Wade, Jack
(Joe Don Baker)
A widely travelled CIA agent and gardening fanatic, whom Bond first meets in St Petersburg. Wade complains about 'stiff-assed Brits' and their penchant for passwords, but Bond's Walther encourages him to hold up the tradition. Wade has an unsubtle approach to motor maintenance (it's certainly not zen), but nevertheless has a good knowledge of what's going on all around the world. Wade has been married at least three times, and has a tattoo celebrating Muffy, his third wife, on his buttocks - a distinguishing feature which Bond knows about. After he and Bond become friends, his usual opening refrain on meeting 007 is a cry of "Yo! Jimbo!" (GE, TND)

Walther PPK
James Bond's preferred choice of sidearm, a German-made 7.65mm holding six shots. Although reluctant to accept it at first, preferring his Beretta, Bond soon comes to rely on the weapon. (DN)

Washington Room
Part of the Whyte House monitored by Willard Whyte's security cameras. (DAF)

Watch, Alarm
General Pushkin wears one of these to alert his KGB bodyguard that he was in danger from Bond, pushing a button to send the signal. (TLD)

Watch, Digital
1: Bond wears one of these (made by Pulsar) while his usual Rolex was being repaired by Q Branch. Whatever other functions it may have had, having to press a button just to see the time on its red LED readout isn't very efficient! (LALD)
2: A more useful Seiko LCD watch gives Bond his new instructions via a built-in Dymo tape printer, to his annoyance. (TSWLM)
3: Another Seiko, this one containing an explosive charge that Bond uses to escape from the blast pit of Moonraker 5 before he and Holly Goodhead are incinerated. (MR)
4: Yet another Seiko has a satellite radio built in, as well as an LED message display. Max the parrot ends up dropping it into the sea. (FYEO)

Watch, Laser
An Omega diver's watch worn by Bond, which contains a small but powerful laser capable of cutting through steel plate. It can also arm or disarm Bond's magnetic mines remotely - a feature of which, unfortunately, Trevelyan is well aware. (GE)

Water Balloons
A sideshow event for children at Circus Circus, where water pistols have to be fired into the mouths of clowns to inflate a balloon. Tiffany Case is ordered to play it; to her surprise she wins (the operator is a CIA agent), the prize being a large green cuddly dog stuffed full of diamonds. (DAF)

Water Walker
Bond's unusual means of reaching Blofeld's oil rig. Dropped from a plane, this large tetrahedronal pod was parachuted into the sea, then Bond literally walked across the water inside it! (DAF)

Wavekrest Captain
(Roger Cudnay)
The captain of Krest's ship, who expresses disbelief that a woman could be a harbour pilot when Pam Bouvier comes aboard. Considering she then crashes his ship into the dock, his opinion is unlikely to change. (LTK)

Wavekrest Marine Research
Another of Milton Krest's companies, which owns the Shark Hunter II and its parent ship, the Wavekrest. (LTK)

Waxwork
A life-sized, realistic replica of Bond that Scaramanga has in the heart of his funhouse, to remind him who his greatest challenge will be. After winning a deathmatch against Rodney, Scaramanga shoots off the waxwork's fingers. Bond later gets his revenge for this desecration by taking the place of his own double and shooting Scaramanga when he least expects it. (TMWTGG)

Wayne, Dr
The chief of staff at Shrublands health farm (TB)

Wedding
Bond took a shortcut through one of these, a feat made more unusual by the fact that he was in a speedboat at the time. One of his pursuers literally crashed the party (and the cake). (LALD)

WEDS
A Miami Beach radio station. (GF)

Welding Robot
A machine sent along the insides of newly-laid underground pipes to weld the seams between sections. Bond is almost fried by one, until he turns its welders on itself and causes it to short out. (DAF)

Wellington
A British military leader who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Whitaker apparently doesn't think much of him, referring to him as a 'vulture'. However, Wellington gets his own back when Bond plants his explosive keyring behind a bust of the Duke and detonates it, blowing the bust onto Whitaker and crushing him onto a miniature rcreation of Waterloo. (TLD)

Wetbike
A self-assembly aquatic motorbike sent to Bond aboard the USS Wayne in pieces by Q. Bond uses it to reach Atlantis before the Wayne torpedoes Stromberg's base. (TSWLM)

Whisper
(Earl Jolly Brown)
An obese henchman of Kananga, Whisper takes his name from his very quiet voice. He provides muscle (Whisper picks an unconscious Bond up with one arm) as well as being a killer. He shoots CIA driver Charlie with a lethal dart, and poses as a hotel waiter on San Monique to oversee another attempt on Bond's life.
Whisper's bulk and low voice proved his downfall - he is unable to warn Kananga when Bond escapes from his shark pool, and can't move out of the way fast enough to avoid being kicked by Bond into a watertight (and presumably airtight) container. (LALD)

Whistler, Mrs
(Margaret Lacey)
An elderly South African schoolteacher, who is also involved with diamond smuggling, taking stolen stones around the world in a hollowed-out Bible. She is killed in Amsterdam by Wint and Kidd, who drown her in a canal close to the Skinny Bridge. (DAF)

