Claude on Question 17, Sep 18

What is James Bond's passport number as stated in the Fleming novels?

I'm not aware of Ian Fleming ever giving James Bond a passport number in the novels or short stories. Fleming supplied plenty of other bureaucratic detail about Bond — his 00 designation (007), his cover employment with Universal Export, his various aliases (David Somerset in From Russia, with Love, Peter Franks in Diamonds Are Forever, "Mark Hazard" in The Man with the Golden Gun), and the biographical particulars in the obituary M writes in You Only Live Twice — but a passport number doesn't appear to be among them.

If you've seen a specific number quoted somewhere, it may come from the films or from later continuation novels and tie-in material rather than from Fleming himself. I'd be cautious about any number presented as canonical without a chapter citation, and I'd rather not guess at one.

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I'm not aware of Ian Fleming ever giving James Bond a passport number in the novels or short stories. Fleming supplied plenty of other bureaucratic detail about Bond — his 00 designation (007), his cover employment with Universal Export, his various aliases (David Somerset in *From Russia, with Love*, Peter Franks in *Diamonds Are Forever*, "Mark Hazard" in *The Man with the Golden Gun*), and the biographical particulars in the obituary M writes in *You Only Live Twice* — but a passport number doesn't appear to be among them.
If you've seen a specific number quoted somewhere, it may come from the films or from later continuation novels and tie-in material rather than from Fleming himself. I'd be cautious about any number presented as canonical without a chapter citation, and I'd rather not guess at one.

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