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{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name = The Man with the Golden Gun
| title_orig =
| translator =
| image = The Man with the Golden Gun, wraparound cover.jpeg
| alt = A book cover, showing a drawing of a pistol, a snake's skeleton, four bullets and two flies
| caption = 1965 first edition cover, published by Jonathan Cape
| author = [[Ian Fleming]]
| illustrator =
| cover_artist = [[Richard Chopping]]
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| series = [[James Bond]]
| genre = [[Spy fiction]]
| publisher = [[Jonathan Cape]]
| release_date = 1 April 1965
| pages = 183
| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)
| isbn = <!-- first published before ISBN system started -->
| preceded_by = [[You Only Live Twice (novel)|You Only Live Twice]]
| followed_by = [[Octopussy and The Living Daylights]]
}}
'''''The Man with the Golden Gun''''' is the twelfth and final novel in [[Ian Fleming]]'s [[List of James Bond novels and short stories|James Bond series]] and thirteenth Bond book overall. It was first published by [[Jonathan Cape]] in the UK on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author's death. The novel was not as detailed or polished as the others in the series, leading to poor but polite reviews. Despite that, the book was a best-seller.
The story centres on the fictional British [[Secret Intelligence Service|Secret Service]] operative [[James Bond]], who had been posted missing, presumed dead, after [[You Only Live Twice (novel)|his last mission in Japan]]. Bond returns to Britain via the [[Soviet Union]], where he had been [[brainwashing|brainwashed]] to attempt to assassinate his superior, [[M (James Bond)|M]]. After being "cured" by the MI6 doctors, Bond is sent to the Caribbean to find and kill [[Francisco Scaramanga]], the titular "Man with the Golden Gun".
The first draft and part of the editing process was completed before Fleming's death and the manuscript had passed through the hands of his copy editor, [[William Plomer]], but it was not as polished as other Bond stories. Much of the detail contained in the previous novels was missing, as this was often added by Fleming in the second draft. Publishers Jonathan Cape passed the manuscript to [[Kingsley Amis]] for his thoughts and advice on the story, although his suggestions were not used.
The novel was serialised in 1965, firstly in the ''[[Daily Express]]'' and then in ''[[Playboy]]''; in 1966 a daily [[comic strip]] adaptation was also published in the ''Daily Express''. In 1974 the book was loosely adapted as the [[The Man with the Golden Gun (film)|ninth film]] in the [[Eon Productions]] [[James Bond in film|''James Bond'' series]], with [[Roger Moore]] playing Bond and Fleming's cousin, [[Christopher Lee]], as Scaramanga.
==Plot==
A year after James Bond's final confrontation with [[Ernst Stavro Blofeld]], while on [[You Only Live Twice (novel)|a mission in Japan]], a man claiming to be Bond appears in London and demands to meet the head of the [[Secret Intelligence Service|Secret Service]], M. Bond's identity is confirmed, but during his debriefing interview with M, Bond tries to kill him with a cyanide pistol; the attempt fails. The Service learns that after destroying Blofeld's castle in Japan, Bond suffered a head injury and developed [[amnesia]]. Having lived as a Japanese fisherman for several months, Bond travelled into the [[Soviet Union]] to learn his true identity. While there, he was [[Brainwashing|brainwashed]] and assigned to kill M upon returning to England.
Now [[deprogramming|de-programmed]], Bond is given a chance to again prove his worth as a member of the 00 section following the assassination attempt. M sends Bond to [[Jamaica]] and gives him the seemingly impossible mission of killing [[Francisco Scaramanga|Francisco "Pistols" Scaramanga]], a Cuban assassin who is believed to have killed several British secret agents. Scaramanga is known as "The Man with the Golden Gun" because his weapon of choice is a gold-plated [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt]] .45 revolver, which fires silver-jacketed solid-gold bullets.
Bond locates Scaramanga in a Jamaican bordello and manages to become his temporary personal assistant under the name "Mark Hazard". He learns that Scaramanga is involved in a hotel development on the island with a group of investors that consists of a syndicate of American [[gangsters]] and the [[KGB]]. Scaramanga and the other investors are also engaged in a scheme to destabilise Western interests in the [[Caribbean]]'s sugar industry and increase the value of the Cuban sugar crop, running drugs into America, smuggling prostitutes from Mexico into America and operating casinos in Jamaica that will cause friction between tourists and the local people.
Bond discovers that he has an ally who is also working undercover at the half-built resort, [[Felix Leiter]], who has been recalled to duty by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and is working ostensibly as an electrical engineer while setting up bugs in Scaramanga's meeting room. However, they learn that Scaramanga plans to eliminate Bond when the weekend is over. Bond's true identity is confirmed by a KGB agent and Scaramanga makes new plans to entertain the gangsters and the KGB agent by killing Bond while they are riding a sight-seeing train to a marina. However, Bond manages to turn the tables on Scaramanga and, with the help of Leiter, kill most of the conspirators. Wounded, Scaramanga escapes into the swamps, where Bond pursues him. Scaramanga lulls Bond off-guard and shoots him with a golden [[derringer]] hidden in his palm. Bond is hit but returns fire and shoots Scaramanga several times, killing him at last.
