve Cole for the release.[112]



Title
Author
Publisher
Date
Length (first edition)
Plot
Ref.



SilverFin
Charlie Higson Puffin Books March 2005 372 pp Bond meets Lord Randolph Hellebore, an arms dealer and father of fellow Etonian George Hellebore; Hellebore has a castle near to Bond's new home in Scotland and, whilst on holiday, Bond investigates the disappearance of local boy Alfie Kelly. Bond soon finds out that Hellebore is involved in creating a pill to create better and stronger soldiers by manipulating the endocrine system and had tested this pill on Alfie, but that Alfie had died. With help, Bond brings an end to the tests. [113]
Blood Fever
Charlie Higson Puffin Books January 2006 384 pp Whilst on a school trip to Sardinia, Bond comes up against the Millenaria, a secret Italian society that has plans to restore the Roman Empire. Bond meets Count Ugo Carnifex, the head of the Millenaria who tortures him by using mosquitoes. Bond escapes, rescuing the sister of a fellow Etonian in the process and Carnifex's castle is destroyed by an embittered employee. [114]
Double or Die
Charlie Higson Puffin Books January 2007 389 pp A master from Eton is kidnapped and sends a letter back to his boys with cryptic clues about his kidnap. Bond's room mate Pritpal Nandra solves most of the clues whilst Bond and fellow school friend Perry Mandeville go in search of the missing master. Bond finds the master, who has been kidnapped by the Russians in order to build a prototype computer and, with help, manages to rescue him. [115]
Hurricane Gold
Charlie Higson Puffin Books September 2007 372 pp Bond is on holiday with his aunt when the house in which he is staying is violently burgled and two children are kidnapped. Bond give chase and is captured, but convinces them he is a local street thug and they allow him to join the gang. One of the children is ill and a villain has a change of heart and smuggles him away to a local hospital: Bond eventually rescues the second child. The pair then chase the one remaining gangster to an island retreat for villains where Bond runs La Avenida de Muerte in order to escape. [116]
By Royal Command
Charlie Higson Puffin Books September 2008 354 pp Bond travels to Kitzbühel, Austria on an Eton school trip, but is under surveillance for the journey. On his return to Eton Bond foils a plot to assassinate King George V. Still under surveillance, Bond falls in love with a communist maid at Eton and they are eventually forced to flee back to Austria, from where the plot originated. [117]
SilverFin
Charlie Higson & Kevin Walker Puffin Books October 2008 155 pp The graphic novel of SilverFin: Bond battles Lord Randolph Hellebore and stops Hellebore's research into creating mutant soldiers; he also finds out the fate of a missing local boy in the process—killed during the testing process of Hellebore's drug. [118]
"A Hard Man to Kill" (short story)
Charlie Higson Puffin Books October 2009 64 pp Bond and his Aunt Charmian are travelling back from the Caribbean on the SS Colombie but come across a villain named Emil Lefebvre and a mysterious hooded convict named Caiboche. [119]
Shoot to Kill
Steve Cole Random House November 2014 TBA TBA [120]

References[edit]
Notes
1.Jump up ^ Based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and Fleming
2.Jump up ^ Fleming originally titled "The Living Daylights" as "Trigger Finger",[36] although when it first appeared, in the The Sunday Times colour supplement of 4 February 1962,[37] it was under the title of "The Living Daylights".[38] It was also published in June 1962 issue of the American magazine Argosy under the name "Berlin Escape".[39]
3.Jump up ^ Originally titled "Reflections in a Carey Cadillac",[40] it was changed to "Agent 007 in New York" for publication in the New York Herald Tribune but was subsequently renamed as "007 in New York" for the 1964 US editions of Thrilling Cities.[41]
4.Jump up ^ Griswold's work, Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories, is classed as an approved reference book by Ian Fleming Publications, the family company of Ian Fleming and holders of the copyright to all Fleming's works. The work has been accepted by Raymond Benson, continuation author of Bond novels from 1997 to 2003 and writer of The James Bond Bedside Companion as a serious source and has been cited in academic works, such as Biddulph, Edward "Bond Was Not a Gourmet": An Archaeology of James Bond's Diet Source: Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Volume 12, Number 2, June 2009.
5.Jump up ^ James Bond is entirely absent from chapters 1–9 of The Spy Who Loved Me, the events of which extend back some years, overlapping in time with much of the earlier Bond fiction. Bond does not appear until chapter 10, whereupon and thereafter he figures as a central character.[49]
Footnotes
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Lycett, Andrew. "Fleming, Ian Lancaster (1908–1964) (subscription needed)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press). doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33168. Retrieved 3 December 2011. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
2.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 4.
3.Jump up ^ "Ian Fleming". About Ian Fleming. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
4.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 4.
5.Jump up ^ Lycett 1996, p. 226.
6.^ Jump up to: a b Lycett 1996, p. 244.
7.^ Jump up to: a b "The great Bond cover up". guardian.co.uk. 8 May 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
8.Jump up ^ Lindner 2009, p. 14.
9.Jump up ^ Caplen 2010, p. 21.
10.Jump up ^ Macintyre, Ben (5 April 2008). "Bond – the real Bond". The Times. p. 36.
11.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 75.
12.Jump up ^ "Casino Royale". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
13.Jump up ^ "Live and Let Die". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
14.Jump up ^ "Moonraker". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
15.Jump up ^ "Diamonds are Forever". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
16.Jump up ^ "From Russia, with Love". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
17.Jump up ^ "Dr. No". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
18.Jump up ^ "Goldfinger". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
19.Jump up ^ "For Your Eyes Only". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
20.Jump up ^ "Thunderball". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
21.Jump up ^ "The Spy Who Loved Me". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
22.Jump up ^ "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
23.Jump up ^ "You Only Live Twice". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
24.Jump up ^ "The Man with the Golden Gun". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
25.Jump up ^ "Octopussy and The Living Daylights". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
26.^ Jump up to: a b Benson 1988, p. 17.
27.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 146.
28.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 18.
29.Jump up ^ Lycett 1996, p. 445.
30.^ Jump up to: a b Benson 1988, p. 31.
31.Jump up ^ "Octopussy & The living daylights / Ian Fleming". The British Library Catalogue. British Library. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
32.Jump up ^ Gilbert 2012, p. 268.
33.Jump up ^ Gilbert 2012, p. 288.
34.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 149.
35.Jump up ^ Gilbert 2012, p. 269.
36.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 241.
37.^ Jump up to: a b Lycett 1996, p. 396.
38.Jump up ^ Fleming, Ian (4 February 1962). "The Living Daylights". The Sunday Times (London). p. 23 (S).
39.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 24.
40.^ Jump up to: a b Chancellor 2005, p. 240.
41.^ Jump up to: a b Griswold 2006, p. 381.
42.Jump up ^ Gilbert 2012, p. 443.
43.Jump up ^ Griswold 2006, pp. 2–13.
44.Jump up ^ Griswold 2006, p. 2.
45.Jump up ^ Griswold 2006, p. 6.
46.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 98.
47.Jump up ^ Griswold 2006, p. 13.
48.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 98-99.
49.Jump up ^ Griswold 2006, pp. 350–352.
50.Jump up ^ "Obituary: James Leasor". The Times. 22 September 2007. p. 77.
51.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 223.
52.Jump up ^ "Colonel Sun". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
53.Jump up ^ "John Pearson". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
54.^ Jump up to: a b "Christopher Wood". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
55.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 58.
56.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 185.
57.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 61.
58.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 149.
59.Jump up ^ Ripley, Mike (2 November 2007). "Obituary: John Gardner: Prolific thriller writer behind the revival of James Bond and Professor Moriarty". The Guardian. p. 41. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
60.^ Jump up to: a b c Harker, James (2 June 2011). "James Bond's changing incarnations". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
61.Jump up ^ "Licence Renewed". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
62.Jump up ^ "For Special Services". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
63.Jump up ^ "Ice Breaker". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
64.Jump up ^ "Role Of Honour". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
65.Jump up ^ "Nobody Lives Forever". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
66.Jump up ^ "No Deals Mr Bond". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
67.Jump up ^ "Scorpius". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
68.Jump up ^ "Win, Lose Or Die". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
69.^ Jump up to: a b "John Gardner (1926 – 2007)". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
70.Jump up ^ "Brokenclaw". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
71.Jump up ^ "The Man From Barbarossa". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
72.Jump up ^ "Death is Forever". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 12 July 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
73.Jump up ^ "Never Send Flowers". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
74.Jump up ^ "Seafire". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
75.Jump up ^ "Cold". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
76.Jump up ^ Raymond Benson. "Books—At a Glance". RaymondBenson.com. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
77.Jump up ^ "Raymond Benson". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
78.^ Jump up to: a b c Dugdale, John (29 May 2011). "Spy another day". The Sunday Times. p. 40.
79.^ Jump up to: a b Black 2005, p. 198.
80.^ Jump up to: a b Simpson 2002, p. 62.
81.^ Jump up to: a b Davis, Kylie (23 November 2007). "A Bond with the devil". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 8.
82.^ Jump up to: a b Simpson 2002, p. 63.
83.Jump up ^ Hamilton, Sebastian (8 October 1996). "Bond reverts to type". The Australian.
84.Jump up ^ Crampton, Tracey (26 April 1997). "Review: Zero Minus Ten". Peterborough Evening Telegraph.
85.Jump up ^ Williamson, Richard (13 June 1999). "Book reviews: Latest novel maintains 007's licence to thrill". Sunday Mercury. p. 40.
86.Jump up ^ "Zero Minus Ten". Kirkus Reviews. 1 April 1997.
87.Jump up ^ "Zero Minus Ten". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
88.^ Jump up to: a b c "About Raymond". Retrieved 14 November 2012.
89.Jump up ^ "The Facts of Death". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
90.Jump up ^ "High Time To Kill". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
91.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 64.
92.Jump up ^ "Doubleshot". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
93.Jump up ^ "Never Dream Of Dying". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
94.Jump up ^ "The Man With The Red Tattoo". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
95.Jump up ^ Sachs, Andrea (11 June 2007). "Q&A Author Lee Child". Time. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
96.Jump up ^ "Faulks pens new James Bond novel". BBC News. 11 July 2007. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
97.^ Jump up to: a b "Sebastian Faulks". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
98.Jump up ^ Weisman, John (22 June 2008). "Close to 007 original, but not quite". The Washington Times.
99.Jump up ^ "James Bond book called Carte Blanche". BBC News. 17 January 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
100.^ Jump up to: a b "Carte Blanche". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
101.Jump up ^ "William Boyd takes James Bond back to 1960s in new 007 novel". BBC News (London). BBC. 12 April 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
102.^ Jump up to: a b "Solo". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
103.Jump up ^ Smith, Neil (3 March 2005). "The name's Bond – Junior Bond". BBC News. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
104.Jump up ^ "Charlie Higson". Puffin Books – Authors. Penguin Books. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
105.Jump up ^ "SilverFin: The Graphic Novel". Puffin Books. Penguin Books. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
106.Jump up ^ "SilverFin The Graphic Novel released in UK". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
107.Jump up ^ "Young Bond books". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
108.Jump up ^ Cox, John. "The Charlie Higson CBn Interview". CommanderBond.net. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
109.^ Jump up to: a b Turner, Janice (31 December 2005). "Man and boy". The Times. p. 14.
110.Jump up ^ Malvern, Jack. "Shaken and stirred: the traumatic boyhood of James Bond". The Times. p. 26.
111.Jump up ^ "New Young Bond Series in 2014". Ian Fleming Publications. 9 October 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
112.Jump up ^ "New Young Bond Title and Cover Art Revealed". The Book Bond. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
113.Jump up ^ "Young Bond: SilverFin". Puffin Books: Charlie Higson. Penguin Books. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
114.Jump up ^ "Young Bond: Blood Fever". Puffin Books: Charlie Higson. Penguin Books. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
115.Jump up ^ "Young Bond: Double or Die". Puffin Books: Charlie Higson. Penguin Books. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
116.Jump up ^ "Young Bond: Hurricane Gold". Puffin Books: Charlie Higson. Penguin Books. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
117.Jump up ^ "Young Bond: By Royal Command". Puffin Books: Charlie Higson. Penguin Books. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
118.Jump up ^ "SilverFin: The Graphic Novel". Puffin Books: Charlie Higson. Penguin Books. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
119.Jump up ^ "Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier". Puffin Books Australia. Penguin Books. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
120.Jump up ^ "New Young Bond Title and Cover Art Revealed". The Book Bond. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
Bibliography[edit]
Benson, Raymond (1988). The James Bond Bedside Companion. London: Boxtree Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85283-233-9.
Black, Jeremy (2005). The Politics of James Bond: from Fleming's Novel to the Big Screen. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
Caplen, Robert (2010). Shaken & Stirred: The Feminism of James Bond. Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4535-1282-1.
Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bond: The Man and His World. London: John Murray. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-2.
Gilbert, Jon (2012). Ian Fleming: The Bibliography. London: Queen Anne Press. ISBN 978-0-9558189-6-7.
Griswold, John (2006). Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations And Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-4259-3100-1.
Lindner, Christoph (2009). The James Bond Phenomenon: a Critical Reader. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-6541-5.
Lycett, Andrew (1996). Ian Fleming. London: Phoenix. ISBN 978-1-85799-783-5.
Simpson, Paul (2002). The Rough Guide to James Bond. Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-84353-142-5.
External links[edit]
Penguin007.com Official website for Devil May Care and the 2008 Centenary events.
The Young Bond Dossier Website for the Young Bond series.



