![]() In fact it would be an ideal matter for James Bond to investigate. ![]() Their disappearance will have to be investigated but to M it seems to be an absurdly trivial matter. M assumes that they simply ran off together. The Secret Service doesn’t even know they were murdered. The reader certainly knows they were murdered but the reasons for the murder are entirely unknown. His secretary, Mary Trueblood, also a Secret Service agent, is also murdered. ![]() The Bond novels were in some ways Fleming’s attempt to deal with this unpleasant reality by denying it, and by creating a fantasy world in which it’s always the British Secret Service that saves the day.ĭr No begins with the murder of a man named Strangways, the Secret Service’s Head of Station in Jamaica. One of the recurring themes of the Bond novels is Fleming’s bitterness at the loss of the Empire and the declining power and influence of Britain in the post-war world. His first-hand knowledge of the island was obviously an advantage but to Fleming it offered other attractions as a setting, being one of the last outposts of the British Empire (Jamaica did not achieve independence until four years after the publication of Dr No). Fleming had owned a house in Jamaica since 1945. Bond would return to Jamaica once again in The Man with the Golden Gun. ![]() Dr No, published in 1958, is the sixth of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels.ĭr No takes Bond back to Jamaica which had been the setting for the second Bond novel, Live and Let Die. ![]()
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