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2[[caption-width-right:270:Ian Fleming's original sketch impression of James Bond]]
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4Before 007 toted his Walther PPK on [[Film/JamesBond the silver screen]], he was featured in a series of novels by Creator/IanFleming. The character first appeared in the novel ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'' (1953).
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6The Bond of the books is a much different character than the one in the films, which often parodied or even disregarded their sources. Given that Fleming was born in 1908, and wrote the novels in the [[TheFifties 1950s]] and [[TheSixties 1960s]], [[ValuesDissonance his books do not always display the kindest attitudes with regard to sex, race, and imperialism]].
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8Since Fleming died, other authors have continued the series. These authors include Kingsley Amis (under the pseudonym Robert Markham), John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd and Anthony Horowitz. There is also a series about a [[Literature/YoungBond Young James Bond]] and one about Moneypenny, called ''The Moneypenny Diaries''.
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10Creator/TheBBC have also adapted a number of the original Fleming novels into 90-minute radio dramas starring Creator/TobyStephens as Bond and an [[AllStarCast all-star cast]], which are [[TruerToTheText more straightforward adaptations of the novels]] than the Creator/EonProductions films. With the eighth adaptation, ''Live And Let Die'' in 2019, Stephens officially overtook Creator/RogerMoore as the most prolific Bond actor.
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14[[index]]
15[[folder:Ian Fleming]]
16The original novels and short stories by Ian Fleming. Ones marked with a cross have been adapted for radio:
17* ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'' (April, 1953)
18* ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'' (April, 1954)[[labelnote:†]]Adapted 2019[[/labelnote]]
19* ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}'' (April, 1955)[[labelnote:†]]Adapted by the BBC, 2018. There is also a lost, possibly unlicensed South African version from the 50s starring Bob Holness, the very first Bond adaptation.[[/labelnote]]
20* ''Literature/DiamondsAreForever'' (March, 1956)[[labelnote:†]]Adapted 2015[[/labelnote]]
21* ''[[Literature/FromRussiaWithLove From Russia, with Love]]'' (April, 1957)[[labelnote:†]]Adapted 2012[[/labelnote]]
22* ''Literature/DrNo'' (March, 1958)[[labelnote:†]]Adapted 2008[[/labelnote]]
23* ''Literature/{{Goldfinger}}'' (March, 1959)[[labelnote:†]]Adapted 2010[[/labelnote]]
24* ''Literature/ForYourEyesOnly'' (April, 1960). Short story collection. A couple of the stories had been previously published in magazines.
25** "Quantum of Solace" (May, 1959). Story idea suggested by Blanche Blackwell. Story also serves as Fleming's homage to the short stories of W. Somerset Maugham.
26** "The Hildebrand Rarity" (March, 1960)
27** "From a View to a Kill"
28** "For Your Eyes Only". The eponymous story of the collection.
29** "Risico"
30* ''Literature/{{Thunderball}}'' (March, 1961). First appearance of Ernst Stavro Blofeld.[[labelnote:†]]Adapted 2016[[/labelnote]]
31* ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' (April, 1962)
32* ''Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' (April, 1963). Second appearance of Ernst Stavro Blofeld.[[labelnote:†]]Adapted 2014[[/labelnote]]
33* ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' (April, 1964). Third and last appearance of Ernst Stavro Blofeld.[[labelnote:†]]Adapted 1990, starring Creator/MichaelJayston as Bond[[/labelnote]]
34* ''Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' (April, 1965)[[labelnote:†]]Adapted 2020[[/labelnote]]
35* ''Literature/OctopussyAndTheLivingDaylights'' (June, 1966). Short story collection. All stories had been previously published in magazines. The original edition included two of them, later editions added the rest.
36** "The Living Daylights" (February, 1962)
37** "007 in New York" (October, 1963)
38** "The Property of a Lady" (November, 1963)
39** "Octopussy" (March-April, 1966)
40[[/folder]]
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42[[folder:Kingsley Amis]]
43* ''Literature/ColonelSun'' (March, 1968) by Kingsley Amis, written under the pseudonym Robert Markham.
