Fleming wrote the novel in early 1957 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. The novel centres on Bond’s investigation into the disappearance of two fellow MI6 operatives. He establishes that they had been investigating Doctor No, a Chinese operator of a guano mine on the fictional Caribbean island of Crab Key. The story was adapted in 1962 as the first film in the Bond series.
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Dr. No is the sixth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the novel in early 1957 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. The novel centres on Bond’s investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of two fellow MI6 operatives. He establishes that they had been investigating Doctor No, a Chinese operator of a guano mine on the fictional Caribbean island of Crab Key. Bond travels to the island and meets Honeychile Rider and later Doctor No. The story was adapted in 1962 as the first film in the Bond series, with Sean Connery in the lead role. In 2008 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a version, with Toby Stephens as Bond. The book was the first of Fleming’s novels to face widespread negative criticism in Britain; Paul Johnson of the New Statesman dismissed the book as one of \”Sex, Snobbery and Sadism\”. When released on the American market it was received more favourably. It was serialised in the Daily Express, first in an abridged story form and later as a comic strip. In June 1956 the author began a collaboration with the producer Henry Morgenthau III on a planned television series, which was to feature the Caribbean-based character James Gunn. When the project foundered, Fleming adapted the ideas as the basis for a novel, provisionally titled The Wound Man. He used the idea for Dr No as the inspiration for his next Bond novel, Dr Gunn, which he published in January 1957.
In January 1957 he had published four successive novels from 1953 to 1957, including Dr Gunn and Dr Gunn: A Man Walks On To The Moon. In March 1958 he published the novel Dr Gunn; a novel that has since become one of the most popular James Bond novels of all time, with more than 50 million copies sold worldwide. It has been adapted as a film, with Connery playing Bond in 1962. The film version of the novel was released in 1962, and has since been adapted into a number of other Bond films, including James Bond: The Third Man and Dr James Bond 2: The Search for the Truth. The movie version of Dr No was released on 25 November 2012, and was released as a special edition of the book with a bonus DVD, Dr No: The Last Man on Crab Key, featuring a new interview with the author, Ian Fleming, as well as a new trailer for the film. The DVD was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the release of the first Bond film, Dr Bond: A man Walks on To The Truth, which is available on Blu-ray and DVD. The second film, James Bond 3: The Quest for Truth, is released on 26 November 2012. The third film, The Search For The Truth: The Second Man on the Third Man, is out on DVD and Blu-Ray on September 25, 2013. The fourth and final Bond film will be released on September 27, 2014, and the fifth on September 28, 2014.
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