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James Bond novels and short stories


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Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) ·
 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
 Moonraker (1955) ·
 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
 The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) ·
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)
 


Kingsley Amis

Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


Novelizations




Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


Spin-off works




R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


Young Bond series
Charlie Higson

SilverFin (2005) ·
 Blood Fever (2006) ·
 Double or Die (2007) ·
 Hurricane Gold (2007) ·
 By Royal Command (2008)
 


Young Bond series, continued
Steve Cole

Shoot to Kill (announced November 2014)
 


The Moneypenny Diaries
Samantha Weinberg

Guardian Angel (2005) ·
 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


Uncollected short stories




Raymond Benson

"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
 "Live at Five" (1999)
 


Samantha Weinberg

"For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) ·
 "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (2006)
 


Charlie Higson

"A Hard Man to Kill" (2009)
 


Unofficial works
"Some Are Born Great" (1959) ·
 Alligator (1962) ·
 "Bond Strikes Camp"" (1963) ·
 "Holmes Meets 007" (1964) ·
 "Toadstool" (1966) ·
 Take Over (1970) ·
 The Killing Zone (1985) ·
 "License to Hug" (1995) ·
 "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" (1997)
 

Unpublished works
Per Fine Ounce (1966) ·
 "The Heart of Erzulie" (2002)
 

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 The James Bond Dossier (1965) ·
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James Bond novels and short stories
Fourteen Fleming Bond books in a pile, the titles visible on the spines
Ian Fleming's James Bond novels

Author
Ian Fleming
Kingsley Amis (as Robert Markham)
Christopher Wood
John Gardner
Raymond Benson
Sebastian Faulks
Jeffery Deaver
William Boyd
Charlie Higson
Steve Cole
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Spy fiction
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Published
1953–1966
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
No. of books
14
James Bond is the fictional protagonist of a series of novels and short stories, first published in 1953. Bond, often referred to by his code name, 007, is a British Secret Service agent; the character was created by journalist and author Ian Fleming, and first appeared in his 1953 novel, Casino Royale; the books are set in a contemporary period, between May 1951 and February 1964. Fleming went on to write a total of twelve novels and two collections of short stories, all written at his Jamaican home Goldeneye and published annually. Two of his books were published after his death in 1964.
Since Fleming's death a number of other authors have written continuation works. Some of these have been novelizations of episodes in the series of Bond films, produced by Eon Productions, while others were either continuation novels or short stories. The first author was Kingsley Amis, writing under the pseudonym of "Robert Markham" who produced one novel; then came novelist and biographer John Pearson who wrote a fictional biography of Bond. Novelist and screenwriter Christopher Wood wrote two novelizations in the late 1970s. Writer John Gardner was asked to continue the series by copyright holders Ian Fleming Publications and, between 1981 and 1996, he wrote fourteen novels and two novelizations. After Gardner retired due to ill health, American author Raymond Benson continued the stories and wrote six Bond novels, three novelizations and three short stories between 1996 and 2002.
There was a hiatus of six years before Sebastian Faulks was commissioned to write a further Bond novel, which was released on 28 May 2008, the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth. This was followed in 2011 by a novel by American author Jeffery Deaver and a 2013 book by William Boyd. There has also been a spin-off series of books, Young Bond, based around Bond's adventures whilst a schoolboy at Eton College.



Contents  [hide]
1 Ian Fleming 1.1 Books, by publication sequence
1.2 Short stories
1.3 Fictional chronologies
2 Post-Fleming James Bond novels 2.1 1968–79
2.2 1979–96: John Gardner
2.3 1996–2002: Raymond Benson
2.4 2003–
3 Young Bond
4 References
5 Bibliography
6 External links

Ian Fleming[edit]

signature of Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming's signature
During World War II Fleming had mentioned to friends that he wanted to write a spy novel,[1] but it was not until 17 February 1952 that he began to write his first novel, Casino Royale. He started writing his book at his Jamaican home Goldeneye, typing out 2,000 words in the morning, directly from his own experiences and imagination;[2] he finished work on the manuscript in just over two months,[3] completing it on 18 March 1952.[4] Publishers Jonathan Cape were initially reluctant to publish the book, but were persuaded by Fleming's brother Peter (1907–1971), who had previously published material through them.[5] On 13 April 1953 Casino Royale was released in the UK in hardcover, priced at 10s, 6d,[6] with a cover that had been devised by Fleming himself.[7] The first edition of 4,728 copies of Casino Royale sold out in less than a month;[7] a second print run the same month also sold out,[6] as did a third run of more than 8,000 books published in May 1954.[8] At the time, Fleming was the Foreign Manager for Kemsley Newspapers, an organisation which owned The Sunday Times. Upon accepting the job, Fleming requested that he be allowed three months holiday per year, which allowed him the freedom to write.[1]
The novel centred on the exploits of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the 00 section of the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond was also known by his code number, 007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander. Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies.[9] Fleming based his creation on a number of individuals he came across during his time in the Naval Intelligence Division during World War II, admitting that Bond "was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war".[10] After the publication of Casino Royale, Fleming used his annual holiday at his house in Jamaica to write another Bond story;[1] in total, between 1953 and 1966, two years after his death, twelve Bond novels and two short-story collections were published, with the last two books—The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living Daylights—published posthumously.[11]
Books, by publication sequence[edit]

Title
Author
Publisher
Date
Length (first edition)
Plot
Ref.



Casino Royale
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 13 April 1953 213 pp James Bond is sent to play against and bankrupt Le Chiffre, the paymaster for a SMERSH-controlled trade union, in a high-stakes baccarat game in France. With help from CIA agent Felix Leiter, Bond wins the game, but is betrayed by Vesper Lynd, a double agent. Lynd falls in love with Bond and, instead of betraying him, commits suicide. [12]
Live and Let Die
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 5 April 1954 234 pp Bond is sent to the United States to investigate "Mr. Big", an agent of SMERSH and an underworld voodoo leader who is suspected of selling 17th century gold coins to finance Soviet spy operations in America. Bond's friend and CIA ally, Felix Leiter, is captured and fed to a shark whilst Mr. Big's fortune-telling girlfriend, Solitaire, runs off with Bond. Solitaire is captured by Mr. Big, but Bond saves her and blows up Mr. Big's yacht with a limpet mine. [13]
Moonraker
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 5 April 1955 256 pp Bond joins M at Blades to stop a member, Sir Hugo Drax cheating at bridge. Bond is subsequently seconded onto Drax's staff on the "Moonraker", Britain's first nuclear missile project. Bond discovers that Drax is an ex-Nazi, working for the Soviets; he also establishes that the rocket is not a defence, but is to be used by Drax to destroy London. Bond re-coordinates the rocket, sending it into the North Sea, where it kills Drax. [14]
Diamonds Are Forever
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 26 March 1956 257 pp Bond follows a diamond smuggling ring to America and establishes it is run by an American gang, "The Spangled Mob". He closes down the pipeline by killing one of the heads of the gang, Seraffimo Spang, in a train crash; he then travels to Sierra Leone to kill the other head of the gang, Jack Spang. [15]
From Russia, with Love
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 8 April 1957 253 pp Bond is targeted by SMERSH to be killed in a compromising situation on the Orient Express. He is lured to Istanbul by an attractive young cipher clerk, Corporal Tatiana Romanova, who claims to be defecting and bringing a Spektor, a Russian decoding device much coveted by MI6. Returning to London by train Bond meets SMERSH assassin, Red Grant, pretending to be a fellow British agent. Grant drugs Romanova and attempts to kill Bond, but fails: instead Bond kills Grant. Bond is then nearly killed by Colonel Rosa Klebb, one of the SMERSH planners, before he manages to capture her. [16]
Dr. No
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 31 March 1958 256 pp Commander John Strangways, the head of MI6 Station J in Kingston, Jamaica, and his secretary both disappear and Bond is sent to investigate the matter. Bond finds they had been investigating the activities of Dr. Julius No, a reclusive Chinese-German who lives on Crab Key and runs a guano mine. Bond suspects a connection to the disappearances and, with the assistance of his old friend Quarrel, Bond visits Crab Key. He is captured by Dr. No and establishes that No has been sabotaging American missile tests at nearby Cape Canaveral. Bond escapes and kills No. [17]
Goldfinger
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 23 March 1959 318 pp Bond investigates the activities of Auric Goldfinger, a gold smuggler who M suspects of being connected to SMERSH and financing their western networks with his gold. Bond is captured by Goldfinger and forced to work as a secretary to oversee "Operation Grand Slam", the stealing of the United States gold reserves from Fort Knox. Bond manages to alert the US authorities through his friend, Felix Leiter, and the plot is foiled. [18]
For Your Eyes Only
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 11 April 1960 252 pp "From a View to a Kill" Bond investigates the murder of a motorcycle dispatch-rider and the theft of his top-secret documents by a motorcycle-riding assassin.
 "For Your Eyes Only" Bond avenges the murder of M's closest friends.
 "Quantum of Solace" Bond is told a story of a failed marriage with an emotive twist.
 "Risico" Bond investigates a drug-smuggling operation run by the Russians.
 "The Hildebrand Rarity" Bond helps find a rare fish for an obnoxious millionaire who is subsequently murdered. [19]
Thunderball
Ian Fleming[nb 1] Jonathan Cape 27 March 1961 253 pp An international, non-aligned terrorist organisation, SPECTRE, have hijacked a NATO plane and seized its two nuclear bombs, which it uses to blackmail the western world. Bond is sent to the Bahamas, where he joins forces with Felix Leiter. Bond meets "Domino" Vitali, the sister of the pilot whose bombs were stolen, who is also the mistress of a wealthy treasure hunter, Emilio Largo. Bond and Leiter suspect Largo and, using a nuclear submarine, track him to the bombs: whilst the submarine's crew fight Largo's crew, Bond battles with Largo and is overpowered, but before Largo can finish Bond off, Domino shoots him with a spear gun. [20]
The Spy Who Loved Me
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 16 April 1962 221 pp A young woman is alone, working at a motel when two thugs, hired by the owner, turn up to burn it down for the insurance. They are about to rape the woman when Bond turns up and stops them. Later that night, Bond is attacked, but kills both the thugs. [21]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 1 April 1963 288 pp Bond continues to search for Ernst Stavro Blofeld after the Thunderball incident. Through contact with the College of Arms in London Bond finds Blofeld based in Switzerland with a co-conspirator, Irma Bunt. After meeting him and discovering his latest plans, Bond attacks the centre where he is based, although Blofeld escapes in the confusion. Bond meets and falls in love with Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo during the story and the pair marry, but Blofeld kills Bond's new wife hours after the ceremony. [22]
You Only Live Twice
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 16 March 1964 255 pp After the murder of his wife, Bond begins to let his life slide. M gives him a last chance of redemption, to persuade the Japanese to share radio transmissions captured from the Soviet Union. The Japanese agree, but only if Bond kills Dr. Guntram Shatterhand, who operates a politically embarrassing "Garden of Death" in an ancient castle. Bond recognises Shatterhand and his wife as Blofeld and Bunt and he infiltrates their castle. He kills Blofeld and escapes, although is injured as the castle explodes; his injury leaves him with amnesia and he lives as a Japanese fisherman until he travels to Russia to find out about his past. [23]
The Man with the Golden Gun
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 1 April 1965 221 pp Bond returns to London having been brainwashed by the Russians and assigned to kill M: the attempt ends in failure. To re-prove his worth, M sends him to Jamaica with the seemingly impossible mission of killing Francisco "Pistols" Scaramanga, a Cuban assassin who is believed to have killed several British secret agents. Bond uncovers a larger plot to de-stabilise the region using KGB support and, having killed the American gangsters and KGB representative, also completes his mission with the killing of Scaramanga. [24]
Octopussy and The Living Daylights
Ian Fleming Jonathan Cape 23 June 1966 94 pp The first edition contained only two stories: "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights"; subsequent editions have also contained "The Property of a Lady" and "007 in New York".
"Octopussy" Bond tracks down a World War II hero who had murdered his friend to steal a cache of Nazi gold.
 "The Living Daylights" Bond is assigned sniper duty, but when he sees the sniper is a beautiful woman, he shoots the butt of her rifle instead of killing her.
 "The Property of a Lady" Bond visits Sotheby's to identify a KGB agent.
 "007 in New York" Bond warns a female MI6 employee that her new boyfriend is a KGB agent.
 [25]

