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Pearson 007

This timeline is a comprehensive list of important fictional historical events set out in John Pearson's 1973 continuation novel, James Bond: The Authorised Biography. Unlike other literary timelines in the franchise, Pearson's timeline is modelled around Ian Fleming's conceit that James Bond was a real person whose exploits were fictionalised in his novels. Consequently, Pearson exercises some artistic licence to chronologically relocate and alter events described in Fleming's corpus.

Spoiler warning: This article contains spoilers! Plot and/or ending details follow.


1910s

1918

  • November 11: End of World War I.
  • Late 1918:[1] Andrew Bond spends his first peacetime leave climbing in the Swiss Alps. There he meets Monique Delacroix and the pair elope shortly afterwards.

1919

  • Summer:[1] Henry Bond is born to Andrew and Monique Bond.

1920s

1920

  • November 11: James Bond is born in Wattenscheid in the Ruhr area of Germany to Andrew and Monique Bond.[2]

1921

  • November 11: James Bond's 1st birthday.[2]

1922

  • November 11: James Bond's 2nd birthday.[2]

1923

  • November 11: James Bond's 3rd birthday.[2]

1924

  • November 11: James Bond's 4th birthday.[2]

1925

  • November 11: James Bond's 5th birthday.[2]

1926

  • November 11: James Bond's 6th birthday.[2]

1927

  • November 11: James Bond's 7th birthday.[2]

1928

  • November 11: James Bond's 8th birthday.[2]

1929

  • Maddox, as a one-time international bridge player, represents Britain in the Biarritz Tournament of 1929.
  • November 11: James Bond's 9th birthday.[2]

1930s

1930

  • November 11: James Bond's 10th birthday.[2]

1931

  • The Metro-Vickers combine wins an unprecedented contract from the Soviet Government to construct a chain of power stations around Moscow. Andrew Bond is despatched with the advance party of British engineers. Three months later he sends for his family to join him.
  • November 11: James Bond's 11th birthday.[2]

1932

  • Early months: Bond and his family are caught up in the Metro-Vickers show trial.[3] After its conclusion the family return to Britain and settle in Wimbledon.
  • April: James and his brother Henry are entered for the summer term at Kings College School.
  • Late July: Monique Bond suffers a nervous breakdown towards the end of the month.
  • August: James and Henry are sent to holiday in Glencoe, whilst Andrew Bond returns to Switzerland with his ailing wife. After a bitter argument between her husband and family, she ascends the Aiguilles Rouges pursued by Andrew. They both plummet to their deaths.
  • Autumn: Henry is enrolled at Eton College.
  • November 11: James Bond's 12th birthday.[2]

1933

  • November 11: James Bond's 13th birthday.[2]

1934

  • November 11: James Bond's 14th birthday.[2]

1935

  • November 11: James Bond's 15th birthday.[2]

1936

  • Spring: Bond attends his father's school, Fettes College, after being expelled from Eton for stealing-away to London to romance his friend "Burglar" Brinton's illegitimate half-sister.[5][6]
  • November 11: James Bond's 16th birthday.[2] At some point after turning 16, Bond leaves Fettes and enrols at Geneva University.
  • Winter: Bond attends lectures in psychology and law and reads quite widely. He spends the winter skiing and, as a dare, pits himself against the dangerous Aiguille du Midi.[7]

1937

  • Early 1937:[8] Intelligence leaks threaten a policy of military cooperation between France and Britain.
  • April:[9] End of term. Bond visits Paris with his friend "Burglar" Brinton; during which he loses his virginity at the Elysée brothel on the Place Vendôme and begins an intense relationship with its manager, Marthe de Brandt.
  • Spring: de Brandt purchases the famous Bentley 4½ Litre with the Villiers supercharger for Bond.
  • Early summer:[10] Bond meets British spymaster Maddox for the first time.
  • ??? (possible conflict)[8][11] On the urging of Maddox, Bond assassinates his lover; suspected spy and brothel owner, Marthe de Brandt. Bond survives the fatal car crash and spends several weeks in a nursing home recuperating. He is subsequently enticed into the world of espionage by Maddox and returns to London.
  • Summer: Bond sits under the tutelage of professional card-sharp, Steffi Esposito.
  • August:[12] Travelling with Esposito to France, Bond practises the techniques of the card-sharp at the Casino Royale in Royale-les-Eaux.
  • September:[13] Operating under the the NOC "Pieter Zwart", and working with René Mathis for the first time, Bond exposes the illicit activities of a Romanian card-sharping syndicate in Monte Carlo. Afterwards, Bond is officially enrolled by the Secret Service. He is attached to Station P, controlled from Paris, and used as an operator in the field.
  • November 11: James Bond's 17th birthday.[2]