==Characters and themes==
The central character of the novel is James Bond. In ''The Man with the Golden Gun'', he appears with a different personality from the previous stories and is robot-like, according to author of the "continuation" Bond novels, [[Raymond Benson]].{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=142}} Benson also felt that Bond's character had not been developed any further than in the previous books.{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=142}} The historian [[Jeremy Black (historian)|Jeremy Black]] noted that when given two opportunities to kill Scaramanga in cold blood, he cannot bring himself to do it. The first time this happens, Bond sits in a car behind Scaramanga; the method of killing would be to shoot him in the back of the head and this is compared to the technique used by both the KGB and Nazis. According to Black, Bond has to rise above the actions and act more suitably for a British fictional hero.{{sfn|Black|2005|p=85}} Once the mission is completed, Bond is offered the [[Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]], but he refuses the honour and reflects on his own name, "a quiet, dull, anonymous name", which had been Fleming's aim when he first named the character.{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=65}} Benson also points out that the touches of humour displayed by Bond in the previous novels disappeared and he appeared in the book as cold and emotionless.{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=142}}
For the first time in the Bond canon, M's full name of "Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG" was finally revealed.{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=74}} Despite being the target of the failed assassination attempt, not only does M not press charges against Bond, he sends him out on further missions.{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=143}}
According to Benson, the main adversary of the novel, Francisco Scaramanga, is more a henchman than a major adversary and "a second-rate, smalltime crook who happens to have gotten lucky with his shooting."{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=142}} Comentale, Watt and Willman note that Scaramanga had the same character profile as Herr von Hammerstein, the former [[Gestapo]] officer who is the chief of counterintelligence for the Cuban secret service in
"[[For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)#"For Your Eyes Only"|For Your Eyes Only]]".{{sfn|Comentale|Watt|Willman|2005|p=177}}
There are two main themes in the novel. The first involves Scaramanga providing the [[Rastafarians]] with drugs in return for fires in the sugar plantations, a return of the theme used in "[[For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)#Risico|Risico]]", of drugs being used for political purposes to undermine the West.{{sfn|Black|2005|p=77}} This was part of a wider conspiracy by Scaramanga and his KGB connection, Hendricks, to destabilise the region by a campaign of industrial sabotage against companies based in Jamaica, including [[Reynolds Group Holdings|Reynolds Metal]], [[Kaiser Aluminum|Kaiser Bauxite]] and Aluminia.{{sfn|Black|2005|pp=76–77}}
Black notes that the independent inquiry at the end of the novel, conducted in Bond's hospital bedroom, was undertaken by the Jamaican judiciary and the CIA and MI6 were recorded as acting "under the closest liaison and direction of the Jamaican CID"; Bond and Leiter are also awarded the Jamaican Police Medal for "Services to the Independent State of Jamaica."{{sfn|Black|2005|p=78}} Black observes that this was the new world of a non-colonial, independent Jamaica, underlining the collapse of the [[British Empire]].{{sfn|Black|2005|p=78}}
==Background==<!-- This section is linked from [[Ian Fleming]] -->
[[File:GoldeneyeEstate.jpg|thumb|right|200px|alt=a single story white building with a grey roof and palm trees in the background|
Fleming's house, Goldeneye, where he wrote all the Bond novels, including ''The Man with the Golden Gun'']]
Ian Fleming wrote ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' at his [[Goldeneye (estate)|Goldeneye estate]] in Jamaica in January and February 1964,{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=208}} completing it by the beginning of March.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=436}} His health affected him badly during the writing process and he dropped from his usual rate of two thousand words a morning to a little over an hour's worth of work a day.{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=208}}
As with his previous novels, Fleming used events from his past as elements in his novel. Whilst at [[Kitzbühel]] in the 1930s, Fleming's car, a [[Standard Motor Company|Standard]] [[Tourer]], had been struck by a train at a level crossing and he had been dragged fifty yards down the track. From that time on he had associated trains with death, which led to their use as a plot device not just in ''The Man with the Golden Gun'', but also in [[Live and Let Die (novel)|''Live and Let Die'']], [[Diamonds Are Forever (novel)|''Diamonds Are Forever'']] and [[From Russia, with Love (novel)|''From Russia, with Love'']].{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=234}}
As well as using events from his past, Fleming also used names of individuals he knew for some of his characters. The editor of ''[[The London Magazine]]'', [[Alan Ross]], had provided Fleming with details about the effects of the [[Electroconvulsive therapy|electroshock therapy]] that Bond went through and, by way of thanks, the novel's SIS station chief in Jamaica, Commander Ross, was named after him.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=434}} Similarly, Fleming used the name of the secretary of the [[Royal St George's Golf Club]], Mark Nicholson, for the CIA representative at the hotel.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=434}} Tony Hugill, the sugar planter mentioned in the novel, was named after a member of Fleming's [[No. 30 Commando|30 AU unit]] who managed the [[Tate & Lyle]] plantations in the West Indies after the war{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=113}} and the book's main villain, Francisco Scaramanga, was named after George Scaramanga, an Etonian contemporary of Fleming's: the pair are said to have fought at school.{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=90}}
The effects of the two [[Eon Productions]] Bond films released prior to the writing of the novel ([[Dr. No (film)|''Dr. No'']] and [[From Russia with Love (film)|''From Russia with Love'']]) were reflected in the novel through the increased number of gadgets used.{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=234}} One of these was the poison gun used in the scene of the attempted assassination of M. The idea was taken from the story of [[Bohdan Stashynsky]], who defected from the [[Eastern Bloc]] to the West in 1961. Stashynsky was put on trial for the murder of [[Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists|Ukrainian nationalist]] leaders [[Lev Rebet]] and [[Stepan Bandera]] and stated that he had used a poison-spray gun to do it.{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=217}}{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=235}}
Fleming returned to Britain with a completed first draft of the manuscript in March 1964{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=436}} and wrote to the copy editor of all his novels, [[William Plomer]], saying it needed a lot of re-writing.{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=30}} As time went on Fleming became increasingly unhappy with the book and thought about re-working it in the spring of 1965, but was persuaded against it by Plomer, who considered the novel viable for publication.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=438}} Five months after returning from Jamaica, on the morning of 12 August 1964, Fleming died of a heart attack.<ref name="Times obit (1965)">{{cite news|title=Obituary: Mr. Ian Fleming|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=13 August 1964|page=12}}</ref> His obituary in ''[[The Times]]'' noted that he "had completed and was revising a new novel, ''The Man with the Golden Gun''."<ref name="Times obit (1965)"/>