44[[/folder]]
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46[[folder:John Gardner]]
47* ''Literature/LicenceRenewed'' (1981)
48* ''Literature/ForSpecialServices'' (1982)
49* ''Literature/{{Icebreaker}}'' (July, 1983)
50* ''Literature/RoleOfHonour'' (1984)
51* ''Literature/NobodyLivesForEver'' (1986)
52* ''Literature/NoDealsMrBond'' (May, 1987)
53* ''Literature/{{Scorpius}}'' (June, 1988)
54* ''Literature/WinLoseOrDie'' (1989)
55* ''Literature/{{Brokenclaw}}'' (1990)
56* ''Literature/TheManFromBarbarossa'' (1991)
57* ''Literature/DeathIsForever'' (1992)
58* ''Literature/NeverSendFlowers'' (1993)
59* ''Literature/SeaFire'' (1994)
60* ''Literature/{{COLD}}'' (1996), also known as ''Cold Fall''. Gardner retired following this novel, facing health problems.
61[[/folder]]
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63[[folder:Raymond Benson]]
64* "Blast from the Past" (January, 1997). Short story, sequel to ''You Only Live Twice''.
65* ''Literature/ZeroMinusTen'' (April, 1997)
66* ''Literature/TheFactsOfDeath'' (1998)
67* "Midsummer Night's Doom" (January, 1999). Short story. Bond's mission takes him into the Playboy Mansion. Hugh Hefner and Lisa Dergan are prominently featured.
68* ''Literature/HighTimeToKill'' (May, 1999)
69* "Live at Five" (November, 1999). Short story. Janet Davies, a real-life television reporter, is prominently featured.
70* ''Literature/DoubleShot'' (May, 2000). A sequel to ''High Time to Kill''.
71* ''Literature/NeverDreamOfDying'' (2001). Continues and concludes the plots of ''High Time to Kill'' and ''[=DoubleShot=]''.
72* ''Literature/TheManWithTheRedTattoo'' (May, 2002). Benson resigned his writing duties following the publication of the novelization of ''Die Another Day'', wishing to work on non-series novels.
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75[[folder:One Shots]]
76* ''Literature/DevilMayCare'' (May, 2008) by Sebastian Faulks. Set in 1967.
77* ''Carte Blanche'' (May, 2011) by Jeffery Deaver. A reboot set in the 2010s, where Bond was born c. 1979, and his current mission involves investigating the deaths of his parents, who served as agents during the Cold War.
78* ''Literature/{{Solo|JamesBond}}'' (September, 2013) by William Boyd. Set in 1969.
79* ''On His Majesty's Secret Service'' (May, 2023) by Charlie Higson. First novel/Bond adventure set under the reign of UsefulNotes/CharlesIII.
80[[/folder]]
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82[[folder:Anthony Horowitz]]
83* ''Literature/TriggerMortis'' (September, 2015). Set just after ''Goldfinger'', it contains small amounts of material written by Fleming.
84[[/index]]
85* ''Forever and a Day'' (May, 2018). Set [[{{Prequel}} just before]] ''Casino Royale'', telling the story of Bond's first foray as Agent 007.
86[[index]]
87* ''Literature/WithAMindToKill'' (May, 2022). Set just after ''Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', M is dead, and the one man missing from the graveside is his killer... James Bond.
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90[[folder:Film Novelizations]]
91* ''[[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me]]'' (1977) by Christopher Wood. Quite different from its source, it added characters and organizations from the Fleming novels to the plot, and incorporates the events of the film into the literary Bond's continuity.
92* ''[[Film/{{Moonraker}} James Bond and Moonraker]]'' (1979) by Christopher Wood. Mostly faithful to its source, though it excluded part of the film's subplots.
93* ''Film/LicenceToKill'' (1989) by John Gardner. Attempted to incorporate the events of the film into the literary Bond's continuity, [[ContinuitySnarl with strange results.]]