Short stories[edit]
In the summer of 1958, the CBS television network commissioned Fleming to write episodes of a television show based on the James Bond character. This deal came about after the success of the 1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale as an episode of the CBS television series Climax![26] Fleming agreed to the deal, and began to write outlines for the series; however, CBS later dropped the idea.[27] In January and February 1959 Fleming adapted four of the television plots into short stories and added a fifth story he had written in the summer of 1958.[28] The stories were originally titled The Rough with the Smooth, although this was changed to For Your Eyes Only for publication, which included the subtitle Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond.[26]
After Fleming's death, a second collection featuring two short stories was released, Octopussy and The Living Daylights.[29] When the paperback edition of the book was published, "The Property of a Lady" was also included[30] and, by 2002, "007 in New York" had been added to the book by Penguin Books.[31]
James Bond short stories

Title
Earliest publication
Date
Ref.

"From a View to a Kill"
Daily Express (as "James Bond and the Murder Before Breakfast") 21 – 25 September 1959 [32]
"Quantum of Solace"
Cosmopolitan May 1959 [33]
"The Hildebrand Rarity"
Playboy March 1960 [34]
"For Your Eyes Only"
For Your Eyes Only 11 April 1960 
"Risico"
Daily Express (as "The Double Take") 11 – 15 April 1960 [35]
"The Living Daylights"[nb 2]
The Sunday Times colour supplement 4 February 1962 [37]
"007 in New York"[nb 3]
New York Herald Tribune October 1963 [41]
"The Property of a Lady"
The Ivory Hammer (Sotheby's annual) November 1963 [40]
"Octopussy"
Posthumously serialised in Daily Express 4 – 8 October 1965 [42]
Fictional chronologies[edit]
Independent scholar John Griswold constructed a "high-level chronology of James Bond's life", based on the logic of depicted events and actual time periods referred to in the books.[43][nb 4] This chronology differs from the publication sequence.[44] Griswold also deliberately discounts the chronological significance of actual historic events mentioned in the novels and stories, arguing that Fleming made such references for effect without synchronising them accurately to his fiction.[45] Fellow Bond-scholar Henry Chancellor also worked through the Bond chronology, which broadly agrees with Griswold, although there are differences. Chancellor noted that "Fleming was always vague about dates", although the novels are supposed to be set in order of publication.[46]
Bond chronologies

Episode
Griswold chronology[47]
Chancellor chronology[48]



Casino Royale
May to July 1951, or May to July 1952 1951
Live and Let Die
January to February 1952 1952
Moonraker
May 1953 1953
Diamonds Are Forever
July to 1 August 1953 1954
From Russia, with Love
June to August 1954 1955
Dr. No
February to March 1956 1956
Goldfinger
April to June 1957 1957
"Risico"
October 1957 October 1957
"Quantum of Solace"
February 1958 October 1957
"The Hildebrand Rarity"
April 1958 April 1958
"From a View to a Kill"
May 1958 May 1958
"For Your Eyes Only"
September to October 1958 October 1958
Thunderball
May to June 1959 1959
"Octopussy"
June 1960 1960
"The Living Daylights"
September to October 1960 October 1959
"The Property of a Lady"
June 1961 June 1961
Chapters 1–5 of On Her Majesty's Secret Service
September 1961 1961
"007 in New York"
end of September 1961 1961
Chapters 10–15 of The Spy Who Loved Me[nb 5]
October 1961 1960
Chapters 6–20 of On Her Majesty's Secret Service
November 1961 to 1 January 1962 1961 to 1 January 1962
You Only Live Twice
August 1962 to April 1963 1962–1963
The Man With the Golden Gun
November 1963 to February 1964 1963

Post-Fleming James Bond novels[edit]
1968–79[edit]
Following Fleming's death in 1964, Glidrose Productions, publishers of the James Bond novels and since renamed Ian Fleming Publications, approached author James Leasor to write a continuation novel, but he declined.[50] Glidrose then commissioned Kingsley Amis, who, under the pseudonym of "Robert Markham", wrote Colonel Sun, which was published on 28 March 1968.[30]
In 1973, Glidrose permitted publication of John Pearson's fictional biography of Bond entitled James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007. This book, written in the first person, posits that Bond was a real person about whom Ian Fleming wrote a series of adventures. This is the only Bond work where the author shares copyright with Glidrose.
In 1977, the Eon Productions film The Spy Who Loved Me was released and, due to the radical differences between the film and the original novel of the same name, Eon productions authorised a novelization, James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me. The 1979 film Moonraker was also produced in novel form, as James Bond and Moonraker; both books were written by screenwriter Christopher Wood.[51]

Title
Author
Publisher
Date
Length (first edition)
Plot
Ref.



Colonel Sun
Kingsley Amis, as Robert Markham Jonathan Cape March 1968 255 pp M is kidnapped and Bond follows the trail to a Greek Aegean island, where he, and Ariadne Alexandrou, a Greek Communist agent, plan to rescue him. M is held by Colonel Sun, a member of the Chinese People's Liberation Army who is in league with a former Nazi, Von Ritcher. Bond battles them both with the help of Ariadne and a friend of her father. [52]
James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007
John Pearson Sidgwick & Jackson 1973 317 pp A fictional biography. Pearson begins the story with his own discovery that James Bond exists; MI6 had assigned Ian Fleming to write novels based upon the real agent. MI6 instruct Pearson to write 007's biography; he is introduced to a retired James Bond — who is in his fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, and with Honeychile Ryder, the heroine of Dr. No. Bond tells his life story to Pearson; this includes the death of Bond's parents, his first MI6 missions and Bond's own reaction to Fleming's books and the films about his adventures. [53]
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (novelization)
Christopher Wood Jonathan Cape July 1977 222 pp A novelization of The Spy Who Loved Me. Bond investigates the disappearance of British, American and Soviet ballistic-missile submarines, with the help of KGB agent Major Anya Amasova. The pair identify the culprit as Sigmund Stromberg, a shipping tycoon, scientist and anarchist, whom they battle and beat in his undersea Atlantis base. [54]
James Bond and Moonraker (novelization)
Christopher Wood Jonathan Cape 1979 221 pp A novelization of Moonraker. Bond investigates the theft of a Space Shuttle, leading him to Hugo Drax, the owner of the shuttle's manufacturing firm. Along with space scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the trail into outer space to prevent a plot to wipe out the world population and to re-create humanity with a master race. [54]

1979–96: John Gardner[edit]
In the 1980s, the Bond series was initially revived with new novels by John Gardner, although initially he almost turned the series down.[55] Between 1981 and 1996, Gardner went on to write sixteen Bond books in total; two of the books he wrote – Licence to Kill and GoldenEye – were novelizations of Eon Productions films of the same name. Gardner stated that he wanted "to bring Mr Bond into the 1980s",[56] although he retained the ages of the characters as they were when Fleming had left them.[57] Even though Gardner kept the ages the same, he made Bond grey at the temples as a nod to the passing of the years.[58] In 1996, Gardner retired from writing James Bond books due to ill health.[59] With the influence of the American publishers, Putnam's, the Gardner novels showed an increase in the number of Americanisms used in the book, such as a waiter wearing "pants", rather than trousers, in The Man from Barbarossa.[60] James Harker, writing in The Guardian, considered that the Gardner books were "dogged by silliness",[60] giving examples of Scorpius, where much of the action is set in Chippenham, and Win, Lose or Die, where "Bond gets chummy with an unconvincing Maggie Thatcher".[60]

Title
Author
Publisher
Date
Length (first edition)
Plot
Ref.



Licence Renewed
John Gardner Jonathan Cape May 1981 272 pp Bond infiltrates the castle of Dr. Anton Murik, a nuclear physicist who is involved with a terrorist named Franco. Murik hired Franco to hijack six nuclear power stations in order to start a meltdown, but the terrorists are prevented from doing so by Bond who, posing as Murik, orders them to abort. [61]
For Special Services
John Gardner Jonathan Cape September 1982 256 pp Bond teams up with CIA agent Cedar Leiter, daughter of Felix, to investigate Markus Bismaquer, who is suspected of reviving SPECTRE. Bond establishes SPECTRE are to take over the NORAD headquarters in order to gain control of America's military space satellite network. Bond foils the plot and finds that Bismaquer's wife, Nena, is the daughter of Blofeld and the head of SPECTRE. [62]
Icebreaker
John Gardner Jonathan Cape July 1983 256 pp Bond is teamed with an alliance of agents from the CIA, the KGB and Mossad to find and stop leader of the National Socialist Action Army (NSAA), Count Konrad von Glöda, an ex-Nazi SS officer who now perceives himself as the new Adolf Hitler. [63]
Role of Honour
John Gardner Jonathan Cape October 1984 224 pp Bond is sacked from MI6 to go undercover and is subsequently hired by SPECTRE. He joins Jay Autem Holy, a SPECTRE agent and becomes involved in a plot to destabilise the Soviet Union and the United States, by forcing them to rid the world of their nuclear weapons: a plot he foils with the help of Miss 'Percy' Proud, a CIA agent. [64]
Nobody Lives for Ever
John Gardner Jonathan Cape June 1986 192 pp A price is put on Bond's head by Tamil Rahani, the current leader of SPECTRE, who is dying from wounds received in Role of Honour. Bond's housekeeper, May, and Moneypenny are both missing and Bond attempts to find them whilst avoiding the assassins who are attempting to kill him. [65]
No Deals, Mr. Bond
John Gardner Jonathan Cape May 1987 224 pp Two women, previously connected to a Cold War mission, are brutally murdered. Bond is subsequently sent by M, "off the record", to find the remaining members of the mission before they suffer the same fate. [66]
Scorpius
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton July 1988 224 pp Bond is threatened by a cult known as "The Meek Ones", who commit several acts of terrorism including multiple bombings and several assassinations of British politicians. Bond establishes the man behind the cult is an arms dealer, Vladimir Scorpius, who Bond locates and kills. [67]
Win, Lose or Die
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton 1989 220 pp The Brotherhood of Anarchy and Secret Terrorism infiltrate and destroy a top-secret British Royal Navy aircraft carrier-based summit between American President George H. W. Bush, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Russian Premier Mikhail Gorbachev: Bond breaks their hijack and rescues the three leaders. [68]
Licence to Kill (novelization)
John Gardner Coronet Books 1989 224 pp A novelization of Licence to Kill. Drugs lord Franz Sanchez is caught by Bond and Felix Leiter, but escapes and ambush Leiter and his wife Della: Leiter is maimed by a shark as Della is raped and killed. M orders Bond to a mission in Istanbul but Bond refuses and he is suspended and his 00 licence is revoked. Bond sets out on a revenge mission against Sanchez, surreptitiously helped by MI6 armourer Q. [69]
Brokenclaw
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton July 1990 192 pp Bond investigates Brokenclaw, a half-Blackfoot, half-Chinese philanthropist and economic terrorist who is trying to start a worldwide economic collapse by attacking the main global currencies. Bond is challenged by Brokenclaw to a torture ritual known as o-kee-pa and kills him using bow and arrows. [70]
The Man from Barbarossa
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton August 1991 231 pp Bond teams up with Mossad, the French Secret Service and the KGB to infiltrate a Russian terrorist group called the "Scales of Justice" who are attempting to supply Iraq with nuclear weapons before the United Nations-led coalition invades. [71]
Death is Forever
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton July 1992 224 pp James Bond and CIA agent Elizabeth Zara "Easy" St. John are assigned to track down the surviving members of "Cabal", a Cold War-era intelligence network that received a mysterious and unauthorised signal to disband. [72]
Never Send Flowers
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton July 1993 256 pp Bond investigates the murder of a member of the Secret Service and connects the death to four political assassinations that take place within a week. Bond discovers a link with a former actor, David Dragonpol, who is responsible for the deaths. [73]
SeaFire
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton August 1994 247 pp Bond investigates Max Tarn, a billionaire business tycoon who is determined to reunite Germany under a new Fourth Reich. Tarn is also involved in eco-terrorism with a massive oil spill fire in Puerto Rico. Bond averts the ecological damage and kills Tarn. [74]
GoldenEye (novelization)
John Gardner Coronet Books October 1995 218 pp A novelization of GoldenEye. Nine years after a mission which saw the death of his colleague 006, Bond investigates the theft of a prototype Eurocopter Tiger helicopter and its subsequent use in the attack on the Russian command bunker that controls the GoldenEye satellite weapon. Bond finds the crime syndicate behind the theft and attack is run by 006, who is trying to destroy London's financial centre which will cover a large-scale bank theft. [69]
COLD
John Gardner Hodder & Stoughton May 1996 264 pp The crash of a Boeing 747-400 at Dulles International Airport and the supposed death of Bond's friend and former lover, the Principessa Sukie Tempesta leads Bond on a personal revenge mission that uncovers a fanatical society, COLD: the Children of the Last Days. [75]

