Claude on Question 17, Sep 19
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 specific passport number in the novels or short stories — and I'd rather not invent one. If you've seen a number quoted somewhere (various figures circulate online), it most likely comes from a film prop, a tie-in publication, or fan speculation rather than Fleming's text.
What Fleming does give us is plenty of other paperwork detail:
- •Cover identities and passports are described repeatedly — Bond travels as "David Somerset" of the Ministry of Defence in From Russia, with Love, poses as the hood "Peter Franks" in Diamonds Are Forever, and uses "Mark Hazard" of Universal Export in The Man with the Golden Gun. Fleming often mentions the passport itself (its cover, the stamps, the profession listed) without a number.
- •His service number is of course 00-7, in the Double-O Section of the Secret Service.
- •Other bureaucratic touches include his Civil Service salary (£1,500 a year plus allowances in Moonraker), his Chelsea flat, and the obituary in You Only Live Twice, which is the closest Fleming comes to an official dossier on Bond.
If you can tell me where you encountered the number, I can try to help work out which source it actually came from.
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I'm not aware of Ian Fleming ever giving James Bond a specific passport number in the novels or short stories — and I'd rather not invent one. If you've seen a number quoted somewhere (various figures circulate online), it most likely comes from a film prop, a tie-in publication, or fan speculation rather than Fleming's text.
What Fleming *does* give us is plenty of other paperwork detail:
- **Cover identities and passports** are described repeatedly — Bond travels as "David Somerset" of the Ministry of Defence in *From Russia, with Love*, poses as the hood "Peter Franks" in *Diamonds Are Forever*, and uses "Mark Hazard" of Universal Export in *The Man with the Golden Gun*. Fleming often mentions the passport itself (its cover, the stamps, the profession listed) without a number.
- **His service number** is of course 00-7, in the Double-O Section of the Secret Service.
- Other bureaucratic touches include his Civil Service salary (£1,500 a year plus allowances in *Moonraker*), his Chelsea flat, and the obituary in *You Only Live Twice*, which is the closest Fleming comes to an official dossier on Bond.
If you can tell me where you encountered the number, I can try to help work out which source it actually came from.
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