1938

  • Early 1938: Maddox attempts to restore the prestige and confidence of his spy network.[14] For cover, Maddox insists that Bond makes a show of picking up his studies at the University of Geneva.[15]
  • May:[16] On his his fourth and final trip to the Hotel Adlon, Berlin, James Bond makes his first kill in the line of duty - a National Socialist assassin posing as his female contact in their suite.
  • Summer:[17] Bond spends a few days with his Aunt Charmian in Kent, before being dispatched to Russia on a diplomatic passport to extract a bio-chemist named Fedyeov. Fearing for his life, the man did not leave and was found dead shortly afterwards. Bond returns to Paris and his health begins to sharply decline.
  • Late Autumn:[18] On Maddox's recommendation, Bond takes a vacation at the ski-resort of Kitzbühel, Austria. There he meets Ian Fleming for the first time, a local girl named Maria Künzler and ski-instructor, Hannes Oberhauser. Weeks later, with Maddox's consent, he leaves Geneva, and takes a flat in Paris.
  • November 11: James Bond's 18th birthday.[2]

1939

  • August:[20] Bond takes his favourite married woman off on their final holiday at the Eden Roc at Antibes.
  • September 1: World War II begins in Europe, when Germany invades Poland. Bond returns to Paris where he finds a movement order from Headquarters to return to Regent's Park, London.[21] With Fleming's backing, Bond is commissioned as lieutenant in the Royal Navy with immediate secondment to the D.N.I.
  • November 11: James Bond's 19th birthday.[2]

1940s

1940

  • February:[22] Bond is sent by Fleming on a solitary assignment to monitor German naval traffic from the barren Frisian island of Wangerooge. His transmissions are detected by the Germans and he is forced to abandon his mission; hijacking the seaplane sent to search for him. He is accidentally shot down by the RAF and is rescued at sea.
  • Early 1940:[23] Disgraced by the Wangerooge Affair, Bond is given a desk job. He subsequently applies for transfer to active service in the Royal Navy. He is trained at Devonport and seconded to destroyers.
  • May:[24] Bond joins his first ship, H.M.S. Sabre, as a lieutenant. The ship is present at the evacuation of Dunkirk and, after repairs, she is sent on convoy duty in the North Atlantic.
  • June 22: France surrenders to National Socialist Germany.
  • Maddox makes his way to London, picks up a colonel's job with Military Intelligence and spends most of the war in the Middle East.
  • November 11: James Bond's 20th birthday.[2]

1941

  • Easter:[25] Bond meets and falls in love with Muriel; the sister of H.M.S. Sabre's second-in-command.
  • Late July:[26] H.M.S. Sabre steams home from the West Indies for a refit at Birkenhead. Roughly three weeks later he proposes to Muriel. While staying together at the Dorchester Hotel in London, a chance encounter with Fleming leads to his return to the D.N.I.
  • October:[27] Fleming sends Bond to New York to assassinate a Japanese cypher expert named Shingushi.
  • November 11: James Bond's 21st birthday.[2]

1942

  • February:[28] Bond destroys a large refinery at Brest in Brittany, in northwestern France.
  • April:[28] Bond engineers the release of three Allied agents from a local gaol in Vichy, central France.
  • Late April or early May:[28] At Alexandria, Egypt, Bond successfully takes charge of countermeasures against the Italian midget submarines which plagued Allied shipping.
  • November 11: James Bond's 22nd birthday.[2]
  • End of 1942:[28] Bond is promoted to Lieutenant-Commander and brought back to London.

1943

  • Early 1943:[29] Fleming sends Bond to Stockholm, Sweden to assassinate a double-agent called Svenson. Bond gives him an opportunity to kill himself, but is forced to shoot him dead.
  • November 11: James Bond's 23rd birthday.[2]
  • End of 1943:[30] In Switzerland Bond organizes the escape of two important Jewish scientists from Germany across Lake Constance.

1944

  • June 6: D-Day landings in Normandy, France. Bond is attached to the naval task force liaising with the French resistance in the Channel ports before D-Day.[31]
  • August 25: The Allies liberate Paris. Following the Liberation, former British spymaster Maddox returns to France and begins working for a syndicate of influential French bankers as ‘security director’; protecting the group's interests throughout the world.[32]
  • November 11: James Bond's 24th birthday.[2]

1945

  • May: Ian Fleming leaves military service and becomes the foreign manager of the Sunday Times.
  • November 11: James Bond's 25th birthday.[2]

1946

  • Sir Miles Messervy is appointed head of the Secret Service.[33]
  • February: Bond joins the Secret Service on probation and is dispatched to America to liaise with their intelligence services.[33]
  • Early summer:[34] After a series of controversies, culminating in the accidental death of a Congressman's wife, Bond returns to Britain and is ejected unceremoniously from the Secret Service. Several weeks later, Bond bumps into Maddox outside the Ritz Hotel and if offered a job as a mercenary. He accepts and works for him and the French banking syndicate for the next four years.
  • November 11: James Bond's 26th birthday.[2]

1947

  • November 11: James Bond's 27th birthday.[2]