Despite William Plomer's original thought about the state of the manuscript, editors Jonathan Cape were concerned enough about the story to pass the manuscript to [[Kingsley Amis]] to read on holiday, paying him £35/15 shillings for his thoughts and advice, although Amis' subsequent suggestions were not used by Cape.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=445}} Cape had taken the step because they thought the novel was thin and "feeble".{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=445}} Raymond Benson has noted that the thinness comes from a lack of the rich detail and descriptions which are normally present in Fleming's work, but which are missing from ''The Man with the Golden Gun''; Benson suggests that these details were normally worked into the second draft by Fleming, but their absence shows that no such additional work was done on this occasion.{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=141}} ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was published posthumously, eight months after its author's death.{{sfn|Black|2005|p=75}}
==Release and reception==
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''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was published in the UK on 1 April 1965{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=30}} by Jonathan Cape, was 221 pages long and cost eighteen [[shilling]]s.<ref name="Wordsworth (1965)">{{cite news|last=Wordsworth|first=Christopher|title=Trouble in Crete|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=2 April 1965|page=8}}</ref> Cover artist [[Richard Chopping]] undertook the cover design again and was paid 300 [[Guinea (British coin)|guineas]] for the artwork.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=437}} The design caused problems for Chopping, as it was not possible to show the full gun on the front cover at the scale he wanted, so he had to make it a wraparound cover, with the barrel extending onto the back cover. Chopping also incorporated the skull of a snake, which echoed the appearance of a snake at the book's climax. The illustration was based on a real gold-plated [[Colt SAA]], which was hired from a gunsmiths.{{sfn|Gilbert|2012|p=420}}{{sfn|Boothroyd|1970|p=236}}
''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was published in the US in August 1965, was 183 pages long and cost $4.50.<ref name="Poore (1965)">{{cite news|last=Poore|first=Charles|title=Books of the Times|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=26 August 1965}}</ref> Even before the US edition was published, ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was ninth place on the best-seller lists, with 80,000 pre-orders for the hardback version.<ref name="Time Mag (1965)"/>
===Reviews===
Critics did not praise ''The Man with the Golden Gun'', although much of the criticism was muted. Fleming biographer Henry Chandler noted that the novel "received polite and rather sad reviews, recognizing that the book had effectively been left half-finished, and as such did not represent Fleming at the top of his game."{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=233}} [[Kingsley Amis]] wrote in the ''[[New Statesman]]'' that the book was "a sadly empty tale, empty of the interests and effects that for better or worse, Ian Fleming made his own."{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=30}} Meanwhile, the critic for ''[[The Times]]'' wrote that the novel would "doubtless be followed with close attention by the keen-eyed admirers of the many-wiled Bond."<ref name="Times (1965)">{{cite news|title=New Fiction|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=1 April 1965|page=15}}</ref>
Maurice Richardson, writing in ''[[The Observer]]'', lamented that "perhaps Ian Fleming was very tired when he wrote it. Perhaps ... he left it unrevised. The fact remains that this posthumous Bond is a sadly sub-standard job."<ref name="Richardson (1965)">{{cite news|last=Richardson|first=Maurice|title=Bond's Last Case|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|date=4 April 1965|page=26}}</ref> His praise for the novel was muted, admitting "it isn't of course by any means totally unreadable but it's depressingly far from the best Bond."<ref name="Richardson (1965)"/> Writing in ''The Observer''{{'}}s sister paper, ''[[The Guardian]]'', Christopher Wordsworth noted that "since [[Goldfinger (novel)|''Goldfinger'']] 007 has been toiling hopelessly in the wake of the ''[[Zeitgeist]]''."<ref name="Wordsworth (1965)"/> Prior to this novel, Wordsworth writes, "the distance between ''[[Live and Let Die (novel)|Live and let Die]]'', Ian Fleming's second and best, and ''[[You Only Live Twice (novel)|You Only Live Twice]]'', his last and worst, is a long iron down the Sandwich fairway."<ref name="Wordsworth (1965)"/> ''The Man with the Golden Gun'', however, sinks to the level of a "farrago".<ref name="Wordsworth (1965)"/>
[[William Trevor]], writing in [[The Listener (magazine)|''The Listener'']], was dismissive of the work, thinking that "Bond continues to behave with so little originality that neither [[Simon Templar|Templar]] nor [[Bulldog Drummond|Drummond]], [[Philip Marlowe|Marlowe]] nor [[Nick and Nora Charles|Nick Charles]], would have paused to waste a pellet on him";<ref name="Trevor (1965)">{{cite news|last=Trevor|first=William|title=New Fiction|newspaper= [[The Listener (magazine)|The Listener]]|date=1 April 1965|page=497}}</ref> he continued, saying that "this present work is once again a fantasy for grown-up children, neither as clever nor exciting as the early thrillers of [[Edgar Wallace]] or the boys adventure stories of fifty years ago."<ref name="Trevor (1965)"/> Trevor did admit that "for those who like to escape to Bondsville, the old boom-town hasn't changed a scrap."<ref name="Trevor (1965)"/>
The critic for [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']] was damning, saying that "It may have been just as well that Fleming died when everybody still thought he could do no wrong".<ref name="Time Mag (1965)">{{cite news|title= Books: Current & Various|access-date=25 October 2011|newspaper= [[Time (magazine)|Time]]|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,834327,00.html#ixzz1Y7feBUEe|date=10 September 1965|page=1|url-status= dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203161201/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,834327,00.html|archive-date=3 February 2011}}</ref> Meanwhile, the critic for ''[[Newsweek]]'' said that "James Bond should have had a better exit. Sadly [it] ... ends not with a bang but a whimper. The world will be a vastly more lacklustre and complicated place with 007 gone."{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=235}}
The [[Associated Press]] wrote that "Bond and Fleming were fun. They entertained, sometimes mildly, often grandly – but always consistently. Life will be less interesting without them."{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=235}} In his review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', Charles Poore wrote that ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was "a gory, glittering saga".<ref name="Poore (1965)"/> Poore noted that "The Gee-whizzery ... starts early and never flags"<ref name="Poore (1965)"/> and that, despite the passing of Fleming, "the James Bond spirit soars on".<ref name="Poore (1965)"/> The critic for ''[[Books and Bookmen]]'' lamented the fact that "Bond has gone out like a lamb; even the girls are below par, while the villain seems like a refuge from a seedy Western. But we'll miss our James".{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=235}}
D.A.N. Jones, writing in ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', thought ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was "an innocuous run-of-the-mill adventure story of 1911 vintage",<ref>{{cite news|last=Jones|first=D.A.N.|title=Bondage (Subscription required)|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1965/oct/14/bondage/|access-date=26 October 2011|newspaper=[[The New York Review of Books]]|date=14 October 1965}}</ref> Anthony Lejeune, writing in the ''[[National Review]]'', thought that it "is undeniably slight, but, like everything Fleming wrote, intensely readable ... In a sense Fleming's job was finished. He had irrevocably transformed the genre in which he worked".{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=235}} Lejeune went on to say that "in highbrow novels sex and violence are treated gloomily: in Fleming's stories they are presented cheerfully with full enjoyment."{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=235}}
==Adaptations==
{{Further|The Man with the Golden Gun (film)|James Bond (comic strip)}}
;Newspaper serialisation (1965)
''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was published in [[serial (literature)|serial]] form in the ''[[Daily Express]]'' newspaper on a daily basis from 22 March 1965 onwards.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bond is Back|newspaper=[[Daily Express]]|date=18 March 1965|page=1}}</ref>