94* ''Film/GoldenEye'' (1995) by John Gardner. Mostly faithful to its source, expanded certain scenes, dialogues, and character interactions. Also attempts to incorporate the events of the film into the literary Bond's continuity, chiefly Messervy's retirement and replacement by [[Creator/JudiDench Barbara Mawdsley]].
95* ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' (1997) by Raymond Benson. Attempts to incorporate the events of the film in the literary Bond's continuity. Film characters receive expanded backgrounds, and dialogue. Novel characters are added to the plot.
96* ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' (1999) by Raymond Benson. Some details were changed to fit with the literary Bond's continuity. An unnamed assassin from the film received a name and an expanded role.
97* ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' (2002) by Raymond Benson. Mostly faithful to its source, though Benson changed the geographic setting of certain scenes. The villains, Tan-Sun Moon and Miranda Frost, received more detailed backgrounds, expanded scenes, and additional exploration of their motives.
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100[[folder:Spin-Offs and Other]]
101* ''003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior'' (1967) by R. D. Mascott (pseudonym). The novel covers the adventures of a namesake nephew of Bond.
102* ''James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007'' (1973) by John Pearson. A retired James Bond narrates his life story to a biographer.
103* ''The Moneypenny Diaries'' -- By Samantha Weinberg (under the pseudonym "Kate Westbrook"), the series features the story of Miss Jane Moneypenny, a supporting character. The stories fit in between some of the original Fleming novels, and offer background and character development to the title character, as well as filling in the blanks of certain eras of Bond's life.
104** ''The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel'' (October, 2005). Placed between ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' and ''You Only Live Twice''.
105** ''Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries'' (November, 2006). Placed within the same period as ''The Man with the Golden Gun''.
106** "For Your Eyes Only, James" (November, 2006). Short story, features Moneypenny and Bond sharing a weekend vacation in September, 1956.
107** "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond" (November, 2006). Short story, placed prior to ''Casino Royale''. Moneypenny and recently assigned 007 meet for the first time.
108** ''The Moneypenny Diaries: Final Fling'' (May, 2008). Events placed c. 1964, explicitly following ''The Man with the Golden Gun''. Moneypenny is searching for a mole within the Secret Service.
109* ''Literature/YoungBond'' -- Features the [[TheThirties 1930s]] adventures of a teenaged James Bond. For more details, see the relevant entry. Originally written by Charlie Higson, then Steve Cole.
110** ''Literature/SilverFin'' (March, 2005)
111** ''Literature/BloodFever'' (January, 2006)
112** ''Literature/DoubleOrDie'' (January, 2007)
113** ''Literature/HurricaneGold'' (September, 2007)
114** ''Literature/ByRoyalCommand'' (September, 2008)
115*** ''Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier'' (October, 2009) -- A supplementary book, which also features the short story "A Hard Man to Kill," set after ''Hurricane Gold''.
116** ''Literature/ShootToKill'' (November, 2014)
117** ''Literature/HeadsYouDie'' (May, 2016)
118** ''Literature/StrikeLightning'' (September, 2016)
119** ''Literature/RedNemesis'' (May, 2017)[[/index]]
120* ''Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond'': In 2015, Fleming's Bond novels became PublicDomain in Canada and other Life+50 countries, leading to the first multi-author short story collection. Contributors include Creator/CharlesStross.[[index]]
121* ''Double O Trilogy'' -- A planned trilogy by Kim Sherwood set in the PresentDay focusing on a new generation of 00 agents in the wake of James Bond's disappearance.
122** ''Literature/DoubleOrNothing'' (September, 2022)
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124[[/index]]
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127!!The series contains examples of:
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129* AbortedArc: Fleming does not continue the SMERSH storyline after ''Literature/{{Goldfinger}}'', where Auric Goldfinger is its foreign treasurer. By ''Literature/{{Thunderball}}'' they're said to have been disbanded by Khrushchev and subsumed into the greater KGB, and SPECTRE takes over as the villain for three of the next four novels. Other writers brought SMERSH back to tie up loose ends, and they return in (in-universe chronological order):
130** In ''Literature/TriggerMortis'' (set in 1957, immediately after ''Goldfinger''), they're the GreaterScopeVillain who hired the BigBad [[spoiler:to fake the destruction of an American space rocket in New York.]] It's mentioned that their leader General Grubozaboyschikov has [[YouHaveFailedMe vanished from sight]] since the failed assassination attempt on Bond in ''[[Literature/FromRussiaWithLove From Russia, with Love]]''.