1996–2002: Raymond Benson[edit]

a bearded man with glasses, wearing a grey jumper, sitting on a sofa

Raymond Benson, continuation Bond author
In 1996, American author Raymond Benson became the writer of the Bond novels. Benson had previously written The James Bond Bedside Companion, first published in 1984.[76] By the time he moved on to other, non-Bond related projects in 2002, Benson had written six Bond novels, three novelizations and three short stories.[77] Benson followed Gardner's pattern of setting Bond in the contemporary timeframe of the 1990s[78] and, according to academic Jeremy Black, had more echoes of Fleming's style than John Gardner.[79] Benson also changed Bond's gun back to the Walther PPK,[80] put him behind the wheel of a Jaguar XK8[81] and made him swear more,[82] which led Black to note that there was an increased level of crudity lacking in either Fleming or Gardner.[79] However, commenting in The Australian, Peter Janson-Smith, Fleming's former literary agent, noted that Benson "has got the Fleming feel ... It's as close to Fleming as I have seen."[83] The Peterborough Evening Telegraph agreed, stating that with Benson's 007, in keeping more with Fleming, "PC-ness goes out the window and it's a more ruthless Bond with bad habits."[84] The Sunday Mercury in 1999 said, "Benson has made Bond less gimmicky, concentrating on the action rather than the gadgets. The result is a slick enough read for dedicated Bond fans who like blazing guns (Walthers, of course) and beautiful women"[85] and Kirkus Reviews called Benson's 007 "a chip off the old block and, if not a gilt-edged Bond, at least a double-A."[86]



Title
Author
Publisher
Date
Length (first edition)
Plot
Ref.



"Blast From the Past" (short story)
Raymond Benson Playboy January 1997 — Bond receives a message, apparently from James Suzuki, his son, asking him to come to New York City on a matter of urgency. When Bond arrives, he finds his son murdered. He learns that James was killed in revenge by Irma Bunt for the murder of Blofeld. Bond meets and kills Bunt. [80]
Zero Minus Ten
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton April 1997 259 pp Ten days before Britain returns Hong Kong, a series of terrorist attacks occur. Bond establishes that behind them is wealthy shipping magnate Guy Thackeray, whose company is taken over by the Chinese. By way of revenge, Thackeray plans to detonate a nuclear weapon in Hong Kong: Bond disarms the bomb and kills Thackeray. [87]
Tomorrow Never Dies (novelization)
Raymond Benson Coronet Books November 1997 213 pp A novelization of Tomorrow Never Dies. Bond investigates media baron Elliot Carver, who is trying to create news by causing a war between Britain and China, which would also allow him broadcasting rights in China. Bond joins forces with Wai Lin, a Chinese agent, to defeat Carver and avoid war. [88]
The Facts of Death
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton May 1998 284 pp Sinister organisation The Decada are behind a series of poisonings aimed at British and Turkish military personnel. Bond tracks the head of the organisation to Greece where he is trying to cause a war between Greece and Turkey, which Bond stops. [89]
"Midsummer Night's Doom" (short story)
Raymond Benson Playboy January 1999 9 pp Bond attends a party at Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, California where Ministry of Defence secrets are expected to be sold to a representative of the Russian Mafia. [82]
High Time to Kill
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton May 1999 304 pp A top secret British formula hidden in microfilm, codenamed "Skin 17" was stolen by two traitors who plan to sell it to the terrorist organisation "The Union". The microfilm is on a plane that crashes in the Himalayas and Bond climbs Mount Kangchenjunga to retrieve it. He battles a traitor in the climbing team, but retrieves the secret. [90]
"Live at Five" (short story)
Raymond Benson TV Guide (American edition) November 1999 — On the way to a date with a female television news reporter, 007 recalls how he once helped a Russian figure skating champion defect in full view of television cameras. [91]
The World Is Not Enough (novelization)
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton November 1999 200 pp A novelization of The World Is Not Enough. Bond is tasked with protecting Elektra King after the murder of her father inside the MI6 building. Bond establishes a connection between her head of security and the international terrorist Renard, who is stealing plutonium in order to destroy Istanbul on behalf of Elektra. Bond kills both Renard and Elektra. [88]
DoubleShot
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton May 2000 320 pp After he foiled their plans, terrorist organisation The Union target Bond with a plan to plunge Britain into war and destroy Bond's reputation in the process by having a Bond double kill the British Prime Minister and the Governor of Gibraltar. Bond uncovers the plan and kills the double, preventing the assassinations. [92]
Never Dream of Dying
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton November 2001 320 pp Bond is again in the hunt for The Union and is chasing Le Gerant, the Blind head of the organisation. After a police raid goes wrong René Mathis goes after Le Gerant, followed by Bond. [93]
The Man with the Red Tattoo
Raymond Benson Hodder & Stoughton May 2002 320 pp Bond is in Japan to protect the prime minister at a conference and to investigate mysterious deaths in the McMahon family, who ran pharmaceutical giant CureLab. Bond reunites with Tiger Tanaka to pursue terrorist Goro Yoshida who is using biological weapons to punish Western society and plots an end to western domination. Bond kills him and negates any threats. [94]
Die Another Day (novelization)
Raymond Benson Coronet Books November 2002 245 pp A novelization of Die Another Day. Bond investigates the North Korean Colonel Tan-Sun Moon and tracks his assistant Zao to clinic where his appearance is altered. Bond finds diamonds on Zao bearing the crest of British billionaire Gustav Graves and establishes Graves is the facially-reconstructed Moon, who is attempting to reunite North and South Korea by force, which Bond stops, killing Moon in the process. [88]

2003–[edit]

a bearded man with an open-necked white shirt

Sebastian Faulks, author of Devil May Care
Glidrose twice approached Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novels, about writing a Bond novel but he turned them down.[95] Ian Fleming Publications then commissioned Sebastian Faulks to write a continuation novel, which was released on 28 May 2008, the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth.[96] The book—titled Devil May Care—was published in the UK by Penguin Books and by Doubleday in the US.[97] Faulks ignored the timeframe established by Gardner and Benson and instead reverted to that used by Fleming and Amis, basing his novel in the 1960s;[78] he also managed to use a number of the cultural touchstones of the sixties in the book.[98] Faulks was true to Bond's original character and background too, and provided "a Flemingesque hero"[78] who drove a battleship grey 1967 T-series Bentley.[81]
American writer Jeffery Deaver was then commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to produce Carte Blanche, which was published on 26 May 2011.[99] The book updated Bond working for a post-9/11 agency, independent of MI5 or MI6.[100] On 26 September 2013 the novel Solo, by William Boyd was published in the UK and by HarperCollins in Canada and the US; the book was once again be set in the 1960s.[101][102]



Title
Author
Publisher
Date
Length (first edition)
Plot
Ref.



Devil May Care
Sebastian Faulks Penguin May 2008 295 pp Bond investigates Julius Gorner, a businessman who is producing heroin that threatens England, as well as wanting to attack the Soviets, who will retaliate against Britain. Bond foils the plot and kills Gorner. [97]
Carte Blanche
Jeffery Deaver Hodder & Stoughton May 2011 448 pp Bond investigates the activities of Severan Hydt, a waste-disposal magnate. Hydt had been tasked by an American pharmaceutical company to detonate a device at a British university to kill a researcher who was on the verge of creating a drug to cure cancer. Bond foiled the plot and a second plot to use food aid to give the Sudanese government a pretext to go to war with rebels and prevent Southern Sudan from seceding. [100]
Solo
William Boyd Jonathan Cape September 2013 336 pp Bond tries to stop a civil war in the fictional country of Zanzarim. Although the civil war finishes without Bond's help, he is shot and left for dead by a mercenary, Kobus Breed and Efua Blessing Ogilvy-Grant, who Bond thought was the MI6 representative in the country. Bond traces the pair to the USA, and goes on a revenge mission to kill them; he is picked up by the CIA who inform him Ogilvy-Grant is a CIA operative. He meets Ogilvy-Grant, who informs him that she shot to wound, not kill. Bond traces Breed, who has been smuggling heroin into the country. [102]

Young Bond[edit]

a smiling man wearing glasses faces the camera

Charlie Higson, author of the Young Bond series
The Young Bond series of novels was started by Charlie Higson[103] and, between 2005 and 2009, five novels and one short story were published.[104] The first Young Bond novel, SilverFin was also adapted and released as a graphic novel on 2 October 2008 by Puffin Books.[105] Comic book artist Kev Walker illustrated Higson's novel.[106] Young Bond is set in the 1930s, which would fit the chronology with that of Fleming.[107]




I deliberately steered clear of anything post Fleming. My books are designed to fit in with what Fleming wrote and nothing else. I also didn't want to be influenced by any of the other books ... for now my Bible is Fleming.
Charlie Higson[108]
Higson stated that he was instructed by the Fleming estate to ignore all other interpretations of Bond, except the original Fleming version.[109] As the background to Bond's childhood, Higson used Bond's obituary in You Only Live Twice as well as his own and Fleming's childhoods.[110] In forming the early Bond character, Higson created the origins of some of Bond's character traits, including his love of cars and fine wine.[109]
In October 2013 Ian Fleming Publications announced that Stephen Cole would continue the series, with the first edition scheduled to be released in Autumn 2014.[111] The title was later confirmed as Shoot to Kill with a release date of 6 November 2014, and it was further confirmed that Cole will be credited as Steve Cole for the release.[112]



Title
Author
Publisher
Date
Length (first edition)
Plot
Ref.



