Dr. No (film) that followed him. Bond, after overpowering Quarrel and his friend Puss Feller, meets Quarrel's passenger, Felix Leiter, a CIA agent on the same mission as Bond. The CIA has traced the radio jamming signal to Jamaica, but has not determined its exact origin. Quarrel, who is assisting Leiter, reveals that he had been guiding Strangways around the nearby islands to collect mineral samples. He also mentions the reclusive Dr. No, the owner of Crab Key, an island rigorously protected against trespassers by an armed security force. In Strangways' house, Bond finds a receipt from Professor R.J. Dent concerning rock samples.
James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 introduced to a retired James Bond — who is in his fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, and married to Honeychile Ryder, the heroine of "Dr. No". Most of "James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007" is Bond telling his life story, including school and first MI6 missions, referring to most every novel and short story and, briefly, to "Colonel Sun", the Robert Markham series-continuation novel. At conclusion, as Bond rushes to another mission (contrary to mandatory retirement), John Pearson is invited to assume Ian Fleming's scribal duties, like Dr. Watson assumed with Sherlock Holmes. Out of print since the 1990s, a