;''Playboy'' serialisation (1965)
This novel was also serialised over four issues of ''[[Playboy]]'' from April through July 1965.{{sfn|Lindner|2009|p=92}}
;Comic strip (1966)
The novel was adapted as a daily [[comic strip]] which was published in the ''Daily Express'' newspaper and syndicated around the world. The adaptation ran from 10 January to 10 September 1966. The adaptation was written by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by [[Yaroslav Horak]].{{sfn|Fleming|Gammidge|McLusky|1988|p=6}} The strip was reprinted by [[Titan Books]] in ''The James Bond Omnibus Vol. 2'', published in 2011.{{sfn|McLusky|Gammidge|Lawrence|Fleming|2011|p=76}}
;''The Man with the Golden Gun'' (1974)
In 1974, [[Eon Productions]] made the [[The Man with the Golden Gun (film)|ninth Bond film]], loosely based on the novel. The film starred [[Roger Moore]] as Bond and Fleming's cousin, [[Christopher Lee]], as Scaramanga.{{sfn|Barnes|Hearn|2001|p=82}} The film moved away from Jamaica to the Far East and borrowed from the [[Martial arts film|martial arts genre]]{{sfn|Smith|Lavington|2002|p=140}} that was popular in the 1970s. The plot also changed and used the [[1973 oil crisis|1973 energy crisis]] as a backdrop to the film,{{sfn|Black|2005|p=78}} allowing the [[MacGuffin]] of the "Solex agitator" to be introduced.{{sfn|Barnes|Hearn|2001|p=83}}
==See also==
{{Portalbar|1960s|Novels}}
{{wikiquote|Ian Fleming#The Man with the Golden Gun|''The Man with the Golden Gun''}}
* [[Outline of James Bond]]
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
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* {{Cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Alan |last2=Hearn |first2=Marcus |year=2001|title=Kiss Kiss Bang! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bond Film Companion|publisher=[[Batsford Books]]|isbn=978-0-7134-8182-2}}
* {{Cite book|last=Benson|first=Raymond|author-link=Raymond Benson|title=[[The James Bond Bedside Companion]]|year=1988|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Boxtree Ltd]]|location=London|isbn=978-1-85283-233-9}}
* {{Cite book|last=Black|first=Jeremy|author-link=Jeremy Black (historian)|title=The Politics of James Bond: from Fleming's Novel to the Big Screen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g4-sFrU8Xw0C&q=Clarence%20Leiter&pg=PP1|year=2005|publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]]|isbn=978-0-8032-6240-9}}
* {{cite book|last1=Boothroyd|first1=Geoffrey|author1-link=Geoffrey Boothroyd|title=The Handgun|date=1970|publisher=Bonanza Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-517-13238-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_0517132389}}
* {{Cite book|last= Chancellor|first= Henry|title=James Bond: The Man and His World|year=2005|publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]]|location=London|isbn=978-0-7195-6815-2}}
* {{Cite book |last1= Comentale |first1= Edward P| last2=Watt |first2=Stephen | last3=Willman |first3=Skip | year=2005 |title= Ian Fleming & James Bond: the cultural politics of 007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NpkbHkuxYTUC&pg=PP1|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|isbn= 978-0-253-21743-1}}
* {{cite book|last1=Fleming|first1=Ian|author-link1=Ian Fleming|last2=Gammidge|first2=Henry|author-link2=Henry Gammidge|last3= McLusky|first3=John|author-link3=John McLusky|title=Octopussy|year=1988|publisher=[[Titan Books]]|location=London|isbn=1-85286-040-5}}
* {{Cite book|last=Gilbert|first=Jon|author-link=Jon Gilbert|title=Ian Fleming: The Bibliography|year=2012|publisher=Queen Anne Press|location=London}}
* {{Cite book|last=Lindner|first=Christoph|title=The James Bond Phenomenon: a Critical Reader|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=x9-1QY5boUsC&pg=PP1|publisher=[[Manchester University Press]]|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7190-6541-5}}
* {{Cite book|last= Lycett|first= Andrew|author-link=Andrew Lycett|title= Ian Fleming|year=1996|publisher=Phoenix|location=London|isbn= 978-1-85799-783-5}}
* {{Cite book|last=Macintyre|first=Ben|author-link=Ben Macintyre|title=For Your Eyes Only|year=2008|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|location=London|isbn=978-0-7475-9527-4}}
* {{cite book|last1=McLusky|first1=John|last2=Gammidge|first2=Henry|last3=Lawrence|first3=Jim|last4=Fleming|first4=Ian |last5=Horak|first5=Yaroslav|author-link5=Yaroslav Horak|title=The James Bond Omnibus Vol. 2|year=2011|publisher=[[Titan Books]]|location=London|isbn=978-1-84856-432-9}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Jim |last2=Lavington |first2=Stephen |title=Bond Films |year=2002 |publisher=[[Virgin Books]] |location=London |isbn=978-0-7535-0709-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/bondfilms0000smit }}
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==External links==
* {{FadedPage|id=20180848|name=The Man with the Golden Gun}}
* [http://www.goldeneyebooks.com/ Ian Fleming Bibliography] of James Bond 1st Editions
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{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name = The Man with the Golden Gun
| title_orig =
| translator =
| image = The Man with the Golden Gun, wraparound cover.jpeg
| alt = A book cover, showing a drawing of a pistol, a snake's skeleton, four bullets and two flies
| caption = 1965 first edition cover, published by Jonathan Cape
| author = [[Ian Fleming]]
| illustrator =
| cover_artist = [[Richard Chopping]]
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| series = [[James Bond]]
| genre = [[Spy fiction]]
| publisher = [[Jonathan Cape]]
| release_date = 1 April 1965
| pages = 183
| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)
| isbn = <!-- first published before ISBN system started -->
| preceded_by = [[You Only Live Twice (novel)|You Only Live Twice]]
| followed_by = [[Octopussy and The Living Daylights]]
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'''''The Man with the Golden Gun''''' is the twelfth and final novel in [[Ian Fleming]]'s [[List of James Bond novels and short stories|James Bond series]] and thirteenth Bond book overall. It was first published by [[Jonathan Cape]] in the UK on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author's death. The novel was not as detailed or polished as the others in the series, leading to poor but polite reviews. Despite that, the book was a best-seller.
The story centres on the fictional British [[Secret Intelligence Service|Secret Service]] operative [[James Bond]], who had been posted missing, presumed dead, after [[You Only Live Twice (novel)|his last mission in Japan]]. Bond returns to Britain via the [[Soviet Union]], where he had been [[brainwashing|brainwashed]] to attempt to assassinate his superior, [[M (James Bond)|M]]. After being "cured" by the MI6 doctors, Bond is sent to the Caribbean to find and kill [[Francisco Scaramanga]], the titular "Man with the Golden Gun".
The first draft and part of the editing process was completed before Fleming's death and the manuscript had passed through the hands of his copy editor, [[William Plomer]], but it was not as polished as other Bond stories. Much of the detail contained in the previous novels was missing, as this was often added by Fleming in the second draft. Publishers Jonathan Cape passed the manuscript to [[Kingsley Amis]] for his thoughts and advice on the story, although his suggestions were not used.
The novel was serialised in 1965, firstly in the ''[[Daily Express]]'' and then in ''[[Playboy]]''; in 1966 a daily [[comic strip]] adaptation was also published in the ''Daily Express''. In 1974 the book was loosely adapted as the [[The Man with the Golden Gun (film)|ninth film]] in the [[Eon Productions]] [[James Bond in film|''James Bond'' series]], with [[Roger Moore]] playing Bond and Fleming's cousin, [[Christopher Lee]], as Scaramanga.
==Plot==
A year after James Bond's final confrontation with [[Ernst Stavro Blofeld]], while on [[You Only Live Twice (novel)|a mission in Japan]], a man claiming to be Bond appears in London and demands to meet the head of the [[Secret Intelligence Service|Secret Service]], M. Bond's identity is confirmed, but during his debriefing interview with M, Bond tries to kill him with a cyanide pistol; the attempt fails. The Service learns that after destroying Blofeld's castle in Japan, Bond suffered a head injury and developed [[amnesia]]. Having lived as a Japanese fisherman for several months, Bond travelled into the [[Soviet Union]] to learn his true identity. While there, he was [[Brainwashing|brainwashed]] and assigned to kill M upon returning to England.
