Ian Fleming rarely let Bond sit still. Across twelve novels and nine short stories, 007 moves between real cities and invented ones — from the baccarat tables of Royale-les-Eaux to the mountaintop clinic above Mürren — often drawing on places Fleming had visited, worked in, or written about himself. This index tracks every setting worth a note, at three scales: the countries Bond passes through, the cities and towns where the action actually happens, and the specific buildings, estates and institutions — real and fictional alike — that give each story its texture.
The World Without Want · A literary Bond index
Bond’s World
The countries, cities, and specific rooms and buildings Ian Fleming sent 007 through — from the baccarat table at Royale-les-Eaux to a mountaintop clinic above Mürren.
This edition indexes named settings across Fleming’s 12 novels and 9 individual short stories, at three scales: countries, cities & towns, and specific buildings & sites (clubs, estates, institutions, and other single locations worth a note in their own right). Fictional places invented by Fleming — Royale-les-Eaux, Crab Key, Piz Gloria — are indexed alongside real ones and marked accordingly in each entry. Research is compiled from Fleming’s texts and established Bond reference sources rather than a line-by-line concordance, and entries may be refined as the index is checked further.
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Recurring locations
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Indexed locations
12
Fleming novels
9
Individual short stories
— locations shown. Click any location to open the full note.
Novel Short story
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