Whitaker, Brad
(Joe Don Baker)
A lobster-loving American arms dealer who passes himself off as a major, despite having been expelled from West Point for cheating. After working as a mercenary for various criminal organisations, he set himself up in the arms trade, specialising in high-tech weapons. He joins forces with Koskov in an attempt to make a $50 million deal to supply weapons to the Soviet Army in Afghanistan, but the deal is cancelled by Pushkin - the suspicion that Pushkin would do this is the reason Whitaker and Koskov try to dupe MI6 into assassinating the general. Whitaker has obviously had successful dealings with the Russians in the past - equipment on show at the Soviet airbase in Afghanistan includes an American Hercules transport plane and a British Land Rover!
Whitaker is obsessed with military stategy, his hobby being re-enactments of famous battles in miniature - he is arrogant enough to believe that he would have done better than any of history's great commanders. He has waxworks of leaders like Napoleon and Hitler in his museum, though in a fit of vanity he has given them all his own face. In the end he is killed by his own toys, when Bond uses his explosive keyring to blow a heavy bust of Wellington onto Whitaker, crushing him against a tableaux of Waterloo. (TLD)

White Pond Farm
A farmhouse close to the Blayden safe house, where an American-hating milkman meets his end at the cables of Necros' Walkman. (TLD)

Whyte House, The
A large Las Vegas casino and hotel, part of Willard Whyte's business empire. Whyte supposedly lives in the penthouse, although he has been usurped by Blofeld. (DAF)

Whyte, Willard
(Jimmy Dean)
A reclusive millionaire, with businesses involved in explosives, oil, electronics, housing and aviation, amongst others. His operations extend right across the North American continent, from Alaska to Florida, with stops along the way in Maine, Oregon and Texas. He also owns the Whyte House casino in Las Vegas, and is thought to occupy the penthouse, although he hasn't been seen in public for five years. In fact, Whyte has been kidnapped by Blofeld, who is using Whyte's reclusiveness to gain control of his companies. Once freed, he uses his resources and government connections to organise an attack on Blofeld's oil rig headquarters. (DAF)

Wichita Falls
The town from where Pam Bouvier claims to have come just to see Joe Butcher at his meditation institute. (LTK)

Wiegener Foundry
A gold smelting plant in Essen, Germany, which in 1940 cast the batch of 600 gold bars, sunk at the bottom of Lake Toplitz by the Nazis in 1944. (GF)

Wig
Black bowl-shaped hairpiece that, along with some fake eyebrows, rubber false eyelids and a shaved chest, implausibly allows Bond to pass himself off as Japanese. (YOLT)

Wilde, Oscar
English playwrite and bon vivante quoted by Drax. (MR)

Williamson
The head of Empire Chemicals, before 'Mr Fisher' (aka Bond) took over. Bond says he died after falling into a pulveriser, though since the company is almost certainly an MI6 front, he was probably simply reassigned. (YOLT)

Windward Road
A road leading out of Kingston on the way to Miss Taro's home. (DN)

Wine Drinking Guy
This Douglas Adams lookalike seems to have a knack for holidaying in locations that Bond visits. Invariably, he is chugging down wine when Bond goes past doing something outlandish, causing the boozer to do a double-take and look at his wine bottle in disbelief. (TSWLM, MR, FYEO)

Wine Drinking Tramp
A gnarly resident of San Francisco, who loses his grip on his bottle when he sees the high drama of Bond carrying Stacey Sutton down a ladder from the burning City Hall. The Wine Drinking Guy was presumably unavailable. (AVTAK)

Winnebago
A maker of RVs, one of which Q uses as a mobile base to control Snooper. (AVTAK)

Wint, Mr
(Bruce Glover)
Mr Kidd's partner in crime, and probably more. Wint wears a very strong aftershave, which allows Bond to identify him - Wint drops his bottle into the boot of the car in which they are transporting the unconscious Bond, soaking Bond's tuxedo in the pungent perfume. He later recognises the smell when Wint and Kidd, posing as waiters, try to leave a bomb in Bond's cruise liner cabin. After dealing with Kidd, Bond overcomes Wint's attempt to strangle him with a medallion and pulls the assassin's arms up between his legs (giving him an unexpected thrill) before tying the bomb to his coat tails and tossing him overboard. (DAF)

Wolf Whistle
The activating code for the plastic explosive in the fob of Bond's keyring. (TLD)

Woodhouse, Barbara
An elderly (now-deceased) English lady whose methods of dog training gained worldwide fame in the early 1980s. Bond applies the same methods to tiger training in India. "Si-t!" (OP)

World's Greatest Marches
The cassette tape of military music that actually contained the data controlling the orbit of Blofeld's laser satellite. Bond tries to smuggle a copy containing real band music onto Blofeld's oil rig to replace the computer tape. His plan is uncovered, but Tiffany Case slips him the tape as Blofeld generously gives Bond a tour of the rig. Bond manages to switch the tapes, but not realising what he's done, Tiffany switches them back again! (DAF)

Wounds
Something Bond usually manages to avoid apart from cosmetic grazes and cuts. He does, however, take a bullet in the leg in Nassau (TB), and gets banged up enough while battling Sanchez that he could be mistaken for Bruce Willis (LTK).

WW
Willard Whyte's private parking garage under the Whyte House, accessible only by a private elevator (which contains gas jets to knock out any unwelcome guests) and a long tunnel that leads to the desert, its entrance camouflaged by rocks and a fake cactus. (DAF)

W207 182
Registration of the Austrian Audi 200 in which Saunders planned to smuggle Koskov from Czechoslovakia. Bond takes the car instead, taking Koskov to an alternate escape route along the Trans-Siberian Pipeline. (TLD)

W6N
Codename for Strangways' station in Jamaica. (DN)