SilverFin
Charlie Higson Puffin Books March 2005 372 pp Bond meets Lord Randolph Hellebore, an arms dealer and father of fellow Etonian George Hellebore; Hellebore has a castle near to Bond's new home in Scotland and, whilst on holiday, Bond investigates the disappearance of local boy Alfie Kelly. Bond soon finds out that Hellebore is involved in creating a pill to create better and stronger soldiers by manipulating the endocrine system and had tested this pill on Alfie, but that Alfie had died. With help, Bond brings an end to the tests. [113]
Blood Fever
Charlie Higson Puffin Books January 2006 384 pp Whilst on a school trip to Sardinia, Bond comes up against the Millenaria, a secret Italian society that has plans to restore the Roman Empire. Bond meets Count Ugo Carnifex, the head of the Millenaria who tortures him by using mosquitoes. Bond escapes, rescuing the sister of a fellow Etonian in the process and Carnifex's castle is destroyed by an embittered employee. [114]
Double or Die
Charlie Higson Puffin Books January 2007 389 pp A master from Eton is kidnapped and sends a letter back to his boys with cryptic clues about his kidnap. Bond's room mate Pritpal Nandra solves most of the clues whilst Bond and fellow school friend Perry Mandeville go in search of the missing master. Bond finds the master, who has been kidnapped by the Russians in order to build a prototype computer and, with help, manages to rescue him. [115]
Hurricane Gold
Charlie Higson Puffin Books September 2007 372 pp Bond is on holiday with his aunt when the house in which he is staying is violently burgled and two children are kidnapped. Bond give chase and is captured, but convinces them he is a local street thug and they allow him to join the gang. One of the children is ill and a villain has a change of heart and smuggles him away to a local hospital: Bond eventually rescues the second child. The pair then chase the one remaining gangster to an island retreat for villains where Bond runs La Avenida de Muerte in order to escape. [116]
By Royal Command
Charlie Higson Puffin Books September 2008 354 pp Bond travels to Kitzbühel, Austria on an Eton school trip, but is under surveillance for the journey. On his return to Eton Bond foils a plot to assassinate King George V. Still under surveillance, Bond falls in love with a communist maid at Eton and they are eventually forced to flee back to Austria, from where the plot originated. [117]
SilverFin
Charlie Higson & Kevin Walker Puffin Books October 2008 155 pp The graphic novel of SilverFin: Bond battles Lord Randolph Hellebore and stops Hellebore's research into creating mutant soldiers; he also finds out the fate of a missing local boy in the process—killed during the testing process of Hellebore's drug. [118]
"A Hard Man to Kill" (short story)
Charlie Higson Puffin Books October 2009 64 pp Bond and his Aunt Charmian are travelling back from the Caribbean on the SS Colombie but come across a villain named Emil Lefebvre and a mysterious hooded convict named Caiboche. [119]
Shoot to Kill
Steve Cole Random House November 2014 TBA TBA [120]

References[edit]
Notes
1.Jump up ^ Based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and Fleming
2.Jump up ^ Fleming originally titled "The Living Daylights" as "Trigger Finger",[36] although when it first appeared, in the The Sunday Times colour supplement of 4 February 1962,[37] it was under the title of "The Living Daylights".[38] It was also published in June 1962 issue of the American magazine Argosy under the name "Berlin Escape".[39]
3.Jump up ^ Originally titled "Reflections in a Carey Cadillac",[40] it was changed to "Agent 007 in New York" for publication in the New York Herald Tribune but was subsequently renamed as "007 in New York" for the 1964 US editions of Thrilling Cities.[41]
4.Jump up ^ Griswold's work, Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories, is classed as an approved reference book by Ian Fleming Publications, the family company of Ian Fleming and holders of the copyright to all Fleming's works. The work has been accepted by Raymond Benson, continuation author of Bond novels from 1997 to 2003 and writer of The James Bond Bedside Companion as a serious source and has been cited in academic works, such as Biddulph, Edward "Bond Was Not a Gourmet": An Archaeology of James Bond's Diet Source: Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Volume 12, Number 2, June 2009.
5.Jump up ^ James Bond is entirely absent from chapters 1–9 of The Spy Who Loved Me, the events of which extend back some years, overlapping in time with much of the earlier Bond fiction. Bond does not appear until chapter 10, whereupon and thereafter he figures as a central character.[49]
Footnotes
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Lycett, Andrew. "Fleming, Ian Lancaster (1908–1964) (subscription needed)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press). doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33168. Retrieved 3 December 2011. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
2.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 4.
3.Jump up ^ "Ian Fleming". About Ian Fleming. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
4.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 4.
5.Jump up ^ Lycett 1996, p. 226.
6.^ Jump up to: a b Lycett 1996, p. 244.
7.^ Jump up to: a b "The great Bond cover up". guardian.co.uk. 8 May 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
8.Jump up ^ Lindner 2009, p. 14.
9.Jump up ^ Caplen 2010, p. 21.
10.Jump up ^ Macintyre, Ben (5 April 2008). "Bond – the real Bond". The Times. p. 36.
11.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 75.
12.Jump up ^ "Casino Royale". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
13.Jump up ^ "Live and Let Die". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
14.Jump up ^ "Moonraker". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
15.Jump up ^ "Diamonds are Forever". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
16.Jump up ^ "From Russia, with Love". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
17.Jump up ^ "Dr. No". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
18.Jump up ^ "Goldfinger". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
19.Jump up ^ "For Your Eyes Only". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
20.Jump up ^ "Thunderball". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
21.Jump up ^ "The Spy Who Loved Me". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
22.Jump up ^ "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
23.Jump up ^ "You Only Live Twice". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
24.Jump up ^ "The Man with the Golden Gun". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
25.Jump up ^ "Octopussy and The Living Daylights". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
26.^ Jump up to: a b Benson 1988, p. 17.
27.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 146.
28.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 18.
29.Jump up ^ Lycett 1996, p. 445.
30.^ Jump up to: a b Benson 1988, p. 31.
31.Jump up ^ "Octopussy & The living daylights / Ian Fleming". The British Library Catalogue. British Library. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
32.Jump up ^ Gilbert 2012, p. 268.
33.Jump up ^ Gilbert 2012, p. 288.
34.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 149.
35.Jump up ^ Gilbert 2012, p. 269.
36.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 241.
37.^ Jump up to: a b Lycett 1996, p. 396.
38.Jump up ^ Fleming, Ian (4 February 1962). "The Living Daylights". The Sunday Times (London). p. 23 (S).
39.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 24.
40.^ Jump up to: a b Chancellor 2005, p. 240.
41.^ Jump up to: a b Griswold 2006, p. 381.
42.Jump up ^ Gilbert 2012, p. 443.
43.Jump up ^ Griswold 2006, pp. 2–13.
44.Jump up ^ Griswold 2006, p. 2.
45.Jump up ^ Griswold 2006, p. 6.
46.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 98.
47.Jump up ^ Griswold 2006, p. 13.
48.Jump up ^ Chancellor 2005, p. 98-99.
49.Jump up ^ Griswold 2006, pp. 350–352.
50.Jump up ^ "Obituary: James Leasor". The Times. 22 September 2007. p. 77.
51.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 223.
52.Jump up ^ "Colonel Sun". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
53.Jump up ^ "John Pearson". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
54.^ Jump up to: a b "Christopher Wood". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
55.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 58.
56.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 185.
57.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 61.
58.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 149.
59.Jump up ^ Ripley, Mike (2 November 2007). "Obituary: John Gardner: Prolific thriller writer behind the revival of James Bond and Professor Moriarty". The Guardian. p. 41. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
60.^ Jump up to: a b c Harker, James (2 June 2011). "James Bond's changing incarnations". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
61.Jump up ^ "Licence Renewed". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
62.Jump up ^ "For Special Services". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
63.Jump up ^ "Ice Breaker". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
64.Jump up ^ "Role Of Honour". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
65.Jump up ^ "Nobody Lives Forever". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
66.Jump up ^ "No Deals Mr Bond". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
67.Jump up ^ "Scorpius". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
68.Jump up ^ "Win, Lose Or Die". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
69.^ Jump up to: a b "John Gardner (1926 – 2007)". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
70.Jump up ^ "Brokenclaw". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
71.Jump up ^ "The Man From Barbarossa". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
72.Jump up ^ "Death is Forever". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 12 July 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
73.Jump up ^ "Never Send Flowers". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
74.Jump up ^ "Seafire". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
75.Jump up ^ "Cold". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
76.Jump up ^ Raymond Benson. "Books—At a Glance". RaymondBenson.com. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
77.Jump up ^ "Raymond Benson". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
78.^ Jump up to: a b c Dugdale, John (29 May 2011). "Spy another day". The Sunday Times. p. 40.
79.^ Jump up to: a b Black 2005, p. 198.
80.^ Jump up to: a b Simpson 2002, p. 62.
81.^ Jump up to: a b Davis, Kylie (23 November 2007). "A Bond with the devil". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 8.
82.^ Jump up to: a b Simpson 2002, p. 63.
83.Jump up ^ Hamilton, Sebastian (8 October 1996). "Bond reverts to type". The Australian.
84.Jump up ^ Crampton, Tracey (26 April 1997). "Review: Zero Minus Ten". Peterborough Evening Telegraph.
85.Jump up ^ Williamson, Richard (13 June 1999). "Book reviews: Latest novel maintains 007's licence to thrill". Sunday Mercury. p. 40.
86.Jump up ^ "Zero Minus Ten". Kirkus Reviews. 1 April 1997.
87.Jump up ^ "Zero Minus Ten". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
88.^ Jump up to: a b c "About Raymond". Retrieved 14 November 2012.
89.Jump up ^ "The Facts of Death". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
90.Jump up ^ "High Time To Kill". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
91.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 64.
92.Jump up ^ "Doubleshot". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
93.Jump up ^ "Never Dream Of Dying". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
94.Jump up ^ "The Man With The Red Tattoo". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
95.Jump up ^ Sachs, Andrea (11 June 2007). "Q&A Author Lee Child". Time. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
96.Jump up ^ "Faulks pens new James Bond novel". BBC News. 11 July 2007. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
97.^ Jump up to: a b "Sebastian Faulks". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
98.Jump up ^ Weisman, John (22 June 2008). "Close to 007 original, but not quite". The Washington Times.
99.Jump up ^ "James Bond book called Carte Blanche". BBC News. 17 January 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
100.^ Jump up to: a b "Carte Blanche". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
101.Jump up ^ "William Boyd takes James Bond back to 1960s in new 007 novel". BBC News (London). BBC. 12 April 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
102.^ Jump up to: a b "Solo". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
103.Jump up ^ Smith, Neil (3 March 2005). "The name's Bond – Junior Bond". BBC News. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
104.Jump up ^ "Charlie Higson". Puffin Books – Authors. Penguin Books. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
105.Jump up ^ "SilverFin: The Graphic Novel". Puffin Books. Penguin Books. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
106.Jump up ^ "SilverFin The Graphic Novel released in UK". The Young Bond Dossier. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
107.Jump up ^ "Young Bond books". The Books. Ian Fleming Publications. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
108.Jump up ^ Cox, John. "The Charlie Higson CBn Interview". CommanderBond.net. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
109.^ Jump up to: a b Turner, Janice (31 December 2005). "Man and boy". The Times. p. 14.
110.Jump up ^ Malvern, Jack. "Shaken and stirred: the traumatic boyhood of James Bond". The Times. p. 26.
111.Jump up ^ "New Young Bond Series in 2014". Ian Fleming Publications. 9 October 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
112.Jump up ^ "New Young Bond Title and Cover Art Revealed". The Book Bond. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
113.Jump up ^ "Young Bond: SilverFin". Puffin Books: Charlie Higson. Penguin Books. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
114.Jump up ^ "Young Bond: Blood Fever". Puffin Books: Charlie Higson. Penguin Books. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
115.Jump up ^ "Young Bond: Double or Die". Puffin Books: Charlie Higson. Penguin Books. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
116.Jump up ^ "Young Bond: Hurricane Gold". Puffin Books: Charlie Higson. Penguin Books. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
117.Jump up ^ "Young Bond: By Royal Command". Puffin Books: Charlie Higson. Penguin Books. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
118.Jump up ^ "SilverFin: The Graphic Novel". Puffin Books: Charlie Higson. Penguin Books. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
119.Jump up ^ "Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier". Puffin Books Australia. Penguin Books. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
120.Jump up ^ "New Young Bond Title and Cover Art Revealed". The Book Bond. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
Bibliography[edit]
Benson, Raymond (1988). The James Bond Bedside Companion. London: Boxtree Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85283-233-9.
Black, Jeremy (2005). The Politics of James Bond: from Fleming's Novel to the Big Screen. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
Caplen, Robert (2010). Shaken & Stirred: The Feminism of James Bond. Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4535-1282-1.
Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bond: The Man and His World. London: John Murray. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-2.
Gilbert, Jon (2012). Ian Fleming: The Bibliography. London: Queen Anne Press. ISBN 978-0-9558189-6-7.
Griswold, John (2006). Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations And Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-4259-3100-1.
Lindner, Christoph (2009). The James Bond Phenomenon: a Critical Reader. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-6541-5.
Lycett, Andrew (1996). Ian Fleming. London: Phoenix. ISBN 978-1-85799-783-5.
Simpson, Paul (2002). The Rough Guide to James Bond. Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-84353-142-5.
External links[edit]
Penguin007.com Official website for Devil May Care and the 2008 Centenary events.
The Young Bond Dossier Website for the Young Bond series.