131** They feature in the novelisation of ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' (which is written to fit the literary Bond continuity), now led by Nikitin from ''From Russia With Love''.
132** John Gardner brings SMERSH back in ''Literature/{{Icebreaker}}'' where [[spoiler:the entire eponymous operation is the organization's gambit to get Bond behind the Russian border where he can be easily delivered to Moscow. Capturing the BigBad was simply a beneficial side effect.]] Furthermore, SMERSH is an active participant in Bond's manhunt in ''Nobody Lives for Ever''. Finally, in ''No Deals, Mr Bond'', the SMERSH storyline ends when [[spoiler:Bond captures Grubozaboyschikov's successor, General Chernov.]]
133* AdaptedOut: Bond's housekeeper May and his secretary Loelia Ponsonby have yet to appear in any film. Given Bond's actual home has appeared only a handful of times and he's never seen doing office-work [[note]]Though both OHMSS and DAD establish that he does HAVE an office[[/note]], one supposes they might exist. Loelia, in particular, may be redundant as she had many of her characteristics [[CompositeCharacter merged]] into the films' version of Moneypenny.
134* AffectionateParody: Fleming is said to have written the books as a ''parody'' of the spy thrillers of the time. Meaning that all those [[TuxedoAndMartini James Bond parodies]] are parodies of a parody.
135* AuthorTract: Bond tended to parrot quite a few of Fleming's [[http://www.andmagazine.com/us/14016.html own views,]] sometimes to Fleming's chagrin.
136* ArcNumber: 007, naturally.
137* BeautyEqualsGoodness: While the primary antagonist is generally an ugly man, he often has a beautiful female assistant (a Bond Girl progenitor) who ends up seduced by Bond and performs a HeelFaceTurn (to the extent that she's ever aware of the antagonist's plot to begin with).
138* BroadStrokes: Raymond Benson was given free rein to include or disregard John Gardner's novels as he wished. Benson's novels reference elements of Gardner's - Bond mentions switching sidearm to the ASP 9, smokes Simmons cigarettes, mentions Gardner-created love interests and [[Film/{{Goldeneye}} Barbara Mawdsley is M]], but he also ignores/retcons major things like Bond's RankUp to a Captain and appointment to leader of the Double-O section (and how before that it was disbanded for over a decade).
139* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The Bond of ''Casino Royale'' is a far more realistic, flawed character than the one shown in the latter books. In turn, the films took the post-''Casino Royale'' character and inflated his traits into the James Bond popularly known today.
140* ComicBookTime: Bond is said to be eight years from retirement (ergo, thirty-seven) during the third novel ''Moonraker'', but Fleming otherwise kept his age nebulously between 35 and 40, shuffling his birth year forward accordingly. Later writers have embraced this, and Bond has remained perpetually in his late thirties from the 1950s to the 2010s.
141* ContinuitySnarl: John Gardner fitted his film novelizations into the continuity of his continuing series, which led to some unavoidable oddities when he had to reconcile ''Film/LicenceToKill'', despite it being a loose adaptation of elements of ''Live and Let Die'', ''The Hildebrand Rarity'', and ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' stories. The result includes such ridiculousness as Felix Leiter getting fed to a shark ''twice'' in his lifetime (this time, the shark eats his prosthetic and the villains don't notice), and the unexplainable (and so, unexplained) reappearance of Milton Krest.
142* CoolCar: Fleming was a car lover, and cars are frequently mentioned as Bond's "only hobby" - his personal cars include:
143** A [[Literature/{{Silverfin}} Bamford & Martin Sidevalve tourer he inherited from his Uncle Max]].