1948

  • November 11: James Bond's 28th birthday.[2]

1949

  • July:[35] Following civil unrest in Algeria, there are raids on banks owned by the Syndicate. Wary of Bond's friendship with his wife, Maddox takes advantage of the situation to rid himself of him - plotting to frame him for the murder of a moderate Algerian nationalist. The plot is foiled by the death of Bond's assailant.
  • Rather than seeking revenge against Maddox, Bond covers up the incident and leaves his employ. He travels to Nairobi, Kenya and works for an American who made wild-life films for television. He later moves to Mombasa.
  • Autumn:[36] Short of funds, Bond departs for the Seychelles where he bums a living. While there he works for an American millionaire who was searching for rare fish. After his sudden demise Bond lives with the man's wealthy widow.
  • ???[37] The 00 section is formed in reaction to the existence of SMERSH.
  • November 11: James Bond's 29th birthday.[2]

1950s

1950

  • Early 1950:[36] Bond crosses paths with Fleming, who is travelling for the Sunday Times and writing about buried treasure.[38] He encourages him to return to Britain and the Secret Service. With Fleming's help, Bond progresses through the application process for the Secret Service. Bond spends several months vigorously training, purchases a new flat and hires a housekeeper.
  • July:[39] Bond is officially seconded to the 00 section and allocated the number 007. His first assignment is in Jamaica where, posing as local merchant Da Silva, he dismantles the Communist-aligned Cult of the Goddess Kull.
  • August 18:[40][41] Bond, as Da Silva, meets with the Kull Cult at their base of operations in the middle of the Kingston red-light district. He kills their leadership and rescues a blind and deaf girl whom the locals believed to be Kull.
  • November 11: James Bond's 30th birthday.[2]

1951

  • January:[42] In a flurry of SMERSH-related activity, 008 is found dead in a parked car fifty yards inside the Western zone of Berlin. 3 weeks later 0011, passing through China on the so-called ‘Blue Route’, fails to make contact in Hong Kong. Later still, a maimed 003 is dragged from a blazing car outside Belgrade.
  • Early Spring:[43] Bond learns that Maddox had died, and that Regine had bought a house a few miles inland from Montpelier.
  • Spring:[44] Bond returns from Jamaica[45] and within a few days of his return is dispatched to Greece to sink the ship of a Syrian gunrunner who had been carrying arms and ammunition for the EOKA terrorists in Cyprus.
  • 1st week of July:[46] Bond takes his ailing Aunt Charmian on holiday to the South of France.
  • 3rd week of July:[47] Bond is recalled to London where he is briefed and dispatched to bankrupt Le Chiffre at the Casino Royale in Royale-les-Eaux, France. He succeeds, but is marked (ш, the Russian "S" for Spion, carved on the back of his hand) by the SMERSH assassin sent to murder Le Chiffre for his failures. His love interest and double-agent, Vesper Lynd, kills herself.
  • End of August:[48] Bond takes three weeks leave to recover. He spends it in Provence with Maddox's widow and children.
  • November:[49] Bond is dispatched to investigate the activities of Mr. Big and dismantles his gold-smuggling racket from the Caribbean.
  • November 11: James Bond's 31st birthday.[2]

1952

  • April:[50] The killer who marked Bond at Royale-les-Eaux is identified by the Secret Service as one of SMERSH's top professionals, Oborin. M warns 007 that he may become a special target for the organisation.
  • Late Autumn:[51] In Finland SMERSH set a trap to capture 007 and extract him to the USSR. Bond intentionally takes the bait, is captured by Oborin and taken to a cell in a sunken German warship. In his hubris, the vengeful assassin deliberately allows Bond to escape so he can kill him - but ends up shot instead.
  • November 11: James Bond's 32nd birthday.[2]
  • End of November:[52] In Cairo, Bond protects a British businessman who had been threatened by a group of extremist Arabs; saving an important trade agreement.
  • December:[53] In retaliation for Oborin's death, several high-profile attempts are made on Bond's life by SMERSH. As M prepares to suspend him from the 00 section, and assign him a foreign posting until it blows over, Ian Fleming proposes a creative alternative: to persuade SMERSH that James Bond does not exist and is, in fact, a fictional character. They agree and Fleming begins to write Casino Royale.