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 Live and Let Die (1954) ·
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 Diamonds Are Forever (1956) ·
 From Russia, with Love (1957) ·
 Dr. No (1958) ·
 Goldfinger (1959) ·
 For Your Eyes Only (1960) ·
 Thunderball (1961) ·
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 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) ·
 You Only Live Twice (1964) ·
 The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) ·
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Colonel Sun (1968)
 


John Gardner

Licence Renewed (1981) ·
 For Special Services (1982) ·
 Icebreaker (1983) ·
 Role of Honour (1984) ·
 Nobody Lives for Ever (1986) ·
 No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) ·
 Scorpius (1988) ·
 Win, Lose or Die (1989) ·
 Brokenclaw (1990) ·
 The Man from Barbarossa (1991) ·
 Death is Forever (1992) ·
 Never Send Flowers (1993) ·
 SeaFire (1994) ·
 COLD (1996)
 


Raymond Benson

Zero Minus Ten (1997) ·
 The Facts of Death (1998) ·
 High Time to Kill (1999) ·
 DoubleShot (2000) ·
 Never Dream of Dying (2001) ·
 The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
 


Sebastian Faulks

Devil May Care (2008)
 


Jeffery Deaver

Carte Blanche (2011)
 


William Boyd

Solo (2013)
 


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Christopher Wood

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ·
 James Bond and Moonraker (1979)
 


John Gardner

Licence to Kill (1989) ·
 GoldenEye (1995)
 


Raymond Benson

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ·
 The World Is Not Enough (1999) ·
 Die Another Day (2002)
 


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R. D. Mascott

The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ (1967)
 


John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
 


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 Secret Servant (2006) ·
 Final Fling (2008)
 


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"Blast From the Past" (1997) ·
 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) ·
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James Bond
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Ian Fleming's image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists.

First appearance
Casino Royale, 1953 novel
Last appearance
Solo, 2013 novel
Created by
Ian Fleming
Portrayed by
George Baker Pierce Brosnan
Christopher Cazenove
Daniel Craig
Sean Connery
Timothy Dalton
Bob Holness
Michael Jayston
George Lazenby
Roger Moore
Barry Nelson
David Niven
Toby Stephens

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, seven other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelizations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd.[1] Additionally, Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond, and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny.
The fictional British Secret Service agent has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip, video games and film. The films are the longest continually running and the second-highest grossing film series to date, which started in 1962 with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as Bond. As of 2014, there have been twenty-three films in the Eon Productions series. The most recent Bond film, Skyfall (2012), stars Daniel Craig in his third portrayal of Bond; he is the sixth actor to play Bond in the Eon series. There have also been two independent productions of Bond films: Casino Royale (a 1967 spoof) and Never Say Never Again (a 1983 remake of an earlier Eon-produced film, Thunderball).
The Bond films are renowned for a number of features, including the musical accompaniment, with the theme songs having received Academy Award nominations on several occasions, and one win. Other important elements which run through most of the films include Bond's cars, his girls, his guns, and the gadgets with which he is supplied by Q Branch.



Contents  [hide]
1 Publication history 1.1 Creation and inspiration
1.2 Novels and related works 1.2.1 Ian Fleming novels
1.2.2 Post-Fleming novels
1.2.3 Young Bond
1.2.4 The Moneypenny Diaries

2 Adaptations 2.1 Television
2.2 Radio
2.3 Comics medium
2.4 Films 2.4.1 The Eon Productions films
2.4.2 Non-Eon films
2.4.3 Music
2.5 Video games
3 Guns, vehicles and gadgets 3.1 Guns
3.2 Vehicles
3.3 Gadgets
4 Cultural impact 4.1 Merchandising
5 See also
6 References
7 Bibliography
8 External links

Publication history
Creation and inspiration
Main articles: James Bond (literary character) and Inspirations for James Bond
As the central figure for his works, Ian Fleming created the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond was also known by his code number, 007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander.
Fleming based his fictional creation on a number of individuals he came across during his time in the Naval Intelligence Division during World War II, admitting that Bond "was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war".[2] Among those types were his brother, Peter, who had been involved in behind-the-lines operations in Norway and Greece during the war.[3] Aside from Fleming's brother, a number of others also provided some aspects of Bond's make up, including Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, Patrick Dalzel-Job and Bill "Biffy" Dunderdale.[2]
The name James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born".[4] He further explained that:

When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument ... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, (James Bond) is the dullest name I ever heard.
—Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21 April 1962[5]
On another occasion, Fleming said: "I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, 'James Bond' was much better than something more interesting, like 'Peregrine Carruthers'. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure—an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department."[6]



Hoagy Carmichael—Fleming's view of James Bond.
Fleming decided that Bond should resemble both American singer Hoagy Carmichael and himself[7] and in Casino Royale, Vesper Lynd remarks, "Bond reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless." Likewise, in Moonraker, Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is "certainly good-looking ... Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold."[7]
Fleming also endowed Bond with many of his own traits, including sharing the same golf handicap, the taste for scrambled eggs and using the same brand of toiletries.[8] Bond's tastes are also often taken from Fleming's own as was his behaviour,[9] with Bond's love of golf and gambling mirroring Fleming's own. Fleming used his experiences of his espionage career and all other aspects of his life as inspiration when writing, including using names of school friends, acquaintances, relatives and lovers throughout his books.[2]
It was not until the penultimate novel, You Only Live Twice, that Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background. The book was the first to be written after the release of Dr. No in cinemas and Sean Connery's depiction of Bond affected Fleming's interpretation of the character, to give Bond both a sense of humour and Scottish antecedents that were not present in the previous stories.[10] In a fictional obituary, purportedly published in The Times, Bond's parents were given as Andrew Bond, from the village of Glencoe, Scotland, and Monique Delacroix, from the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.[11] Fleming did not provide Bond's date of birth, but John Pearson's fictional biography of Bond, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, gives Bond a birth date on 11 November 1920,[12] while a study by John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921.[13]
Novels and related works
Main article: List of James Bond novels and short stories
Ian Fleming novels



Goldeneye, in Jamaica, where Fleming wrote all the Bond novels.[14]
Whilst serving in the Naval Intelligence Division, Fleming had planned to become an author[15] and had told a friend, "I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories."[2] On 17 February 1952, he began writing his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica,[16] where he wrote all his Bond novels during the months of January and February each year.[17] He started the story shortly before his wedding to his pregnant girlfriend, Ann Charteris, in order to distract himself from his forthcoming nuptials.[18]
After completing the manuscript for Casino Royale, Fleming showed the manuscript to his friend (and later editor) William Plomer to read. Plomer liked it and submitted it to the publishers, Jonathan Cape, who did not like it as much. Cape finally published it in 1953 on the recommendation of Fleming's older brother Peter, an established travel writer.[17] Between 1953 and 1966, two years after his death, twelve novels and two short-story collections were published, with the last two books – The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living Daylights – published posthumously.[19] All the books were published in the UK through Jonathan Cape.
1953 Casino Royale[20]
1954 Live and Let Die[21]
1955 Moonraker[22]
1956 Diamonds Are Forever[23]
1957 From Russia, with Love[24]
1958 Dr. No[25]
1959 Goldfinger[26]
 1960 For Your Eyes Only[27] (short stories)
1961 Thunderball[28]
1962 The Spy Who Loved Me[29]
1963 On Her Majesty's Secret Service[30]
1964 You Only Live Twice[31]
1965 The Man with the Golden Gun[32]
1966 Octopussy and The Living Daylights[33] (short stories)

Post-Fleming novels
After Fleming's death a continuation novel, Colonel Sun, was written by Kingsley Amis (as Robert Markham) and published in 1968.[34] Amis had already written a literary study of Fleming's Bond novels in his 1965 work The James Bond Dossier.[35] Although novelizations of two of the Eon Productions Bond films appeared in print, James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me and James Bond and Moonraker, both written by screenwriter Christopher Wood,[36] the series of novels did not continue until the 1980s. In 1981, thriller writer John Gardner picked up the series with Licence Renewed.[37] Gardner went on to write sixteen Bond books in total; two of the books he wrote – Licence to Kill and GoldenEye – were novelizations of Eon Productions films of the same name. Gardner moved the Bond series into the 1980s, although he retained the ages of the characters as they were when Fleming had left them.[38] In 1996, Gardner retired from writing James Bond books due to ill health.[39]
1981 Licence Renewed[40]
1982 For Special Services[41]
1983 Icebreaker[42]
1984 Role of Honour[43]
1986 Nobody Lives for Ever[44]
1987 No Deals, Mr. Bond[45]
1988 Scorpius[46]
1989 Win, Lose or Die[47]
 1989 Licence to Kill[36] (novelization)
1990 Brokenclaw[48]
1991 The Man from Barbarossa[49]
1992 Death is Forever[50]
1993 Never Send Flowers[51]
1994 SeaFire[52]
1995 GoldenEye[36] (novelization)
1996 COLD[53]

In 1996 American author Raymond Benson became the author of the Bond novels. Benson had previously been the author of The James Bond Bedside Companion, first published in 1984.[54] By the time he moved on to other, non-Bond related projects in 2002, Benson had written six Bond novels, three novelizations and three short stories.[55]
1997 "Blast From the Past"[56] (short story)
1997 Zero Minus Ten[57]
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies[36] (novelization)
1998 The Facts of Death[58]
1999 "Midsummer Night's Doom"[59] (short story)
1999 "Live at Five"[60] (short story)
 1999 The World Is Not Enough[36] (novelization)
1999 High Time to Kill[61]
2000 DoubleShot[62]
2001 Never Dream of Dying[63]
2002 The Man with the Red Tattoo[64]
2002 Die Another Day[36] (novelization)

After a gap of six years, Sebastian Faulks was commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to write a new Bond novel, which was released on 28 May 2008, the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth.[65] The book—titled Devil May Care—was published in the UK by Penguin Books and by Doubleday in the US.[66] American writer Jeffery Deaver was then commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to produce Carte Blanche, which was published on 26 May 2011.[67] The book updated Bond into a post-9/11 agent, independent of MI5 or MI6.[68] On 26 September 2013 Solo, written by William Boyd, was published, set in 1969.[69]
Young Bond
Main article: Young Bond
The Young Bond series of novels was started by Charlie Higson[70] and, between 2005 and 2009, five novels and one short story were published.[71] The first Young Bond novel, SilverFin was also adapted and released as a graphic novel on 2 October 2008 by Puffin Books.[72] In October 2013 Ian Fleming Publications announced that Stephen Cole would continue the series, with the first edition scheduled to be released in Autumn 2014.[73]
2005 SilverFin[74]
2006 Blood Fever[75]
2007 Double or Die[76]
2007 Hurricane Gold[77]
2008 By Royal Command[78] & SilverFin[79] (graphic novel)
2009 "A Hard Man to Kill"[80] (short story)

The Moneypenny Diaries
The Moneypenny Diaries are a trilogy of novels chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary. The novels are penned by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as the book's "editor".[81] The first instalment of the trilogy, subtitled Guardian Angel, was released on 10 October 2005 in the UK.[82] A second volume, subtitled Secret Servant was released on 2 November 2006 in the UK, published by John Murray.[83] A third volume, subtitled Final Fling was released on 1 May 2008.[84]
2005 The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel[85]
2006 Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries[86]
2008 The Moneypenny Diaries: Final Fling[87]

Adaptations
Television
In 1954 CBS paid Ian Fleming $1,000 ($8,782 in 2014 dollars[88]) to adapt his novel Casino Royale into a one-hour television adventure as part of its Climax! series.[89] The episode aired live on 21 October 1954 and starred Barry Nelson as "Card Sense" James 'Jimmy' Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre.[90] The novel was adapted for American audiences to show Bond as an American agent working for "Combined Intelligence", while the character Felix Leiter—American in the novel—became British onscreen and was renamed "Clarence Leiter".[91]
In 1973 a BBC documentary Omnibus: The British Hero featured Christopher Cazenove playing a number of such title characters (e.g. Richard Hannay and Bulldog Drummond). The documentary included James Bond in dramatised scenes from Goldfinger—notably featuring 007 being threatened with the novel's circular saw, rather than the film's laser beam—and Diamonds Are Forever.[92] In 1991 a TV cartoon series James Bond Jr. was produced with Corey Burton in the role of Bond's nephew, also called James Bond.[93]
Radio
In 1956, the novel Moonraker was adapted for broadcast on South African radio, with Bob Holness providing the voice of Bond.[94] According to The Independent, "listeners across the Union thrilled to Bob's cultured tones as he defeated evil master criminals in search of world domination".[95]
The BBC have adapted five of the Fleming novels for broadcast: in 1990, You Only Live Twice was adapted into a 90 minute radio play for BBC Radio 4 with Michael Jayston playing James Bond. The production was repeated a number of times between 2008 and 2011.[96] On 24 May 2008, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an adaptation of Dr. No. The actor Toby Stephens, who played Bond villain Gustav Graves in the Eon Productions version of Die Another Day, played Bond, while Dr. No was played by David Suchet.[97] Following its success, a second story was adapted and on 3 April 2010, BBC Radio 4 broadcast Goldfinger with Stephens again playing Bond.[98] Sir Ian McKellen was Goldfinger and Stephens' Die Another Day co-star Rosamund Pike played Pussy Galore. The play was adapted from Fleming's novel by Archie Scottney and was directed by Martin Jarvis.[99] In 2012 the novel From Russia, with Love was dramatized for Radio 4; it featured a full cast again starring Stephens as Bond.[100] In May 2014 Stephens again played Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, with Alfred Molina as Blofeld, and Joanna Lumley as Irma Bunt.[101]
Comics medium
Main articles: James Bond (comic strip) and James Bond comic books



