Vesper (cocktail) Vesper (cocktail) The Vesper or Vesper Martini is a cocktail that was originally made of gin, vodka, and Kina Lillet. The drink was invented and named by Ian Fleming in the 1953 James Bond novel "Casino Royale". Fleming continues with Bond telling the barman, after taking a long sip, "Excellent ... but if you can get a vodka made with grain instead of potatoes, you will find it still better," and then adds in an aside, ""Mais n'enculons pas des mouches"" (—a vulgar French expression meaning "let's not split hairs"). Bond in the next chapter, "Pink Lights and Champagne", names
Bond girl to have married other men (in "From Russia With Love" and "The Man With the Golden Gun" respectively), and in "Doctor No", Bond briefly wonders about Solitaire. In Licence Renewed it is specifically noted in an epilogue that Bond and Lavender Peacock stopped seeing each other after a brief romance. A unique case is Mary Goodnight, who appears in the novels, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and "You Only Live Twice" as Bond's secretary, before becoming a full-fledged Bond girl in "The Man With the Golden Gun". The role of a Bond girl, as it has evolved in the films,