In the first Gardner novel (License Renewed) he armed Bond with an NIB FN Model 1910 as his CCW piece. In the next Bond novel he equipped Bond with a Hi-Power (I'm absolutely almost sort-of 100% +/- 12% sure) and then in later Bond novels Gardner equipped Bond with the H&K P7.
Bond's PPK in "Doctor No", the novel.
- Thread starter default
- Start date
- Status
Cosmoline
Member
I suspect back when the book was written the Tok was extremely exotic this side of the iron curtain. A semi-legendary super high velocity communist sidearm. Back in those days nobody reading the book would have been likely to see a Tokarev, let alone own one, except after a rare battlefield encounter.
Cannonball888
Member
Hey, you're talking about my man all wrong. It's the wrong tone. This man wrote Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang. Yep. Don't believe me? Look it up.
There is a common element between Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang and James Bond novels but it isn't guns--rather it is cars with crazy gadgets. Also, did you ever notice the actor who played the king in Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang is the same actor who played Goldfinger? Hmmmmm.
Well-Armed Lamb
Member
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2006
- Messages
- 69
John Gardner also had Bond using Paris Theodore's ASP, built from a heavily modified Smith & Wesson model 39 (see http://www.hmss.com/qbranch/qb0101.htm for an interesting review of the pistol as regards Bond). Mike Grell, who wrote and drew a James Bond comic book miniseries, did the same. (Grell knows his guns, and often picks fun ones for his characters to use; his most famous character, Jon Sable, packed a Chinese Broomhandle Mauser in .45 ACP.)
wolfe28
Member
With regards to Ian Flemming,
He was a member of the OSS durring WW2. The passage about a spy getting killed in Casino Royal is actually one of the assignments that Ian Flemming was sent on and completed in New York durring the war. The Japanese had set up a dummy business in New York City durring the war, and it just happened to be above the office that the British Government had set up to run the Government should England fall to the Axis. Flemming and a collegue went across the street to get a clean shot at the Japanese office, the collegue shot out the window, and Flemming took out the spy. This can be coroborated in the both the biography of Ian Flemming, as well as a the book "A man called Intrepid", concering the direct communications between FDR and Churchill durring the war.
So, Ian Flemming was quite familliar with firearms, and quite proficient with there use. That being said, he was first and formost a writer, so his list of other weapons could quite well have been just to add color to the story.
D
He was a member of the OSS durring WW2. The passage about a spy getting killed in Casino Royal is actually one of the assignments that Ian Flemming was sent on and completed in New York durring the war. The Japanese had set up a dummy business in New York City durring the war, and it just happened to be above the office that the British Government had set up to run the Government should England fall to the Axis. Flemming and a collegue went across the street to get a clean shot at the Japanese office, the collegue shot out the window, and Flemming took out the spy. This can be coroborated in the both the biography of Ian Flemming, as well as a the book "A man called Intrepid", concering the direct communications between FDR and Churchill durring the war.
So, Ian Flemming was quite familliar with firearms, and quite proficient with there use. That being said, he was first and formost a writer, so his list of other weapons could quite well have been just to add color to the story.
D
Hypnogator
Member
Ding, ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!
How many others here knew that the Berns-Martin Triple-Draw holster was a revolver holster! Used spring pressure against the cylinder to secure the handgun. "Triple-Draw" refers to it's being configured with extra slots to be worn strong-side belt, cross-draw, or attached to a shoulder-harness.
Martini13
Member
I don't think Flemming was ever employed by the OSS. He may have acted in concert with them, but he was in British secret service.
Common Sense...The Rarest Of All Senses
Common Sense...The Rarest Of All Senses
Calibre44
Member
Bit of Bond Trivia
Did you know that the beach sequence in Dr No where Dr No’s men spray the island with machine gun fire from a boat had to be re-shot when a detachment form the US Navy who were on leave, entered the bay to find out what all the shooting was about!
Did you know that the beach sequence in Dr No where Dr No’s men spray the island with machine gun fire from a boat had to be re-shot when a detachment form the US Navy who were on leave, entered the bay to find out what all the shooting was about!
- Status