1953

  • End of March:[54][55] Fleming returns to Britain with his manuscript; Bond takes a strong disliking to Fleming's characterization of himself.
  • April 13:[56] Ian Fleming publishes his first novel, Casino Royale. For several months after its publication, Bond is in Tokyo, loosely attached to Station T and studying the Eastern network.[57] The act of subterfuge is a tremendous success and SMERSH call off their operations against Bond.
  • November 11: James Bond's 33rd birthday.[2]

1954

  • Early 1954:[58][59] Fleming writes a second book based on 007's battle in the States with Mr Big.
  • Bond is sent to extract 002 after he escapes from a gaol in Canton, kills several Chinese guards and somehow crosses the border between China and Portuguese Macao. The perfectly-executed mission is considered one of the text-book cases in the Secret Service training schools.
  • Bond works alongside René Mathis and, posing as an envoy from an Arab power, ‘purchases’ stolen British uranium for a million pounds in gold, provided on British Government orders by the Bank of England.
  • November 11: James Bond's 34th birthday.[2]

1955

  • Spring 1955:[62] Bond travels to America and dismantles a diamond-smuggling pipeline operated by the Spangled Mob. In the process he begins a romantic relationship with former-smuggler, Tiffany Case.
  • April 5:[56] Ian Fleming publishes his third novel, Moonraker. The book is entirely fictitious, devised by Bond and Fleming to reinforce the deception.
  • Second week of June:[63] Bond is sent to keep an eye on a British homosexual cabinet minister holidaying at Eze-sur-Mer, preventing the possibility of a foreign power from involving him in a scandal.
  • June:[64] Tiffany begins a relationship with a young American major attached to the U.S. Embassy in London and eventually leaves Bond. Although initially jealous, the spy learns to accept her departure, though he is plagued by lethargy during the summer.
  • Autumn:[65] Bond travels to Istanbul, where he willingly falls into a SMERSH assassination plot involving a naïve Russian cypher clerk named Tatiana Romanova in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device. After disposing of the assassin sent to kill him, 007 confronts the arch-spy Rosa Klebb in Paris. He is poisoned and spends a few weeks recovering.
  • November 11: James Bond's 35th birthday.[2]

1956

  • April 19: In an diplomatic incident dubbed the Crabbe affair, a British frogman is caught in Portsmouth harbour with the latest Russian cruiser during Nikolai Bulganin's visit.
  • October:[66][67] 007 returns from his mission against Dr. Julius No in Jamaica; during which he effectively saves the American space programme and meets Honey Ryder. During his absence from London, the Hungarian Revolution has begun and 007 is drafted into the hectic work at Headquarters.
  • November:[68][69] As the revolution flounders, Bond is dispatched to Budapest to acquire an incriminating list of names from the deceased 009. He is betrayed by 009's duplicitous contact, Heinkel, and is incarcerated in a gorilla cage alongside 009's former-partner, Nashda. They escape and Bond eventually brings the girl (and her memorized list) back to Britain.
  • November 11: James Bond's 36th birthday.[2]

1957

  • April 8:[56] Ian Fleming publishes his fifth novel, From Russia, with Love. Despite Fleming's reluctance to continue writing, he is encouraged to do so by M; who perceives that they could provide wonderful publicity for his department.
  • 007 saves the world's economy by preventing SMERSH operative Arno Goldfinger[70] from robbing Fort Knox. Bond is subsequently promoted to Grade IV and uses his salary increase to replace his ageing Bentley 4½ Litre with a custom-built Bentley Mark II Continental. At some point Bond carries out the assignments later chronicled by Fleming in his book, For Your Eyes Only.
  • November 11: James Bond's 37th birthday.[2]

1958

  • March 31:[56] Ian Fleming publishes his sixth novel, Dr. No.
  • November 11: James Bond's 38th birthday.[2]

1959

  • ???[71] Bond is sent to Shrublands and is subsequently dispatched to the Bahamas to recover an atomic bomb stolen by the criminal organisation, SPECTRE.
  • November 11: James Bond's 39th birthday.[2]

1960s

1960

  • Autumn:[72] The Secret Service comes under increasing criticism from politicians. Principal Secretary of the 'Double-O' ('00') Section, Loelia Ponsonby, announces that she is leaving to get married to her broker boyfriend from the Baltic Exchange.
  • November 11: James Bond's 40th birthday.[2]
  • December:[73] Bond is dispatched to Toronto to protect a defector called Boris from a hired SPECTRE assassin. Afterwards 007 protects motel manager, Vivienne Michel, from two gangsters who were attempting to extort money from her. Bond dealt with them, and hands the case over to the local police.[74]

1961

  • April:[74][75] Ian Fleming suffers a major heart attack. Bond visits him in the London Clinic.
  • July:[76] Sir Miles Messervy vacations on a Greek naturist (i.e. nudist) island called Spirellos. He is subsequently blackmailed by an Italian photographer named Del Lungo. Bond and Tanner break into his Kensington flat and steal the incriminating film.
  • September:[77] Bond visits Vesper Lynd's grave at Royale-les-Eaux. There he meets the vulnerable Countess Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo and the pair fall in love. Shortly afterwards SPECTRE head, Ernst Stavro Blofeld is discovered to be alive. 007 infiltrates his operation and foils the villain's plot to wage biological warfare on the UK. Bond and Tracy marry in Munich and while driving to Kitzbühel for their honeymoon are attacked by Blofeld. Tracy is shot and killed.
  • November 11: James Bond's 41st birthday.[2]
  • Winter:[78] Bond returns to London.

