007 Book: Dr. No (1958)
June 27, 2014
Bond book: Dr. NoAuthor: Ian Fleming
Publication date: 31 March 1958
Dr. No is the sixth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 31 March 1958.
The story centres on Bond’s investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of a fellow MI6 operative, Commander John Strangways and his secretary, Mary Trueblood. He establishes that Strangways had been investigating Dr. No, a Chinese operator of a guano mine on the Caribbean island of Crab Key; Bond travels to the island to investigate further. It is on Crab Key that Bond first finds Honeychile Rider and then Dr. No himself.
The story centres on Bond’s investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of a fellow MI6 operative, Commander John Strangways and his secretary, Mary Trueblood. He establishes that Strangways had been investigating Dr. No, a Chinese operator of a guano mine on the Caribbean island of Crab Key; Bond travels to the island to investigate further. It is on Crab Key that Bond first finds Honeychile Rider and then Dr. No himself.
CONTENTS
I. Hear You Loud and Clear
II. Choice of Weapons
III. Holiday Task
IV. Reception Committee
V. Facts and Figures
VI. The Finger on the Trigger
VII. Night Passage
VIII. The Elegant Venus
IX. Close Shaves
X. Dragon Spoor
XI. Amidst the Alien Cane
XII. The Thing
XIII. Mink-Lined Prison
XIV. Come Into My Parlour
XV. Pandora’s Box
XVI. Horizons of Agony
XVII. The Long Scream
XVIII. Killing Ground
XIX. A Shower of Death
XX. Slave-Time
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