 It was not until the penultimate novel , You Only Live Twice , that Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background , using a fictional obituary , purportedly from The Times . The book was the first to be written after the release of Dr. No in cinemas and Sean Connery 's depiction of Bond affected Fleming 's interpretation of the character . The novel reveals Bond is the son of a Scottish father , Andrew Bond , of Glencoe , and a Swiss mother , Monique Delacroix , of the Canton de Vaud . The young James Bond spends much of his early life abroad , becoming multilingual in German and French because of his father 's work as a Vickers armaments company representative . Bond is orphaned at the age of 11 when his parents are killed in a mountain climbing accident in the Aiguilles Rouges near Chamonix . 