 John McLusky's rendition of James Bond.
In 1957, the Daily Express approached Ian Fleming to adapt his stories into comic strips, offering him £1,500 per novel and a share of takings from syndication.[102] After initial reluctance, Fleming, who felt the strips would lack the quality of his writing, agreed.[103] To aid the Daily Express in illustrating Bond, Fleming commissioned an artist to create a sketch of how he believed James Bond looked. The illustrator, John McLusky, however, felt that Fleming's 007 looked too "outdated" and "pre-war" and changed Bond to give him a more masculine look.[104] The first strip, Casino Royale was published from 7 July 1958 to 13 December 1958[105] and was written by Anthony Hern and illustrated by John McLusky.[106]
Most of the Bond novels and short stories have since been adapted for illustration, as well as Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun; the works were written by Henry Gammidge or Jim Lawrence with Yaroslav Horak replacing McClusky as artist in 1966.[105] After the Fleming and Amis material had been adapted, original stories were produced, continuing in the Daily Express and Sunday Express until May 1977.[104]
Several comic book adaptations of the James Bond films have been published through the years: at the time of Dr. No's release in October 1962, a comic book adaptation of the screenplay, written by Norman J. Nodel, was published in Britain as part of the Classics Illustrated anthology series.[107] It was later reprinted in the United States by DC Comics as part of its Showcase anthology series, in January 1963. This was the first American comic book appearance of James Bond and is noteworthy for being a relatively rare example of a British comic being reprinted in a fairly high-profile American comic. It was also one of the earliest comics to be censored on racial grounds (some skin tones and dialogue were changed for the American market).[108][107]
With the release of the 1981 film For Your Eyes Only, Marvel Comics published a two-issue comic book adaptation of the film.[109][110] When Octopussy was released in the cinemas in 1983, Marvel published an accompanying comic;[107] Eclipse also produced a one-off comic for Licence to Kill, although Timothy Dalton refused to allow his likeness to be used.[111] New Bond stories were also drawn up and published from 1989 onwards through Marvel, Eclipse Comics and Dark Horse Comics.[107][110]
Films
Main article: James Bond in film
The Eon Productions films
In 1962 Eon Productions, the company of Canadian Harry Saltzman and American Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli, released the first cinema adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel, Dr. No, featuring Sean Connery as 007.[112] Connery starred in a further four films before leaving the role after You Only Live Twice,[113] which was taken up by George Lazenby for On Her Majesty's Secret Service.[114] Lazenby left the role after just one appearance and Connery was tempted back for his last Eon-produced film Diamonds Are Forever.[115]
In 1973, Roger Moore was appointed to the role of 007 for Live and Let Die and played Bond a further six times over twelve years before being replaced by Timothy Dalton for two films. After a six-year hiatus, during which a legal wrangle threatened Eon's productions of the Bond films,[116] Irish actor Pierce Brosnan was cast as Bond in GoldenEye, released in 1995; he remained in the role for a total of four films, before leaving in 2002. In 2006, Daniel Craig was given the role of Bond for Casino Royale, which rebooted the series.[117] The twenty-third Eon produced film, Skyfall, was released on 26 October 2012.[118] The series has grossed just over $6 billion to date, making it the second-highest-grossing film series (behind Harry Potter),[119] and the single most successful adjusted for inflation.[120]

Title
Year
Actor
Director
Dr. No 1962 Sean Connery Terence Young
From Russia with Love 1963
Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton
Thunderball 1965 Terence Young
You Only Live Twice 1967 Lewis Gilbert
On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 George Lazenby Peter R. Hunt
Diamonds Are Forever 1971 Sean Connery Guy Hamilton
Live and Let Die 1973 Roger Moore
The Man with the Golden Gun 1974
The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 Lewis Gilbert
Moonraker 1979
For Your Eyes Only 1981 John Glen
Octopussy 1983
A View to a Kill 1985
The Living Daylights 1987 Timothy Dalton
Licence to Kill 1989
GoldenEye 1995 Pierce Brosnan Martin Campbell
Tomorrow Never Dies 1997 Roger Spottiswoode
The World Is Not Enough 1999 Michael Apted
Die Another Day 2002 Lee Tamahori
Casino Royale 2006 Daniel Craig Martin Campbell
Quantum of Solace 2008 Marc Forster
Skyfall 2012 Sam Mendes
Non-Eon films
In 1967, Casino Royale was adapted into a parody Bond film starring David Niven as Sir James Bond and Ursula Andress as Vesper Lynd. David Niven had been Ian Fleming's preference for the part of James Bond.[121] The result of a court case in the High Court in London in 1963 allowed Kevin McClory to produce a remake of Thunderball titled Never Say Never Again in 1983.[122] The film, starring Sean Connery as Bond, was not part of the Eon series of Bond films. In 1997 the Sony Corporation acquired all or some of McClory's rights in an undisclosed deal,[122] which were then subsequently acquired by MGM, whilst on 4 December 1997, MGM announced that the company had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Again from Schwartzman's company Taliafilm.[123] Eon now currently (as of 2014) holds the full adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels.[122][124]

Title
Year
Actor
Director
Casino Royale 1967 David Niven Ken Hughes
John Huston
Joseph McGrath
Robert Parrish
Val Guest
Richard Talmadge
Never Say Never Again 1983 Sean Connery Irvin Kershner
Music
Main article: James Bond music
“ ... cocky, swaggering, confident, dark, dangerous, suggestive, sexy, unstoppable. ”
—David Arnold, on the "James Bond Theme"[125]

The "James Bond Theme" was written by Monty Norman and was first orchestrated by the John Barry Orchestra for 1962's Dr. No, although the actual authorship of the music has been a matter of controversy for many years.[126] In 2001, Norman won £30,000 in libel damages from the The Sunday Times newspaper, which suggested that Barry was entirely responsible for the composition.[127] The theme, as written by Norman and arranged by Barry, was described by another Bond film composer, David Arnold, as "bebop-swing vibe coupled with that vicious, dark, distorted electric guitar, definitely an instrument of rock 'n' roll ... it represented everything about the character you would want: It was cocky, swaggering, confident, dark, dangerous, suggestive, sexy, unstoppable. And he did it in two minutes."[125] Barry composed the scores for eleven Bond films[128] and had an uncredited contribution to Dr. No with his arrangement of the Bond Theme.[125]
A Bond film staple are the theme songs heard during their title sequences sung by well-known popular singers.[129] Several of the songs produced for the films have been nominated for Academy Awards for Original Song, including Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die",[130] Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better",[131] Sheena Easton's "For Your Eyes Only"[132] and Adele's "Skyfall".[133] Adele won the award at the 85th Academy Awards. For the non-Eon produced Casino Royale, Burt Bacharach's score included "The Look of Love", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song.[134]
Video games
Main article: James Bond (games)
In 1983, the first Bond video game, developed and published by Parker Brothers, was released for the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Atari 800, the Commodore 64 and the ColecoVision.[135] Since then, there have been numerous video games either based on the films or using original storylines. In 1997, the first-person shooter video game GoldenEye 007 was developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64, based on the 1995 Pierce Brosnan film GoldenEye.[136] The game received very positive reviews,[137] won the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award for UK Developer of the Year in 1998[138] and sold over eight million copies worldwide,[139][140] grossing $250 million.[141]
In 1999, Electronic Arts acquired the licence and released Tomorrow Never Dies on 16 December 1999.[142] In October 2000, they released The World Is Not Enough[143] for the Nintendo 64[144] followed by 007 Racing for the PlayStation on 21 November 2000.[145] In 2003, the company released James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing,[146] which included the likenesses and voices of Pierce Brosnan, Willem Dafoe, Heidi Klum, Judi Dench and John Cleese, amongst others.[147] In November 2005, Electronic Arts released a video game adaptation of 007: From Russia with Love,[148] which involved Sean Connery's image and voice-over for Bond.[148] In 2006 Electronic Arts announced a game based on then-upcoming film Casino Royale: the game was cancelled because it would not be ready by the film's release in November of that year. With MGM losing revenue from lost licensing fees, the franchise was removed from EA to Activision.[149] Activision subsequently released the 007: Quantum of Solace game on 31 October 2008, based on the film of the same name.[150]
A new version of GoldenEye 007 featuring Daniel Craig was released exclusively for the Nintendo Wii and a handheld version for the Nintendo DS in November 2010.[151] A year later another new version was released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 under the title GoldenEye 007: Reloaded.[152][153] In October 2012 007 Legends was released, which featured one mission from each of the Bond actors of the Eon Productions' series.[154]
Guns, vehicles and gadgets
Main articles: List of James Bond firearms, List of James Bond vehicles and List of James Bond gadgets



 The Walther PPK is the most famous of Bond's handguns
Guns
For the first five novels, Fleming armed Bond with a Beretta 418[155] until he received a letter from a thirty-one-year-old Bond enthusiast and gun expert, Geoffrey Boothroyd, criticising Fleming's choice of firearm for Bond,[156] calling it "a lady's gun – and not a very nice lady at that!"[157] Boothroyd suggested that Bond should swap his Beretta for a Walther PPK 7.65mm and this exchange of arms made it to Dr. No.[158] Boothroyd also gave Fleming advice on the Berns-Martin triple draw shoulder holster and a number of the weapons used by SMERSH and other villains.[159] In thanks, Fleming gave the MI6 Armourer in his novels the name Major Boothroyd and, in Dr. No, M introduces him to Bond as "the greatest small-arms expert in the world".[158] Bond also used a variety of rifles, including the Savage Model 99 in "For Your Eyes Only" and a Winchester .308 target rifle in "The Living Daylights".[155] Other handguns used by Bond in the Fleming books included the Colt Detective Special and a long-barrelled Colt .45 Army Special.[155]
The first Bond film, Dr. No, saw M ordering Bond to leave his Beretta behind and take up the Walther PPK,[160] which the film Bond used in eighteen films.[161] In Tomorrow Never Dies and the two subsequent films, Bond's main weapon was the Walther P99 semi-automatic pistol.[161]



 An Aston Martin DB5 as seen in Goldfinger.
Vehicles
In the early Bond stories Fleming gave Bond a battleship-grey Bentley 4½ Litre with an Amherst Villiers supercharger.[162] After Bond's car was written off by Hugo Drax in Moonraker, Fleming gave Bond a Mark II Continental Bentley, which he used in the remaining books of the series.[163] During Goldfinger, Bond was issued with an Aston Martin DB Mark III with a homing device, which he used to track Goldfinger across France. Bond returned to his Bentley for the subsequent novels.[163]
The Bond of the films has driven a number of cars, including the Aston Martin V8 Vantage,[164] during the 1980s, the V12 Vanquish[164] and DBS[165] during the 2000s, as well as the Lotus Esprit;[166] the BMW Z3,[167] BMW 750iL[167] and the BMW Z8.[167] He has, however, also needed to drive a number of other vehicles, ranging from a Citroën 2CV to a Routemaster Bus, amongst others.[168]
Bond's most famous car is the silver grey Aston Martin DB5, first seen in Goldfinger;[169] it later featured in Thunderball, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, Casino Royale and Skyfall.[170][171] The films have used a number of different Aston Martins for filming and publicity, one of which was sold in January 2006 at an auction in the US for $2,090,000 to an unnamed European collector.[172]
Gadgets

Small, one man, open-cockpit helicopter on a lawn about the size of a car next to it, with a man sitting in it.

