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) $6 million after its first reissue in 1965, as a double feature with "From Russia with Love". The following reissue was in 1966 paired with "Goldfinger", to compensate the fact that the next Bond movie would only come out in the following year. The total gross of "Dr. No" ended up being $59.6 million worldwide, IGN listed it as sixth-best Bond film ever, "Entertainment Weekly" put it at seventh among Bond films, and Norman Wilner of MSN as twelfth best. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes sampled 51 reviews and judged 96% of the reviews as positive. President John F.