“Walther PPK. 7.65 mil with a delivery like a brick through a plate-glass window. Takes a Brausch silencer with little reduction in muzzle velocity. The American CIA swear by them.”

These lyrically inaccurate but undeniably mesmerizing words were uttered by MI6 Quartermaster “Q” as he issued Bond his new Walther PPK service pistol in Dr. No. In previous books, Bond had packed a tiny little Beretta 418 pocket pistol in .25 ACP. Fleming had 007 inexplicably “skeletonize” the 418 by removing the grips.

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