144** Its [[Literature/DoubleOrDie replacement]] and his most well-known car, a battleship grey 1930 supercharged 4.5L Bentley "Blower" he owned until Hugo Drax wrecked it in ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}''.
145** He replaced that with an open-topped Bentley Mk VI that he bought with the money he won from Drax.
146** By ''Literature/{{Thunderball}}'' he had sold that and bought an R-Type Bentley with a Mulliner fastback coupe body, again in battleship grey, that he dubbed "the Locomotive".
147** In ''Literature/{{Solo|JamesBond}}'' he puts the Locomotive out to pasture and buys a Jensen Interceptor.
148** In the John Gardner era, he initially drives a heavily (yet realistically) modified Saab 900 Turbo, the "Silver Beast", which Saab even made a promotional replica of. He later switches to a Bentley Mulsanne Turbo.
149* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: First mentioned in ''Live and Let Die'', [=MI6=] uses "Universal Exports" as a cover for their activities. Whenever Bond needed to contact [=MI6=] over an insecure line, he would act as a sales rep using corporate lingo to hide the real message. It's later shown in ''Moonraker'' that [=MI6=] uses other fictitious names such as "Radio Tests Ltd.," "Delaney Bros. (1940) Ltd" and the "Omnium Corporation" as covers for their offices in London.
150** Deconstructed in ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service''. By then, every spy agency and even Blofeld knew who "Universal Exports" really was, so [=MI6=] was forced to use "Transworld Consortium" as a new cover name in ''The Man with the Golden Gun''. John Gardner would return to Universal Exports with his books.
151* CutleryEscapeAid: In ''Dr. No'', Bond sneaks a lighter and carving knife from the dinner table to aid in his escape. In ''Trigger Mortis'', Bond does the same to use as a digging tool when buried alive.
152* DeadMansTriggerFinger: Hoo boy. Whenever a mook dies, and if he's holding an automatic weapon, chances are it'll keep firing until the ammo runs out.
153* DirtyCommunists:
154** Since Bond debuted during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, his most frequent nemesis in the early novels is the SMERSH, the Soviet counter-espionage organization whose name was an acronym for "Death to Spies". To be more precise, while the primary antagonist may be a ScaryBlackMan, a Nazi commando or an [[YellowPeril inscrutable oriental]], their plots are generally [[TheManBehindTheMan financed and finessed by SMERSH]].
155** The tradition is continued in Gardner's eighties novels. Perhaps taken to the extreme with Wolfgang Weisen from ''Death is Forever'' who all but ''worships'' Josef Stalin.
156* DisappearedDad: lost his parents in a climbing accident in the French Alps when he was 11. [[AmbiguousSituation It's unknown what happened to his aunt Charmian, but it can be presumed she died sometime before 007 turned 18.]] Bond in ''You Only Live Twice'' fathered a son with Kissy Suzuki (the only one of his ''[[ReallyGetsAround many]]'' lovers within the books whom he impregnated). Initially the son was unnamed, only briefly mentioned, with Bond unaware of him. Then the sequel novel ''Blast From The Past'' in 1997, written by Raymond Benson, which reveals he became aware of his son years later (who'd been named James Suzuki). However they had little contact, with Bond not having a role in James' life aside from his paying child support and for his son to attend a university. [[spoiler:Nonetheless, later in the very same story he avenges [[OutlivingOnesOffspring James' murder]] by [[{{Revenge}} killing Irma Bunt]], his murderer.]]
157* {{Eagleland}}: While the British are aware of and mildly resent the power and rising influence of the CIA and the American government, the latter will help Bond on a mission to the best of their ability (for example, by fronting the money for Bond's stake at the card game in ''Casino Royale'' after Felix recognises that Bond is more likely than him to beat Le Chiffre). Mostly, any conflict stems from different techniques rather than different goals.
158* EliteAgentsAboveTheLaw: James Bond and his license to kill...as well as any number of crimes in the course of his mission.