1962

  • April 16:[56] On the urging of Urquhart, the ninth Bond novel, The Spy Who Loved Me, is published – written by Vivienne Michel and 'co-authored' with the ailing Ian Fleming. Bond finds it deeply distasteful.
  • Early 1962 (?):[79] The Secret Service, and Bond in particular, is involved in a scandal in involving a former 00 section operative and corrupt section head named Prenderghast. Operating as a double-agent, the man was the organizer of a homosexual diplomatic network in Rome. The whistleblower commits suicide after his warnings fall on deaf ears. Prenderghast is subsequently sentenced to 30 years for treason.
  • Early Spring (?):[80] Bond is dispatched to Japan to make a intelligence-sharing deal with their Secret Service. But in the process he discovers that Blofeld and his partner, Irma Bunt, have established a suicide establishment in an old castle near Kyoto. He kills his old adversary; but while escaping the exploding building he falls and loses his memory.
  • Bond is rescued by Ama diver, Kissy Suzuki, and bears her a child, James Suzuki. Still amnesiac, he leaves before the child is born and travels to Russia in search of his memory; only to be brainwashed by the Soviets and sent back to Britain in a failed attempt to assassinate M.
  • October 5: Dr. No, the first EON Productions James Bond film, premieres at the London Palladium.[81] Ian Fleming invites Bond to a special showing of the film.
  • November 11: James Bond's 42nd birthday.[2]

1963

  • October 10: The film version of From Russia with Love opens at the London Palladium.[81]
  • November 11: James Bond's 43rd birthday.[2]

1964

  • August 12:[82] At the age of 56, Ian Fleming dies following a major heart attack.
  • September 17: The third Eon Productions film Goldfinger is premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, with general release in the United Kingdom the following day.[83][81]
  • November 11: James Bond's 44th birthday.[2]

1965

  • November 11: James Bond's 45th birthday.[2]
  • December 9: The fourth Eon Productions film Thunderball premieres in Tokyo, Japan and opens on 21 December in New York[81] and 29 December in London.

1966

  • Author John Pearson publishes his biographical book, The Life of Ian Fleming.
  • November 11: James Bond's 46th birthday.[2]

1967

  • April 11: You Only Live Twice opens in London at the Odeon, Leicester Square. It opens at the New York Astor on June 13th.[81]
  • November 11: James Bond's 47th birthday.[2]

1968

  • March 28: Colonel Sun - the first continuation James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming - is published by Glidrose Productions and written by Kingsley Amis under the pen name of Robert Markham.
  • November 11: James Bond's 48th birthday.[2]

1969

  • November 11: James Bond's 49th birthday.[2]

1970s

1970

  • November 11: James Bond's 50th birthday.[2]

1971

  • November 11: James Bond's 51st birthday.[2]
  • December 14: The seventh film in the Eon Productions film franchise, Diamonds Are Forever, has its UK premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square.[86]

1972

  • November 11: James Bond's 52nd birthday.[2]

