James Bond is a spy.
Espionage . Espionage can be committed by an individual or a spy ring ( a cooperating group of spies ) , in the service of a government or a company , or operating independently . The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming , who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections . The Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , commonly known as MI6 ( Military Intelligence , Section 6 ) , is the foreign intelligence agency of the British government .