Now [[deprogramming|de-programmed]], Bond is given a chance to again prove his worth as a member of the 00 section following the assassination attempt. M sends Bond to [[Jamaica]] and gives him the seemingly impossible mission of killing [[Francisco Scaramanga|Francisco "Pistols" Scaramanga]], a Cuban assassin who is believed to have killed several British secret agents. Scaramanga is known as "The Man with the Golden Gun" because his weapon of choice is a gold-plated [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt]] .45 revolver, which fires silver-jacketed solid-gold bullets.
Bond locates Scaramanga in a Jamaican bordello and manages to become his temporary personal assistant under the name "Mark Hazard". He learns that Scaramanga is involved in a hotel development on the island with a group of investors that consists of a syndicate of American [[gangsters]] and the [[KGB]]. Scaramanga and the other investors are also engaged in a scheme to destabilise Western interests in the [[Caribbean]]'s sugar industry and increase the value of the Cuban sugar crop, running drugs into America, smuggling prostitutes from Mexico into America and operating casinos in Jamaica that will cause friction between tourists and the local people.
Bond discovers that he has an ally who is also working undercover at the half-built resort, [[Felix Leiter]], who has been recalled to duty by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and is working ostensibly as an electrical engineer while setting up bugs in Scaramanga's meeting room. However, they learn that Scaramanga plans to eliminate Bond when the weekend is over. Bond's true identity is confirmed by a KGB agent and Scaramanga makes new plans to entertain the gangsters and the KGB agent by killing Bond while they are riding a sight-seeing train to a marina. However, Bond manages to turn the tables on Scaramanga and, with the help of Leiter, kill most of the conspirators. Wounded, Scaramanga escapes into the swamps, where Bond pursues him. Scaramanga lulls Bond off-guard and shoots him with a golden [[derringer]] hidden in his palm. Bond is hit but returns fire and shoots Scaramanga several times, killing him at last.
==Characters and themes==
The central character of the novel is James Bond. In ''The Man with the Golden Gun'', he appears with a different personality from the previous stories and is robot-like, according to author of the "continuation" Bond novels, [[Raymond Benson]].{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=142}} Benson also felt that Bond's character had not been developed any further than in the previous books.{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=142}} The historian [[Jeremy Black (historian)|Jeremy Black]] noted that when given two opportunities to kill Scaramanga in cold blood, he cannot bring himself to do it. The first time this happens, Bond sits in a car behind Scaramanga; the method of killing would be to shoot him in the back of the head and this is compared to the technique used by both the KGB and Nazis. According to Black, Bond has to rise above the actions and act more suitably for a British fictional hero.{{sfn|Black|2005|p=85}} Once the mission is completed, Bond is offered the [[Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]], but he refuses the honour and reflects on his own name, "a quiet, dull, anonymous name", which had been Fleming's aim when he first named the character.{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=65}} Benson also points out that the touches of humour displayed by Bond in the previous novels disappeared and he appeared in the book as cold and emotionless.{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=142}}
For the first time in the Bond canon, M's full name of "Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG" was finally revealed.{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=74}} Despite being the target of the failed assassination attempt, not only does M not press charges against Bond, he sends him out on further missions.{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=143}}
According to Benson, the main adversary of the novel, Francisco Scaramanga, is more a henchman than a major adversary and "a second-rate, smalltime crook who happens to have gotten lucky with his shooting."{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=142}} Comentale, Watt and Willman note that Scaramanga had the same character profile as Herr von Hammerstein, the former [[Gestapo]] officer who is the chief of counterintelligence for the Cuban secret service in
"[[For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)#"For Your Eyes Only"|For Your Eyes Only]]".{{sfn|Comentale|Watt|Willman|2005|p=177}}
There are two main themes in the novel. The first involves Scaramanga providing the [[Rastafarians]] with drugs in return for fires in the sugar plantations, a return of the theme used in "[[For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)#Risico|Risico]]", of drugs being used for political purposes to undermine the West.{{sfn|Black|2005|p=77}} This was part of a wider conspiracy by Scaramanga and his KGB connection, Hendricks, to destabilise the region by a campaign of industrial sabotage against companies based in Jamaica, including [[Reynolds Group Holdings|Reynolds Metal]], [[Kaiser Aluminum|Kaiser Bauxite]] and Aluminia.{{sfn|Black|2005|pp=76–77}}
Black notes that the independent inquiry at the end of the novel, conducted in Bond's hospital bedroom, was undertaken by the Jamaican judiciary and the CIA and MI6 were recorded as acting "under the closest liaison and direction of the Jamaican CID"; Bond and Leiter are also awarded the Jamaican Police Medal for "Services to the Independent State of Jamaica."{{sfn|Black|2005|p=78}} Black observes that this was the new world of a non-colonial, independent Jamaica, underlining the collapse of the [[British Empire]].{{sfn|Black|2005|p=78}}
==Background==<!-- This section is linked from [[Ian Fleming]] -->
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Fleming's house, Goldeneye, where he wrote all the Bond novels, including ''The Man with the Golden Gun'']]
Ian Fleming wrote ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' at his [[Goldeneye (estate)|Goldeneye estate]] in Jamaica in January and February 1964,{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=208}} completing it by the beginning of March.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=436}} His health affected him badly during the writing process and he dropped from his usual rate of two thousand words a morning to a little over an hour's worth of work a day.{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=208}}
As with his previous novels, Fleming used events from his past as elements in his novel. Whilst at [[Kitzbühel]] in the 1930s, Fleming's car, a [[Standard Motor Company|Standard]] [[Tourer]], had been struck by a train at a level crossing and he had been dragged fifty yards down the track. From that time on he had associated trains with death, which led to their use as a plot device not just in ''The Man with the Golden Gun'', but also in [[Live and Let Die (novel)|''Live and Let Die'']], [[Diamonds Are Forever (novel)|''Diamonds Are Forever'']] and [[From Russia, with Love (novel)|''From Russia, with Love'']].{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=234}}
As well as using events from his past, Fleming also used names of individuals he knew for some of his characters. The editor of ''[[The London Magazine]]'', [[Alan Ross]], had provided Fleming with details about the effects of the [[Electroconvulsive therapy|electroshock therapy]] that Bond went through and, by way of thanks, the novel's SIS station chief in Jamaica, Commander Ross, was named after him.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=434}} Similarly, Fleming used the name of the secretary of the [[Royal St George's Golf Club]], Mark Nicholson, for the CIA representative at the hotel.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=434}} Tony Hugill, the sugar planter mentioned in the novel, was named after a member of Fleming's [[No. 30 Commando|30 AU unit]] who managed the [[Tate & Lyle]] plantations in the West Indies after the war{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=113}} and the book's main villain, Francisco Scaramanga, was named after George Scaramanga, an Etonian contemporary of Fleming's: the pair are said to have fought at school.{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=90}}