1973

  • January:[80] John Pearson flies to Bermuda to interview James Bond.
  • June 21: James Bond recieves the proofs of Pearson's biography from M.[87]
  • July 10: Bond gives his approval to Pearson's work. The book was presumably published shortly afterwards.[87]
  • November 11: James Bond's 53rd birthday.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 2: Boyhood of a Spy", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Climbing suited his strenuous nature, and late in 1918 the handsome young ex-brigadier spent his first peacetime leave climbing the mountains he had dreamed of – in the Swiss Alps. He was trying to forget the horror of the war, but he did more than that. He found a wife.” 
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 2.39 2.40 2.41 2.42 2.43 2.44 2.45 2.46 2.47 2.48 2.49 2.50 2.51 2.52 2.53 Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 2: Boyhood of a Spy", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. 
  3. ↑ Note: Pearson places the Metro-Vickers Affair in 1932, the real-life trial actually occurred in early 1933.
  4. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 3: Les Sensations Fortes", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “There actually was a James Bond who was recorded having entered Slater's House in the autumn term of 1933...” 
  5. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 1: This is Commander Bond", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “According to the Eton list he stayed just over two years; his name had disappeared from the spring list of 1936.” 
  6. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 1: This is Commander Bond", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Accordingly I wrote to the school secretary asking if he could tell me anything about a boy called Bond who may have entered the school some time in 1936.” 
  7. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 3: Les Sensations Fortes", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “That first winter in Geneva he fell in love with winter sports.” 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 3: Les Sensations Fortes", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “At the beginning of 1937 the British Secret Service faced a sudden crisis ... This was all very secret, but in January reports reached London that this information was known in Berlin.” 
  9. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 3: Les Sensations Fortes", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “The remainder of that Easter holiday is something Bond won't talk about.” 
  10. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 3: Les Sensations Fortes", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “James Bond met him early that summer. His name was Maddox.” 
  11. ↑ Note: Pearson appears to imply that Maddox made a hasty decision to assassinate Marthe de Brandt around early 1937; however, this cannot be reconciled with the surrounding narrative.
  12. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 4: Luminous Reader", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Then at the end of August, Esposito relaxed. He announced that they would soon be leaving London.” 
  13. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 4: Luminous Reader", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Early next morning, Bond and Esposito left for Paris. Here they made contact with Maddox ... ‘Then you must make up one. I want those four Roumanians back in Bucharest within a fortnight.’ ... He [Bond] was nearly seventeen, but looked a handsome twenty-five ... During September, Saturdays at the casino were a gala night.” 
  14. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 4: Luminous Reader", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Maddox was an aggressive man. In time of crisis his instinct was to attack. The early part of 1938 saw him mounting several swift operations aimed at restoring the prestige and confidence of his network. As a small part of this, James Bond was to perform his first assignment or as he calls it now, ‘my apprentice piece’.” 
  15. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 5: Eve of War Games", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “For cover, Maddox insisted that he made a show of picking up his studies at the University of Geneva. This he did at the beginning of 1938.” 
  16. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 5: Eve of War Games", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “It was in May of 1938 that Bond made his fourth and final trip to the Adlon.” 
  17. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 5: Eve of War Games", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Throughout the long splendid European summer of 1938, Bond was busy. Apart from a snatched few days in Kent visiting Aunt Charmian, he had no real holiday.” 
  18. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 5: Eve of War Games", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “In 1938, Kitzbühel was still a sleepy little Tyrolean market town beneath the jagged mass of the great Kitzbüheler Horn. For years now it had been a favourite haunt of Fleming's who had been coming here since the 1920s. He was there late that autumn when Bond arrived at the Hirzingerhof Hotel.” 
  19. ↑ Lycett, Andrew [1995] (2nd November 2012). Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond (in En-UK). London: Diane Publishing Company, p.99. ISBN 978-1-85799-783-5. 
  20. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 5: Eve of War Games", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “It continued through 1939 like this – then in August, as the German armies massed on the Polish frontiers, he took his favourite married woman off on what he knew would be their final holiday.” 
  21. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 5: Eve of War Games", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “When the month ended, she had to join her husband and her children. Bond returned to Paris where he found a movement order from Headquarters to return to London. The big building overlooking Regent's Park was claiming him.” 
  22. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 6: Bond's War", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “It was too late to argue, and at the beginning of February, Bond joined H.M. submarine Thruster at Harwich at the start of a three-week Baltic patrol.” 
  23. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 6: Bond's War", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “But during these early months of 1940, the secret-service world was changing rapidly. Whole new branches were sprouting – MI5 and MI6 were taking on fresh personnel. Fleming was off to Canada. It was a bad time for Lieutenant Bond.” 
  24. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 6: Bond's War", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Just before Dunkirk he joined his first ship, H.M.S. Sabre, as a lieutenant. He was at Dunkirk. Sabre was bombed but still managed to bring back three loads of British troops from the beaches. After repairs, she went on convoy duty in the North Atlantic.” 
  25. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 6: Bond's War", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Bond met her briefly during leave that Easter. They saw a show together, had supper in a Corner House. Bond kissed her – that was all – but promised he would write. He did.” 
  26. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 6: Bond's War", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Late that July, H.M.S. Sabre steamed home from the West Indies for a refit at Birkenhead. Bond had leave and traveled down to London with the 2i/c. Some three weeks later he was happily engaged.” 
  27. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 6: Bond's War", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Bond found its October melancholy appealing.” 