159* TheEmpire: The Fleming books were written during the interlude between the independence of India and the wave of decolonization in the mid-1960s. The British Empire is still intact in the Caribbean, where in addition to a local [=MI6=] field office, Bond will liaise with colonial officials.
160* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: In the novels, bad guys of radically different ideologies have no trouble working together. At the apex of this is SPECTRE, which is headed by members from both Eastern European secret police and the Sicilian Mafia, not to mention former Soviets and Nazis. How exactly did Blofeld manage that?
161* EvilRedhead: Four main villains (Le Chiffre, Hugo Drax, Auric Goldfinger and Scaramanga) are described as having various shades of red hair.
162* FoodPorn: Since the original books were written shortly after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, when rationing was still in force (at least in Britain) a lot of the exquisite and fancy food would be the stuff of fantasies for the people reading it. There's even a whole paragraph on Bond eating an avocado, which was not available ''at all'' in British grocery stores until many years after publication. The high point is possibly the lovingly described meal that Bond and M eat at M's club in ''{{Literature/Moonraker}}'', which includes smoked salmon, a marrow bone, fresh strawberries, expensive wines and cognac, and shots of Wolfschmidt vodka from Latvia (which Bond semi-superstitiously sprinkles some ground black pepper into). Then there's the short story "007 in New York", which mostly consists of Bond wondering where to go to eat when visiting said city [[note]] it even has Bond's preferred recipe for scrambled eggs (basically, use more butter than you usually would, and serve with pink champagne)[[/note]].
163** Subverted in ''{{Literature/Thunderball}}'', in which Bond and Leiter dine in a Bahamian restaurant in which the food is lovingly described on the menu in fancy prose, but Leiter gloomily predicts that it'll probably be crap. [[spoiler:It is, but they eat it anyway because they're hungry.]] Leiter even goes so far as to berate the waiter for the poor quality of their Martinis and give him strict instructions on how to properly prepare it
164* FromNobodyToNightmare: Blofeld started out as a low-level clerk for the Polish postal service in the 1930s, but eventually rose to the top of the criminal food-chain as the nefarious head of SPECTRE.
165* HerosClassicCar: Classic cars are frequently described as Bond's "only hobby". From ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'' to ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}'' Bond drives a 1930 battleship-grey Bentley 4.5 litre with an Amherst Villiers supercharger.[[note]]Fleming variously described it as a 1930, '33 and '37 model. Only the first can be true, as no Blowers were made after '31. ''Double Or Die'' splits the difference by establishing it's 1930 model that he bought in '33.[[/note]] A scene in ''Literature/DoubleOrDie'' depicts him buying it, after wrecking the Bamford & Martin he inherited from his Uncle Max. His later cars are 1950s and 60s model Bentleys and Astons -- classics now, but contemporary at the time.
166* HospitalEpilogue: ''Thunderball'' and ''The Man With the Golden Gun'' both end with Bond recovering in a hospital. (''Casino Royale'' also spends some time with Bond in hospital after the major action appears to be settled, but the book's not over.)
167* IconicSequelCharacter: Q (often referred to by his actual name, Boothroyd) doesn't appear until the sixth book.
168* InHarmsWay: While Bond hates killing people (unless they absolutely have to be removed from the world), he is bored by non-conflict oriented work, and gladly takes assignments which put him into danger. The former characterization varies between writers, but the latter is always prevalent. ''Colonel Sun'' even opens with Bond lamenting how boring it's gotten without any major assignments in a while, mere hours before stumbling upon M's kidnapping.
169* {{Jerkass}}:
170** James Bond starts off being intentionally portrayed as an extremely cold and ruthless ProfessionalKiller. Over the course of the novels, though, he becomes more caring and heroic.
171** Many of the villains' henchmen fit this much better.
172* MadeOfIron: The first few novels have Bond survive copious amounts of punishment.
173* MeaningfulName: Fleming loved these. In particular, his sexually suggestive names for female characters, like Pussy Galore, Mary Goodnight, and Honeychile Rider, have become an iconic and much-parodied part of the franchise.