 The Little Nellie autogyro with its creator and pilot, Ken Wallis
Fleming's novels and early screen adaptations presented minimal equipment such as the booby-trapped attaché case in From Russia with Love, although this situation changed dramatically with the films.[173] However, the effects of the two Eon-produced Bond films Dr. No and From Russia with Love had an effect on the novel The Man with the Golden Gun, through the increased number of devices used in Fleming's final story.[174]
For the film adaptations of Bond, the pre-mission briefing by Q Branch became one of the motifs that ran through the series.[175] Dr. No provided no spy-related gadgets, but a Geiger counter was used; industrial designer Andy Davey observed that the first ever onscreen spy-gadget was the attaché case shown in From Russia with Love, which he described as "a classic 007 product".[176] The gadgets assumed a higher profile in the 1964 film Goldfinger. The film's success encouraged further espionage equipment from Q Branch to be supplied to Bond, although the increased use of technology led to an accusation that Bond was over-reliant on equipment, particularly in the later films.[177]




If it hadn't been for Q Branch, you'd have been dead long ago!
Q, to Bond, Licence to Kill
Davey noted that "Bond's gizmos follow the zeitgeist more closely than any other ... nuance in the films"[176] as they moved from the potential representations of the future in the early films, through to the brand-name obsessions of the later films.[176] It is also noticeable that, although Bond uses a number of pieces of equipment from Q Branch, including the Little Nellie autogyro,[178] a jet pack[179] and the exploding attaché case,[180] the villains are also well-equipped with custom-made devices,[176] including Scaramanga's golden gun,[181] Rosa Klebb's poison-tipped shoes,[182] Oddjob's steel-rimmed bowler hat[183] and Blofeld's communication devices in his agents' vanity case.[176]
Cultural impact
See also: James Bond parodies
Cinematically, Bond has been a major influence within the spy genre since the release of Dr. No in 1962,[184] with 22 secret agent films released in 1966 alone attempting to capitalise on its popularity and success.[185] The first parody was the 1964 film Carry On Spying showing the villain Dr. Crow being overcome by agents who included James Bind (Charles Hawtry) and Daphne Honeybutt (Barbara Windsor).[186] One of the films that reacted against the portrayal of Bond was the Harry Palmer series, whose first film, The Ipcress File was released in 1965. The eponymous hero of the series was what academic Jeremy Packer called an "anti-Bond",[187] or what Christoph Lindner calls "the thinking man's Bond".[188] The Palmer series were produced by Harry Saltzman, who also used key crew members from the Bond series, including designer Ken Adam, editor Peter R. Hunt and composer John Barry.[189] The four "Matt Helm" films starring Dean Martin were released between 1966 and 1969,[190] the "Flint" series starring James Coburn provided two films in 1966 and 1969,[191] whilst The Man from U.N.C.L.E. also moved onto the cinema screen, with eight films released: all were testaments to Bond's prominence in popular culture.[128] More recently, the Austin Powers series by writer, producer and comedian Mike Myers[192] and other parodies such as the 2003 film Johnny English[193] have also used elements from or parodied the Bond films.
Following the release of the film Dr. No in 1962, the line "Bond ... James Bond", became a catch phrase that entered the lexicon of Western popular culture: writers Cork and Scivally said of the introduction in Dr. No that the "signature introduction would become the most famous and loved film line ever".[194] In 2001 it was voted as the "best-loved one-liner in cinema" by British cinema goers[195] and in 2005, it was honoured as the 22nd greatest quotation in cinema history by the American Film Institute as part of their 100 Years Series.[196] The 2005 American Film Institute's '100 Years' series also recognised the character of James Bond himself in the film as the third greatest film hero.[197] He was also placed at number eleven on a similar list by Empire.[198] Premiere also listed Bond as the fifth greatest movie character of all time.[199]
The twenty-three James Bond films produced by Eon Productions, which have grossed $4,910,000,000 in box office returns alone,[200] have made the series one of the highest-grossing ever. It is estimated that since Dr. No, a quarter of the world's population have seen at least one Bond film.[201] The UK Film Distributors' Association have stated that the importance of the Bond series of films to the British film industry cannot be overstated, as they "form the backbone of the industry".[202]
Television also saw the effect of Bond films, with the NBC series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,[203] which was described as the "first network television imitation" of Bond,[204] largely because Fleming provided advice and ideas on the development of the series, even giving the main character the name Napoleon Solo.[205] Other 1960s television imitations of Bond included I Spy,[191] and Get Smart.[206]
By 2012, James Bond had become such a symbol of the United Kingdom that the character, played by Craig, appeared in the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics as Queen Elizabeth II's escort.[207]
Merchandising
Throughout the life of the film series, there have been a number of tie-in products released.[208] The first James Bond fragrance was launched in the UK on 19 September 2012 under the name "James Bond 007".[209]
See also

Portal icon James Bond portal
Main article: Outline of James Bond
Bibliography of James Bond
9007 James Bond Asteroid named after the character
Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet
Shaken, not stirred
The Battle for Bond
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Outline of James Bond
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to James Bond:
James Bond is a fictional character created in 1953 by journalist and writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. The character has also been used in the long running and second most financially successful English language film series to date (behind Harry Potter). The series started in 1962 with Dr. No—with Sean Connery as Bond—and has continued most recently with the 2012 release of Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig as Bond.



Contents  [hide]
1 Characters 1.1 Villains
1.2 Henchmen
1.3 Allies
2 Novels 2.1 Related works
3 Films
4 Gadgets, vehicles and equipment
5 Music
6 Games
7 James Bond's Benzedrine usage
8 Parodies, spin-offs and fandom
9 See also
10 References
11 External links

Characters[edit]



Gun barrel sequence.James Bond (literary character) Inspirations for James Bond
James Bond Jr.
Young Bond
Shaken, not stirred
Vesper cocktail
List of actors considered for the James Bond character
Bond girl
Villains[edit]
List of James Bond villains
Henchmen[edit]
List of James Bond henchmen
Allies[edit]
List of James Bond allies
Novels[edit]
James Bond novels List of James Bond novels
Ian Fleming Publications Ian Fleming Casino Royale
Live and Let Die
Moonraker
Diamonds are Forever
From Russia, With Love
Dr No
Goldfinger
For Your Eyes Only From a View to a Kill
For Your Eyes Only
Quantum of Solace
Risico
The Hildebrand Rarity
Thunderball
The Spy Who Loved Me
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
You Only Live Twice
The Man with the Golden Gun
Octopussy and The Living Daylights Octopussy
The Property of a Lady
The Living Daylights
007 in New York

Kingsley Amis as Robert Markham Colonel Sun
Christopher Wood James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me
James Bond and Moonraker
John Gardner Licence Renewed
For Special Services
Icebreaker
Role of Honour
Nobody Lives For Ever
No Deals, Mr. Bond
Scorpius
Win, Lose or Die
Licence to Kill (novelisation)
Brokenclaw
The Man from Barbarossa
Death is Forever
Never Send Flowers
SeaFire
GoldenEye (novelisation)
COLD
Raymond Benson Blast From the Past
Zero Minus Ten
Tomorrow Never Dies (novelisation)
The Facts of Death
Midsummer Night's Doom
Live at Five
The World Is Not Enough (novelisation)
High Time to Kill
Doubleshot
Never Dream of Dying
The Man with the Red Tattoo
Die Another Day (novelisation)
The Heart of Erzulie
Charlie Higson (Young Bond) SilverFin
Blood Fever
Double or Die
Hurricane Gold
By Royal Command
A Hard Man to Kill
Samantha Weinberg as Kate Westbrook (The Moneypenny Diaries) Guardian Angel
Secret Servant
Final Fling
For Your Eyes Only, James
Moneypenny's First Date with Bond
Sebastian Faulks Devil May Care
Jeffery Deaver Carte Blanche
William Boyd Solo

List of James Bond novel locations
Related works[edit]
James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007
The James Bond Dossier
The Book of Bond or, Every Man His Own 007
The James Bond Bedside Companion
Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier
Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report
The Battle for Bond
James Bond Encyclopedia
For Your Eyes Only: Behind the Scenes of the James Bond Films
Little Nellie 007
James Bond: The Secret World of 007
Films[edit]
                       
James Bond in film Eon Productions Sean Connery Dr. No
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
George Lazenby On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Sean Connery Diamonds Are Forever
Roger Moore Live and Let Die
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
A View to a Kill
Timothy Dalton The Living Daylights
Licence to Kill
Pierce Brosnan GoldenEye
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World Is Not Enough
Die Another Day
Daniel Craig Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace
Skyfall

Non-Eon films and television Never Say Never Again - by Producers Sales Organization (as Taliafilm) - 1983
Casino Royale (Climax!)
Casino Royale (1967)

James Bond films on television
List of James Bond film locations
Gun barrel sequence
List of cast and characters in the James Bond film series List of recurring actors and actresses in the James Bond film series
Albert R. Broccoli
Harry Saltzman
Michael G. Wilson
Barbara Broccoli
Gadgets, vehicles and equipment[edit]
List of James Bond vehicles James Bond Car Collection
List of James Bond firearms
List of James Bond gadgets
Music[edit]
James Bond music John Barry
David Arnold
James Bond Theme Monty Norman
James Bond Theme (Moby's re-version)

Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project
Meets James Bond - Sounds Orchestral, 1965
Mister James Bond - Jean-Jacques Perrey, 1968
The Best of Bond...James Bond
Soundtracks: Dr. No
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger "Goldfinger"
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service "We Have All the Time in the World"
Diamonds Are Forever
Live and Let Die "Live and Let Die"
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me "Nobody Does It Better"
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only "For Your Eyes Only"
Octopussy "All Time High"
A View to a Kill "A View to a Kill"
The Living Daylights "The Living Daylights"
"Where Has Everybody Gone?"
Licence to Kill "If You Asked Me To"
GoldenEye "GoldenEye"
Tomorrow Never Dies "Tomorrow Never Dies"
The World Is Not Enough "The World Is Not Enough"
Die Another Day "Die Another Day"
Casino Royale "You Know My Name"
Quantum of Solace "Another Way to Die"
Skyfall "Skyfall"



Games[edit]
                    
James Bond (games) Videogames: James Bond 007
A View to a Kill
Goldfinger
The Living Daylights
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Stealth Affair
James Bond Jr.
James Bond: The Duel
GoldenEye 007 (N64)
James Bond 007 (GB)
Tomorrow Never Dies (PS)
The World Is Not Enough (N64, PS, GB)
007 Racing (PS)
Agent Under Fire (PS2, GC, Xbox)
Nightfire (PS2, GC, Xbox, GCA, PC, Mac)
Everything or Nothing (PS2, GC, Xbox, GCA)
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (PS2, GC, Xbox, NDS)
From Russia With Love (PS2, GC, Xbox, PSP)
Quantum of Solace (PS2, PS3, Wii, xbox360, PC, NDS)
GoldenEye 007 (Wii, NDS aka Goldeneye:Realoded on PS3, Xbox360)
Blood Stone (NDS, PS3, Xbox360, PC)
007 Legends (Wii U, PS3, Xbox360, PC)
Role-playing game James Bond 007, Role-Playing in Her Majesty's Secret Service
Card game Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond



James Bond's Benzedrine usage[edit]
James Bond is known to take Benzedrine in its various forms throughout the novels.[1][2]
Parodies, spin-offs and fandom[edit]
GoldenEye: Source
James Bond Car Collection
James Bond (comics) James Bond (comic strip)
List of James Bond comics
005
James Bond Jr. The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½
List of James Bond Jr. characters
List of James Bond Jr. episodes
Videogames
Avakoum Zahov versus 07
Per Fine Ounce
The Killing Zone
Your Deal, Mr. Bond
Night Probe!
Trading Futures
Parodies of James Bond Austin Powers (film series) Austin Powers (character)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Carry On Spying
Agent 8 3/4
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
Licensed to Kill (1965 film)
Our Man Flint
In Like Flint
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
The Last of the Secret Agents
OK Connery
Get Smart
Archer
More...
The Incredible World of James Bond
James Bond fandom
Hot Shots Calendar 0014
See also[edit]

Portal icon James Bond portal
Outline of fiction

References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Fleming, Ian (1954). Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape. p. 191. ISBN 9781612185446.
2.Jump up ^ Fleming, Ian (1962). The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape. p. 111. ISBN 9781612185538.
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