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 6: Bond's War", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “...1942 was a busy year for Bond. He was behind the destruction of the big refinery at Brest in February. Two months later he was in France again, this time in Vichy where he posed as a commercial traveller and engineered the release of three Allied agents held in the local gaol. A few weeks later he was flown to Alexandria to take charge of countermeasures against the Italian one-man submarines ... Bond was proud of his success – at the end of 1942 he was promoted Lieutenant-Commander and brought back to London.” 
  29. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 6: Bond's War", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Early in 1943 it looked like happening. By a coincidence, Fleming was once again involved.” 
  30. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 6: Bond's War", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Towards the end of 1943 he was back in Switzerland, organizing the escape of two important Jewish scientists from Germany across Lake Constance.” 
  31. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 6: Bond's War", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Later he was attached to the naval task force liaising with the French resistance in the Channel ports before D-Day.” 
  32. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 7: Scandal", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Since the Liberation he had been working for a syndicate of big French bankers as ‘security director’, A title which appeared to cover top-level planning to protect the group's massive interests throughout the world.” 
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 7: Scandal", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “As it turned out Bond's official transfer to the Secret Service wasn't simple ... Bond's application was submitted early in February 1946. A few days later he was summoned to an office on the sixth floor of the Regent's Park headquarters to meet the newly appointed head of the Secret Service. This was Sir Miles Messervy ... what I propose is that you join us on probation. During this period I thought that you might like to go to America for us...” 
  34. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 7: Scandal", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “It was an early summer morning; Bond walked down Baker Street after the axe had fallen, feeling a little dazed.” 
  35. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 7: Scandal", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “He was approaching thirty and knew quite well that he had settled nothing. ... Everything went wrong that summer ... Then, in July, the manager of the main branch in Oran was gunned down and several million francs were stolen.” 
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 7: Scandal", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “[After the events of July] For several months he stayed in Kenya ... Bond moved again – first to Mombasa, and then, when the money started to run out, on to the Seychelles ... He stayed here several months, bumming a living as he could.” 
  37. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 8: 007 is Born", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “A few months ago [prior to early 1951] I formed a section of our own to deal with it [SMERSH]. It's called the double-O section.” 
  38. ↑ Note: Fleming's real-life articles were published as "Treasure Hunt in Eden" in the Sunday Times from 17th-31st August 1958.
  39. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 8: 007 is Born", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “It was July. The plane trees in the square were thick with leaves, and Bond was feeling restless.” 
  40. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 8: 007 is Born", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Da Silva. Her Reverend Majesty and thrice-feared Goddess Kull desires you and calls you to her sacred bed on Friday the 18th at midnight. You will arrive alone at 307 Tarleton Street. Tell nobody and fail not. Kull is insatiable for those that she desires.” 
  41. ↑ Note: Pearson sets Bond's showdown with the Kull Cult at midnight on Friday 18th. 18th August 1950 correlates with Bond being summonded for his briefing in July.
  42. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 9: Casino", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “In January 1951 008 was found dead in a parked car fifty yards inside the Western zone of Berlin; three weeks later 0011, passing through China on the so-called ‘Blue Route’, failed to make contact in Hong Kong; and in the last few days 003, one of the most experienced agents in the section, had been dragged from a blazing car outside Belgrade. He would live – for a while at least – but his days of usefulness to the Secret Service (or to anybody else) were over.” 
  43. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 9: Casino", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Early that spring he had heard that Maddox had died, and that Regine had bought a house a few miles inland from Montpelier.” 
  44. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 9: Casino", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “... and cheerfully began explaining the situation M. had had to face in 1951 ... It was the one form of escapism that could make life tolerable, and in the spring of 1951, the gods, and M., were smiling on James Bond. He was kept busy. Life was very good ... Within a few days of his return from Jamaica, he was off again ... ‘Greece,’ he replied. ‘M. thinks I need a holiday.’” 
  45. ↑ Note: It is unclear how Bond's Kull Cult briefing and, presumably, departure (July) and his return from Jamaica (Spring) relate to one another.
  46. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 9: Casino", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Later that afternoon Miss Moneypenny brought Bond an official leave slip for three weeks at the beginning of July. M.'s small meticulous signature was at the bottom.” 
  47. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 9: Casino", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “They still had another week to go when there was a call from London.” 
  48. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 9: Casino", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “M.'s secretary, the formidable Miss Moneypenny, brought him a brief note recommending him for three weeks’ further leave at the end of August.” 
  49. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 9: Casino", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Then in November came the clash with Mr Big...” 
  50. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 10: Vendetta", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “But then, in April, M. again brought up the subject of Chiffre's killer, the man described by Fleming as ‘the murderer with the crag-like face.’” 
  51. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 10: Vendetta", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “It was late that autumn before M. summoned Bond again.” 
  52. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 10: Vendetta", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “There was a three-day visit to Cairo at the end of November.” 
  53. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 11: Superbond", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “This was around Christmas time at the end of 1952. Ian had just gone off with his notes and his typewriter to his house in Jamaica – Goldeneye.” 
  54. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 11: Superbond", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “I remember how he came back at the end of March, with his manuscript...” 
