Dr. No (novel) No" was serialised in the "Daily Express", first in an abridged story form and later as a comic strip. 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. After recovering from serious poisoning inflicted by the SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb (in "From Russia, with Love") the MI6 agent James Bond is sent by his superior, M, on an undemanding mission to the British Colony of Jamaica. He is instructed to investigate the disappearance of Commander
Motifs in the James Bond film series instruction was honoured by the AFI as the 90th most-memorable cinema quotation. In order to distance his version of Bond from Sean Connery's, Roger Moore did not order a martini. The martini was present in the first Ian Fleming novel, "Casino Royale", where Bond eventually named it "The Vesper", after Vesper Lynd. The same recipe was then used for the 2006 film of the novel, with the martini ordered by Daniel Craig's Bond. Motifs in the James Bond film series The "James Bond" series of films contain a number of repeating, distinctive motifs which date from the series' inception with