The effects of the two [[Eon Productions]] Bond films released prior to the writing of the novel ([[Dr. No (film)|''Dr. No'']] and [[From Russia with Love (film)|''From Russia with Love'']]) were reflected in the novel through the increased number of gadgets used.{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=234}} One of these was the poison gun used in the scene of the attempted assassination of M. The idea was taken from the story of [[Bohdan Stashynsky]], who defected from the [[Eastern Bloc]] to the West in 1961. Stashynsky was put on trial for the murder of [[Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists|Ukrainian nationalist]] leaders [[Lev Rebet]] and [[Stepan Bandera]] and stated that he had used a poison-spray gun to do it.{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=217}}{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=235}}
Fleming returned to Britain with a completed first draft of the manuscript in March 1964{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=436}} and wrote to the copy editor of all his novels, [[William Plomer]], saying it needed a lot of re-writing.{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=30}} As time went on Fleming became increasingly unhappy with the book and thought about re-working it in the spring of 1965, but was persuaded against it by Plomer, who considered the novel viable for publication.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=438}} Five months after returning from Jamaica, on the morning of 12 August 1964, Fleming died of a heart attack.<ref name="Times obit (1965)">{{cite news|title=Obituary: Mr. Ian Fleming|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=13 August 1964|page=12}}</ref> His obituary in ''[[The Times]]'' noted that he "had completed and was revising a new novel, ''The Man with the Golden Gun''."<ref name="Times obit (1965)"/>
Despite William Plomer's original thought about the state of the manuscript, editors Jonathan Cape were concerned enough about the story to pass the manuscript to [[Kingsley Amis]] to read on holiday, paying him £35/15 shillings for his thoughts and advice, although Amis' subsequent suggestions were not used by Cape.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=445}} Cape had taken the step because they thought the novel was thin and "feeble".{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=445}} Raymond Benson has noted that the thinness comes from a lack of the rich detail and descriptions which are normally present in Fleming's work, but which are missing from ''The Man with the Golden Gun''; Benson suggests that these details were normally worked into the second draft by Fleming, but their absence shows that no such additional work was done on this occasion.{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=141}} ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was published posthumously, eight months after its author's death.{{sfn|Black|2005|p=75}}
==Release and reception==
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''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was published in the UK on 1 April 1965{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=30}} by Jonathan Cape, was 221 pages long and cost eighteen [[shilling]]s.<ref name="Wordsworth (1965)">{{cite news|last=Wordsworth|first=Christopher|title=Trouble in Crete|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=2 April 1965|page=8}}</ref> Cover artist [[Richard Chopping]] undertook the cover design again and was paid 300 [[Guinea (British coin)|guineas]] for the artwork.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=437}} The design caused problems for Chopping, as it was not possible to show the full gun on the front cover at the scale he wanted, so he had to make it a wraparound cover, with the barrel extending onto the back cover. Chopping also incorporated the skull of a snake, which echoed the appearance of a snake at the book's climax. The illustration was based on a real gold-plated [[Colt SAA]], which was hired from a gunsmiths.{{sfn|Gilbert|2012|p=420}}{{sfn|Boothroyd|1970|p=236}} Some booksellers did not like the wraparound cover, as it meant they had to display to books open for people to see the full cover.{{sfn|Cull|2015}}
''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was published in the US in August 1965, was 183 pages long and cost $4.50.<ref name="Poore (1965)">{{cite news|last=Poore|first=Charles|title=Books of the Times|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=26 August 1965}}</ref> Even before the US edition was published, ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was ninth place on the best-seller lists, with 80,000 pre-orders for the hardback version.<ref name="Time Mag (1965)"/>
===Reviews===
Critics did not praise ''The Man with the Golden Gun'', although much of the criticism was muted. Fleming biographer Henry Chandler noted that the novel "received polite and rather sad reviews, recognizing that the book had effectively been left half-finished, and as such did not represent Fleming at the top of his game."{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=233}} [[Kingsley Amis]] wrote in the ''[[New Statesman]]'' that the book was "a sadly empty tale, empty of the interests and effects that for better or worse, Ian Fleming made his own."{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=30}} Meanwhile, the critic for ''[[The Times]]'' wrote that the novel would "doubtless be followed with close attention by the keen-eyed admirers of the many-wiled Bond."<ref name="Times (1965)">{{cite news|title=New Fiction|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=1 April 1965|page=15}}</ref>
Maurice Richardson, writing in ''[[The Observer]]'', lamented that "perhaps Ian Fleming was very tired when he wrote it. Perhaps ... he left it unrevised. The fact remains that this posthumous Bond is a sadly sub-standard job."<ref name="Richardson (1965)">{{cite news|last=Richardson|first=Maurice|title=Bond's Last Case|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|date=4 April 1965|page=26}}</ref> His praise for the novel was muted, admitting "it isn't of course by any means totally unreadable but it's depressingly far from the best Bond."<ref name="Richardson (1965)"/> Writing in ''The Observer''{{'}}s sister paper, ''[[The Guardian]]'', Christopher Wordsworth noted that "since [[Goldfinger (novel)|''Goldfinger'']] 007 has been toiling hopelessly in the wake of the ''[[Zeitgeist]]''."<ref name="Wordsworth (1965)"/> Prior to this novel, Wordsworth writes, "the distance between ''[[Live and Let Die (novel)|Live and let Die]]'', Ian Fleming's second and best, and ''[[You Only Live Twice (novel)|You Only Live Twice]]'', his last and worst, is a long iron down the Sandwich fairway."<ref name="Wordsworth (1965)"/> ''The Man with the Golden Gun'', however, sinks to the level of a "farrago".<ref name="Wordsworth (1965)"/>
[[William Trevor]], writing in [[The Listener (magazine)|''The Listener'']], was dismissive of the work, thinking that "Bond continues to behave with so little originality that neither [[Simon Templar|Templar]] nor [[Bulldog Drummond|Drummond]], [[Philip Marlowe|Marlowe]] nor [[Nick and Nora Charles|Nick Charles]], would have paused to waste a pellet on him";<ref name="Trevor (1965)">{{cite news|last=Trevor|first=William|title=New Fiction|newspaper= [[The Listener (magazine)|The Listener]]|date=1 April 1965|page=497}}</ref> he continued, saying that "this present work is once again a fantasy for grown-up children, neither as clever nor exciting as the early thrillers of [[Edgar Wallace]] or the boys adventure stories of fifty years ago."<ref name="Trevor (1965)"/> Trevor did admit that "for those who like to escape to Bondsville, the old boom-town hasn't changed a scrap."<ref name="Trevor (1965)"/>
