He was the first and one of the most infamous villains of the Bond series. A twisted character who fled with $10 million from the treasury of "The Tongs" crime group and used the money to created his magnificent setup at Crab Key. The complex is run by atomic energy which Dr No is an expert (Having lost both his hands during research. Disguised as a mine Dr No uses the base to sabotage the space programme for SPECTRE. Bond later duels with the villain and Dr No ends up drowning in boiling radioactive water.
A Briton working as a geologist in Jamaica, Dent is really a henchman for Dr No. He makes friends with Strangways and regularly plays bridge with him at the Queen's Club. Bond becomes suspicious when the geologist lies about some rock samples Strangways bought back from Crab Key-they were radioactive. Dent tries to eliminate Bond by putting a tarantula in his bed, but Bond gets the better of that. Dent has another go at trying to kill Bond by ambushing him in the home of Miss Taro, the deceitful secretary of the British foreign secretary, Pleydell-Smith. Again Bond gets the upper hand in one of the best sequences of the whole series. Dent fires bullets in to a row of pillows then Bond gets him for good.
Working by day at Pleydell-Smith's secretary, Taro has an out of hours job as an aid to Professor Dent. She acquires information for Dent and Dr No very easily. She invites Bond to her house for a little get together when in fact it is for his murder by Dent. Bond knows the score from the start and rings for a taxi as gives the impression that they are off out for a meal. The taxi actually comes from the govenor's office and takes Taro away to be dealt with.
