James Bond's 45 drinks a week that would mean he's too drunk to do his job James Bond's 45 drinks a week that would mean he's too drunk to do his job In the novel Casino Royale by Ian Flemming, James Bond knocked back nearly 20 drinks before going on a high-speed car chase, getting in a wreck and then spending two weeks in the hospital. Bond's antics, including binge drinking, driving after drinking, fighting after drinking, having sex after drinking, and operating nuclear machinery after drinking have little to no impact on the levels of his high performance leves, as displayed in the books. A study by the British Medical Journal showed that the man with a license to kill would have struggled to steady his pistol, let alone ski jump off a cliff edge and parachute to safety (The Spy Who Loved Me). “His maximum daily consumption was 49.8 units," it said. “He had only 12.5 alcohol free days out of 87.5 days on which he was able to drink.”