The critic for [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']] was damning, saying that "It may have been just as well that Fleming died when everybody still thought he could do no wrong".<ref name="Time Mag (1965)">{{cite news|title= Books: Current & Various|access-date=25 October 2011|newspaper= [[Time (magazine)|Time]]|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,834327,00.html#ixzz1Y7feBUEe|date=10 September 1965|page=1|url-status= dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203161201/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,834327,00.html|archive-date=3 February 2011}}</ref> Meanwhile, the critic for ''[[Newsweek]]'' said that "James Bond should have had a better exit. Sadly [it] ... ends not with a bang but a whimper. The world will be a vastly more lacklustre and complicated place with 007 gone."{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=235}}
The [[Associated Press]] wrote that "Bond and Fleming were fun. They entertained, sometimes mildly, often grandly – but always consistently. Life will be less interesting without them."{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=235}} In his review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', Charles Poore wrote that ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was "a gory, glittering saga".<ref name="Poore (1965)"/> Poore noted that "The Gee-whizzery ... starts early and never flags"<ref name="Poore (1965)"/> and that, despite the passing of Fleming, "the James Bond spirit soars on".<ref name="Poore (1965)"/> The critic for ''[[Books and Bookmen]]'' lamented the fact that "Bond has gone out like a lamb; even the girls are below par, while the villain seems like a refuge from a seedy Western. But we'll miss our James".{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=235}}
D.A.N. Jones, writing in ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', thought ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was "an innocuous run-of-the-mill adventure story of 1911 vintage",<ref>{{cite news|last=Jones|first=D.A.N.|title=Bondage (Subscription required)|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1965/oct/14/bondage/|access-date=26 October 2011|newspaper=[[The New York Review of Books]]|date=14 October 1965}}</ref> Anthony Lejeune, writing in the ''[[National Review]]'', thought that it "is undeniably slight, but, like everything Fleming wrote, intensely readable ... In a sense Fleming's job was finished. He had irrevocably transformed the genre in which he worked".{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=235}} Lejeune went on to say that "in highbrow novels sex and violence are treated gloomily: in Fleming's stories they are presented cheerfully with full enjoyment."{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=235}}
==Adaptations==
{{Further|The Man with the Golden Gun (film)|James Bond (comic strip)}}
;Newspaper serialisation (1965)
''The Man with the Golden Gun'' was published in [[serial (literature)|serial]] form in the ''[[Daily Express]]'' newspaper on a daily basis from 22 March 1965 onwards.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bond is Back|newspaper=[[Daily Express]]|date=18 March 1965|page=1}}</ref>
;''Playboy'' serialisation (1965)
This novel was also serialised over four issues of ''[[Playboy]]'' from April through July 1965.{{sfn|Lindner|2009|p=92}}
;Comic strip (1966)
The novel was adapted as a daily [[comic strip]] which was published in the ''Daily Express'' newspaper and syndicated around the world. The adaptation ran from 10 January to 10 September 1966. The adaptation was written by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by [[Yaroslav Horak]].{{sfn|Fleming|Gammidge|McLusky|1988|p=6}} The strip was reprinted by [[Titan Books]] in ''The James Bond Omnibus Vol. 2'', published in 2011.{{sfn|McLusky|Gammidge|Lawrence|Fleming|2011|p=76}}
;''The Man with the Golden Gun'' (1974)
In 1974, [[Eon Productions]] made the [[The Man with the Golden Gun (film)|ninth Bond film]], loosely based on the novel. The film starred [[Roger Moore]] as Bond and Fleming's cousin, [[Christopher Lee]], as Scaramanga.{{sfn|Barnes|Hearn|2001|p=82}} The film moved away from Jamaica to the Far East and borrowed from the [[Martial arts film|martial arts genre]]{{sfn|Smith|Lavington|2002|p=140}} that was popular in the 1970s. The plot also changed and used the [[1973 oil crisis|1973 energy crisis]] as a backdrop to the film,{{sfn|Black|2005|p=78}} allowing the [[MacGuffin]] of the "Solex agitator" to be introduced.{{sfn|Barnes|Hearn|2001|p=83}}
==See also==
{{Portalbar|1960s|Novels}}
{{wikiquote|Ian Fleming#The Man with the Golden Gun|''The Man with the Golden Gun''}}
* [[Outline of James Bond]]
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
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* {{Cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Alan |last2=Hearn |first2=Marcus |year=2001|title=Kiss Kiss Bang! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bond Film Companion|publisher=[[Batsford Books]]|isbn=978-0-7134-8182-2}}
* {{Cite book|last=Benson|first=Raymond|author-link=Raymond Benson|title=[[The James Bond Bedside Companion]]|year=1988|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Boxtree Ltd]]|location=London|isbn=978-1-85283-233-9}}
* {{Cite book|last=Black|first=Jeremy|author-link=Jeremy Black (historian)|title=The Politics of James Bond: from Fleming's Novel to the Big Screen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g4-sFrU8Xw0C&q=Clarence%20Leiter&pg=PP1|year=2005|publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]]|isbn=978-0-8032-6240-9}}
* {{cite book|last1=Boothroyd|first1=Geoffrey|author1-link=Geoffrey Boothroyd|title=The Handgun|date=1970|publisher=Bonanza Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-517-13238-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_0517132389}}
* {{Cite book|last= Chancellor|first= Henry|title=James Bond: The Man and His World|year=2005|publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]]|location=London|isbn=978-0-7195-6815-2}}
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* {{cite book|last1=Fleming|first1=Ian|author-link1=Ian Fleming|last2=Gammidge|first2=Henry|author-link2=Henry Gammidge|last3= McLusky|first3=John|author-link3=John McLusky|title=Octopussy|year=1988|publisher=[[Titan Books]]|location=London|isbn=1-85286-040-5}}
* {{Cite book|last=Gilbert|first=Jon|author-link=Jon Gilbert|title=Ian Fleming: The Bibliography|year=2012|publisher=Queen Anne Press|location=London}}
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* {{Cite book|last= Lycett|first= Andrew|author-link=Andrew Lycett|title= Ian Fleming|year=1996|publisher=Phoenix|location=London|isbn= 978-1-85799-783-5}}
* {{Cite book|last=Macintyre|first=Ben|author-link=Ben Macintyre|title=For Your Eyes Only|year=2008|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|location=London|isbn=978-0-7475-9527-4}}
* {{cite book|last1=McLusky|first1=John|last2=Gammidge|first2=Henry|last3=Lawrence|first3=Jim|last4=Fleming|first4=Ian |last5=Horak|first5=Yaroslav|author-link5=Yaroslav Horak|title=The James Bond Omnibus Vol. 2|year=2011|publisher=[[Titan Books]]|location=London|isbn=978-1-84856-432-9}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Jim |last2=Lavington |first2=Stephen |title=Bond Films |year=2002 |publisher=[[Virgin Books]] |location=London |isbn=978-0-7535-0709-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/bondfilms0000smit }}
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==External links==
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* [http://www.goldeneyebooks.com/ Ian Fleming Bibliography] of James Bond 1st Editions
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<p><i><b>The Man with the Golden Gun</b></i> is the twelfth and final novel in <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming" title="Ian Fleming">Ian Fleming</a>'s <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_novels_and_short_stories" title="List of James Bond novels and short stories">James Bond series</a> and thirteenth Bond book overall. It was first published by <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Cape" title="Jonathan Cape">Jonathan Cape</a> in the UK on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author's death. The novel was not as detailed or polished as the others in the series, leading to poor but polite reviews. Despite that, the book was a best-seller.