174* MidSeasonUpgrade:
175** In ''Literature/DrNo'', Bond is forced to exchange his Beretta 418 to the Walther PPK after the former's suppressor gets stuck in his trouser waistband while he's fighting [[Literature/FromRussiaWithLove Rosa Klebb]]. He's also given a Smith & Wesson Centennial Airweight revolver in .38 Special, which he uses (and loses permanently) on Crab Key before finally using the PPK for the first time in the next story.
176** John Gardner's books have Bond change from the PPK to a FN M1903 in 9x20mm Browning Long, then several other sidearms before finally settling on the [=ASP=]. He also upgrades his car gun from a "long-barreled .45" to a Ruger Blackhawk, then a Super Redhawk, both in .44 Magnum.
177** In ''Carte Blanche'', Bond carries the PPK's modern successor, the PPS, in .40 S&W.
178* NebulousEvilOrganization: SMERSH (anti-espionage communists) and SPECTRE (criminals), while portrayed relatively realistically, fill these roles in Fleming's novels. Other writers introduced The Union (criminals/terrorists for hire), BAST (terrorists for hire) and COLD (fascists).
179* NominalHero: Bond in the novels is a sexist and homophobic character as well as a cold-blooded ProfessionalKiller. Ian Fleming noted in an interview that this was intentional.
180-->'''Ian Fleming:''' I don't think that he is necessarily a good guy or a bad guy. Who is? He's got his vices and very few perceptible virtues except patriotism and courage, which are probably not virtues anyway ... But I didn't intend for him to be a particularly likeable person.
181* NonviolentInitialConfrontation: A commonplace in the series. Creator/UmbertoEco calls this the "First Check" scene in the novels.
182* OriginsEpisode: The 2018 novel ''Forever and a Day'' by Creator/AnthonyHorowitz is set in 1950 and shows Bond joining the 00 Section. It was marketed as a {{Prequel}} to ''Literature/CasinoRoyale''.
183* OvertOperative: Bond barely bothers to keep up any pretense of being anything other than a spy - and to the extent that he does, random civilians around him are quick to penetrate his disguise, to say nothing of the actual bad guys.
184* ParentalAbandonment: Bond lost his parents in a climbing accident in the French Alps when he was 11. [[AmbiguousSituation It's unknown what happened to his aunt Charmian, who raised him after this, but it can be presumed she died sometime before 007 turned 18.]]
185* ProductPlacement: Hoo boy -- Ian Fleming was the ''original'' walking advertisement -- being a journalist, he used brand names for extra detail. This was considered cutting-edge back in TheFifties, to the point where Kingsley Amis called it the "Fleming Effect". For example, Bond specifies Gordon's gin when stating how to make a martini in ''Casino Royale'', and smokes Morland cigarettes (although he switches to Chesterfields when he's in the USA). Apparently Fleming didn't take any money for name-dropping products, but after publication he wasn't averse to the odd freebie.
186* RealMenTakeItBlack: In the books, Bond, unlike almost [[BritsLoveTea every other British person in the universe]], ''hates'' tea, preferring black coffee. In an obvious AuthorTract, Bond calls tea the ''opium of the masses'' and blames it in part for the fall of the British Empire for reasons he doesn't go into.
187* RedRightHand: Most antagonists are exceptionally ugly in one way or another - and they often dress and act in a way that draws attention to their ugliness.
188* {{Retcon}}: Overlaps with ComicBookTime and SeriesContinuityError.
189** In the early novels, we are given the impression that Bond has worked for the Secret Service since before [=WW2=] (indeed, the Soviet's file on Bond in ''From Russia, With Love'' states that he joined the Service in 1938). This is retconned by Bond's obituary (and official biography) in ''You Only Live Twice'', according to which Bond enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1941 as a teenager, and only joined the Service after the war. This leads to some strange results in the modern novels - ''Literature/YoungBond'' takes his birth year as 1920 to line up with the dates mentioned in the earliest books, but ''Solo'' has him turning 45 in 1969, consistent with ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'''s given birth year of 1924. Efforts to make [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_novels_and_short_stories#Fictional_chronologies an overarching fictional chronology]] also run into the problem of Fleming's occasionally erratic or contradictory mention of historical events that conflict with the novel's logical setting.
