#43 in Spy & espionage

Dr. No

Name: Dr. No
Author: Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming

First published 1958Original language EN

7.5

Score out of 10111 ratingsConfidence 43%: this much of the score is the readers’ own

#43 of 53 in Spy & espionage ahead of 19% of the category

Part of a seriesJames Bond51 volumes

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Set in: Jamaica
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“Dr. No” is Bond as sheer entertainment: a Jamaican adventure with a villain worth the journey to his island. This sixth novel reads easily and enjoyably, and some readers notice a hero more doubtful and human than his screen image. There are those who think the plot shallow, the early chapters too easy for Bond and the heroine one-dimensional.

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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-German operator of a guano mine on the fictional Caribbean island of Crab Key. Bond travels to the island and meets Honeychile Rider and later Doctor No.

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The sources average 7.3 across 111 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 43% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Spy & espionage average of 7.6. That is how 7.5 comes out.

Source	Average	Ratings	Weight
Hardcover	7.3	98	88%
Open Library	7.2	13	12%

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