  55. ↑ Note: Pearson's date appears to correlate with the real-world completion date listed by academic Jeremy Black (see his The Politics of James Bond: from Fleming's Novel to the Big Screen) and others.
  56. ↑ 56.00 56.01 56.02 56.03 56.04 56.05 56.06 56.07 56.08 56.09 56.10 56.11 Note: Assuming that Pearson is referencing the real-world date of publishing (see IFP's timeline).
  57. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 11: Superbond", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “For several months after the publication of Casino Royale, Bond was in Tokyo, loosely attached to Station T and studying the Eastern network” 
  58. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 11: Superbond", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Fleming was given permission to describe Bond's last big assignment before all the trouble – the battle in the States with Mr Big. Fleming wrote this early in 1954...” 
  59. ↑ Note: Pearson departs from the real-world dating of composition (see IFP's timeline).
  60. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 11: Superbond", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “That autumn Bond returned to London just in time for the publication of Fleming's second book.” 
  61. ↑ Note: Exercising artistic licence, Pearson chooses a later ahistorical date of publishing; rather than the real-world April 5.(see timeline).
  62. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 12: Bond Cocu", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “I'd been in America in 1955 working on the diamond case that Fleming wrote about in Diamonds are Forever.” 
  63. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 12: Bond Cocu", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “It was almost a relief to Bond when, in the second week in June, he was sent off abroad on a brief assignment ... Bond had five days of what the section used to call ‘Nanny duty’...” 
  64. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 12: Bond Cocu", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Thanks to Bond she had been admitted to England without a passport. Immigration had told her to obtain one later from her embassy. With Bond away it seemed an opportunity to do so; she took a taxi off to Grosvenor Square.” 
  65. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 13: The Soft Life", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “But the events of these few autumn days in 1955 played their part not only in Bond's subsequent career but also in his legend. Fleming has described the frantic way that Smersh still tried to murder him.” 
  66. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 13: The Soft Life", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “On his return [From Jamaica], however, Bond didn't get the welcome he deserved, for suddenly the attention of that powerhouse of the secret war beside the Park was focused on one spot – Eastern Europe. During Bond's absence, Hungary had risen in revolt against its Russian masters.” 
  67. ↑ Hungarian Revolution (Encyclopaedia). Britannica. Retrieved on 2021-02-16.
  68. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 13: The Soft Life", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “When the Red tanks moved in and it was clear that the revolt would soon be over the real pressure started ... Then, without the slightest warning, Bond was summoned for an interview with M.” 
  69. ↑ Hungarian Revolution (Encyclopaedia). Britannica. Retrieved on 2021-02-16. “On November 4 the Soviet Union invaded Hungary to stop the revolution...”
  70. ↑ Note: Pearson changes the character's first name from "Auric" to "Arno".
  71. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 14: The Truth about M.", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “He was also the only member of the section who could last the pace – although by 1959 even he was showing signs of strain. Fleming has explained what happened at the start of Thunderball.” 
  72. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 14: The Truth about M.", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “Late in the autumn of 1960, things started going strangely wrong for Bond. His carefree years were over.” 
  73. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 14: The Truth about M.", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “That Christmas he was champing for a long, involved assignment, preferably somewhere warm, which would keep him out of range of M. and Regent's Park as long as possible. Instead he found himself dispatched to Canada.” 
  74. ↑ 74.0 74.1 Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 14: The Truth about M.", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “That April Fleming had had a heart attack, and even as M. spoke, he was in the London Clinic. When James Bond heard this he went to visit him ... The same April he flew specially to Canada and it was while he was there that he found out about the girl called Vivienne Michel.” 
  75. ↑ Note: Pearson is referencing the real-world incident (see IFP's timeline).
  76. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 14: The Truth about M.", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “In July M. went on holiday. He was no better when he got back – in fact he was quite intolerable, snappy, bad-tempered, getting on everybody's nerves.” 
  77. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 14: The Truth about M.", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “By September 1961, when Fleming showed him at the start of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bond was about to kick. As Fleming revealed (Bond was to wish he hadn't) he was actually composing his letter of resignation from the Secret Service when the book began.” 
  78. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 15: The Bastard's Gone", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “He described the aftermath of Tracy's death. When he got back to London, May was waiting for him in the flat. Winter had started.” 
  79. ↑ Pearson, John [1973] (2nd November 2012). "Chapter 15: The Bastard's Gone", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9780099502920. “‘...With Tracy's death all my luck turned. None of my 1962 assignments seemed to go right.’ The worst was the Prenderghast Affair...” 
  80. ↑ 80.0 80.1 Note: Bond notes during his interview with Pearson that his son is now ten years old. Given that the events of You Only Live Twice could not have occurred earlier than 1962, and taking into account the nine months of pregnancy, the interview was almost certainly conducted in 1973. A likely date of the events in Japan can be no later than May 1962.
  81. ↑ 81.0 81.1 81.2 81.3 81.4 Multiple authors. (1996). James Bond 007: The Ultimate Dossier (CD-ROM). Eidos Interactive. ISBN 0-7928-3274-4.
  82. ↑ Note: Assuming that Pearson is referencing the real-world dates (see IFP's timeline).
  83. ↑ Chambers, Peter. "Shattering James Bond!", 18 September 1964. 
  84. ↑ On Her Majesty's Secret Service. MGM Official site. Retrieved on 2 August 2011.
  85. ↑ (1997) Kiss Kiss Bang! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bond Film Companion. Batsford Books, p.92. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2. 
  86. ↑ Diamonds Are Forever. TheNumbers. Retrieved on 24 December 2007.
  87. ↑ 87.0 87.1 Pearson, John (1973). "Dust-cover rear", James Bond: The Authorised Biography (in En-UK). Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 9780283979460. “Memorandum; To: 007; From: M; Date: 21st June 1973; 'Please check through these proofs of your biography. I am satisfied the record is now true and accurate, but please give me your approval as soon as possible.' 'Very good - I enjoyed it a lot. There are no errors and Tanner says it's as good as one of Ian's novels' James 10 July 1973” 
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