190** Benson's novels, which more closer resembled the movies than previous authors' novels, retconned much of Gardner's work. They reinstated the ''00'' section and reset many of the background characters, with the exception of a few minor continuity nods and aligning with the movie novelisations featuring Judi Dench's M.
191* SecondLove: Tracy [=DiVicenzo=] to Vesper Lynd. While there are a handful of other women he genuinely cares about, possibly to the point of love, Tracy's the only one he took to the altar. Sadly, her end was as tragic as Vesper's.
192* SeriesContinuityError:
193** In ''Casino Royale'' Bond recalls facing off against enemy agents over a gaming table before the war. However, his obituary in ''You Only Live Twice'' indicates that he joined the secret service after leaving the Navy at the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and that he joined the Navy in 1941 when he was underage. Of course, the latter ''could'' be a [[WatsonianVersusDoylist falsified report]]...
194** John Gardner's novels abandon the ''00'' section in its entirety, but M, of course, still refers to his favorite agent as 007. And then the ''GoldenEye'' novelization comes along with 006 as the key character of a flashback...
195* SexySecretary: Moneypenny, Mary Goodnight. Averted with the 00-section's secretary Loelia Ponsonby, whom all the 00s are in love with but she refuses to get involved with anyone who might be dead next week, so, out of ego, they call her "frigid". Bond still "wondered why he bothered with other women when the most darling of them all was his secretary."
196* SmitingEvilFeelsGood: Although this may arguably apply to some (not all) of the Bond movies, this trope is actually averted by Fleming, who consistently depicts Bond as someone who doesn't actually enjoy killing people (with [[spoiler:Blofeld]] being a possible exception, due to [[ItsPersonal the personal tie]]). Several books and stories even have Bond ruminating about the morality of what he does, and it's made apparent that his extremely heavy drinking and smoking is a combination of coping with the stress of the job and understanding that he's got a good chance of dying before his health would be affected anyway.
197* SpyFiction: Starts out as Stale Beer Flavor in ''Casino Royale''. Fleming's Bond has all the ingredients of the Martini flavored one but the world is still profoundly grim and depressing. The series would get lighter with each new book. By the time Raymond Benson took over as the author, the series had gone well into full-on Martini mode.
198* TheSyndicate:
199** SPECTRE. Fleming was worried that Cold War villains would get outdated and invented the organization as a politically neutral replacement for SMERSH. Their membership apparently consists of big names in the Mafia, the Unione Corse, various SecretPolice forces, and, well, SMERSH. Apparently all those disparate groups can reconcile vastly different ideologies under the [[EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily common banner of world domination]].
200** To hear the novels tell it, SMERSH itself was one of these. They have no compunction against working with gangsters like Mr. Big, career criminals like Goldfinger, or serial killers like Red Grant (not as unlikely as it sounds- the US, at least, has historically used crime lords as intelligence agents).
201* ATankardOfMooseUrine: M has a fondness for an extremely rough Algerian red wine nicknamed "the Infuriator". His club keeps bottles of it in their cellar for him, but refuses to include it on the wine list.
202* ThoseWackyNazis: Bond encounters his share of former Nazis and Hitler-wannabes. The fate of Nazis and Nazi scientists in the Cold War is touched upon in several novels.
203* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Eggs for Bond, a fondness he shared with Fleming himself. "007 in New York" even includes a recipe for scrambled eggs, which had previously appeared in Fleming's newspaper column, "Atticus."
204* VillainousCheekbones:
205** Dr. No has a pair that keep the patter of his smooth, seemingly hairless head.
206** The capungo in ''Goldfinger'' has recognizably "Aztec cheekbones".
207* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Usually inverted. Bond doesn't bat an eye killing [[BigBad Big Bads]] and their [[TheDragon Dragons]], but he is often quite reluctant to kill lowly mooks and/or agonizes about it afterwards. Not always, though.
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