I would disagree. Bond novels were huge in the early 60’s , which spawned the first one, DR. NO.
Bond was a product of the 50’s soviet scare and the cold war.I actually have the entire James Bond collection , 1st 2nd and 3rd prints and the entire series from the early 60’s in paperback.
You got me curious now so i went on Wikpedia:
Initially Fleming’s Bond novels were not bestsellers in America, but when President John F. Kennedy included From Russia With Love on a list of his favourite books, sales quickly jumped.[14] Fleming wrote 14 Bond books in all: Casino Royale (1953), Live and Let Die (1954), Moonraker (1955), Diamonds Are Forever (1956), From Russia with Love (1957), Dr. No (1958), Goldfinger (1959), For Your Eyes Only (1960), Thunderball (1961), The Spy Who Loved Me (1962), On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963), You Only Live Twice (1964), The Man with the Golden Gun (1965), and Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966).
In the late 1950s, the financial success of Fleming’s James Bond series allowed him to retire to Goldeneye, his estate in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica