Dr. No (novel) Dr. No (novel) 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. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 31 March 1958. 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
Dr. No (film) leads Bond and Quarrel inland to an open swamp contaminated by radiation. After nightfall, they are attacked by the "dragon" of Crab Key, which is in reality a flamethrower-equipped tank. In the resulting battle, Quarrel is incinerated, while Bond and Ryder are kidnapped, decontaminated in Dr. No's lair, and rendered unconscious with drugged coffee. Upon waking, they are escorted to dine with Dr. No, a Chinese-German criminal scientist who has prosthetic metal hands due to radiation exposure. He reveals that he is a former member of a Chinese crime Tong, from whom he stole ten million dollars, and is now