</p><p>The story centres on the fictional British <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret Intelligence Service">Secret Service</a> operative <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond" title="James Bond">James Bond</a>, who had been posted missing, presumed dead, after <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(novel)" title="You Only Live Twice (novel)">his last mission in Japan</a>. Bond returns to Britain via the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, where he had been <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing" title="Brainwashing">brainwashed</a> to attempt to assassinate his superior, <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(James_Bond)" title="M (James Bond)">M</a>. After being "cured" by the MI6 doctors, Bond is sent to the Caribbean to find and kill <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Scaramanga" title="Francisco Scaramanga">Francisco Scaramanga</a>, the titular "Man with the Golden Gun".
</p><p>The first draft and part of the editing process was completed before Fleming's death and the manuscript had passed through the hands of his copy editor, <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Plomer" title="William Plomer">William Plomer</a>, but it was not as polished as other Bond stories. Much of the detail contained in the previous novels was missing, as this was often added by Fleming in the second draft. Publishers Jonathan Cape passed the manuscript to <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis" title="Kingsley Amis">Kingsley Amis</a> for his thoughts and advice on the story, although his suggestions were not used.
</p><p>The novel was serialised in 1965, firstly in the <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Express" title="Daily Express">Daily Express</a></i> and then in <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy</a></i>; in 1966 a daily <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_strip" title="Comic strip">comic strip</a> adaptation was also published in the <i>Daily Express</i>. In 1974 the book was loosely adapted as the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_(film)" title="The Man with the Golden Gun (film)">ninth film</a> in the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eon_Productions" title="Eon Productions">Eon Productions</a> <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_in_film" class="mw-redirect" title="James Bond in film"><i>James Bond</i> series</a>, with <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Moore" title="Roger Moore">Roger Moore</a> playing Bond and Fleming's cousin, <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee" title="Christopher Lee">Christopher Lee</a>, as Scaramanga.
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Plot"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Plot</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Characters_and_themes"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Characters and themes</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Background"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Background</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Release_and_reception"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Release and reception</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Bibliography"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Bibliography</span></a></li>
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<p>A year after James Bond's final confrontation with <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Stavro_Blofeld" title="Ernst Stavro Blofeld">Ernst Stavro Blofeld</a>, while on <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(novel)" title="You Only Live Twice (novel)">a mission in Japan</a>, a man claiming to be Bond appears in London and demands to meet the head of the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret Intelligence Service">Secret Service</a>, M. Bond's identity is confirmed, but during his debriefing interview with M, Bond tries to kill him with a cyanide pistol; the attempt fails. The Service learns that after destroying Blofeld's castle in Japan, Bond suffered a head injury and developed <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesia" title="Amnesia">amnesia</a>. Having lived as a Japanese fisherman for several months, Bond travelled into the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> to learn his true identity. While there, he was <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing" title="Brainwashing">brainwashed</a> and assigned to kill M upon returning to England.
</p><p>Now <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprogramming" title="Deprogramming">de-programmed</a>, Bond is given a chance to again prove his worth as a member of the 00 section following the assassination attempt. M sends Bond to <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a> and gives him the seemingly impossible mission of killing <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Scaramanga" title="Francisco Scaramanga">Francisco "Pistols" Scaramanga</a>, a Cuban assassin who is believed to have killed several British secret agents. Scaramanga is known as "The Man with the Golden Gun" because his weapon of choice is a gold-plated <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt%27s_Manufacturing_Company" title="Colt's Manufacturing Company">Colt</a> .45 revolver, which fires silver-jacketed solid-gold bullets.
</p><p>Bond locates Scaramanga in a Jamaican bordello and manages to become his temporary personal assistant under the name "Mark Hazard". He learns that Scaramanga is involved in a hotel development on the island with a group of investors that consists of a syndicate of American <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsters" class="mw-redirect" title="Gangsters">gangsters</a> and the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB" title="KGB">KGB</a>. Scaramanga and the other investors are also engaged in a scheme to destabilise Western interests in the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a>'s sugar industry and increase the value of the Cuban sugar crop, running drugs into America, smuggling prostitutes from Mexico into America and operating casinos in Jamaica that will cause friction between tourists and the local people.
</p><p>Bond discovers that he has an ally who is also working undercover at the half-built resort, <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Leiter" title="Felix Leiter">Felix Leiter</a>, who has been recalled to duty by the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</a> and is working ostensibly as an electrical engineer while setting up bugs in Scaramanga's meeting room. However, they learn that Scaramanga plans to eliminate Bond when the weekend is over. Bond's true identity is confirmed by a KGB agent and Scaramanga makes new plans to entertain the gangsters and the KGB agent by killing Bond while they are riding a sight-seeing train to a marina. However, Bond manages to turn the tables on Scaramanga and, with the help of Leiter, kill most of the conspirators. Wounded, Scaramanga escapes into the swamps, where Bond pursues him. Scaramanga lulls Bond off-guard and shoots him with a golden <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derringer" title="Derringer">derringer</a> hidden in his palm. Bond is hit but returns fire and shoots Scaramanga several times, killing him at last.
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<p>The central character of the novel is James Bond. In <i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i>, he appears with a different personality from the previous stories and is robot-like, according to author of the "continuation" Bond novels, <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Benson" title="Raymond Benson">Raymond Benson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBenson1988142_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenson1988142-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Benson also felt that Bond's character had not been developed any further than in the previous books.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBenson1988142_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenson1988142-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The historian <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Black_(historian)" title="Jeremy Black (historian)">Jeremy Black</a> noted that when given two opportunities to kill Scaramanga in cold blood, he cannot bring himself to do it. The first time this happens, Bond sits in a car behind Scaramanga; the method of killing would be to shoot him in the back of the head and this is compared to the technique used by both the KGB and Nazis. According to Black, Bond has to rise above the actions and act more suitably for a British fictional hero.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlack200585_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlack200585-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Once the mission is completed, Bond is offered the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George" title="Order of St Michael and St George">KCMG</a>, but he refuses the honour and reflects on his own name, "a quiet, dull, anonymous name", which had been Fleming's aim when he first named the character.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200865_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200865-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Benson also points out that the touches of humour displayed by Bond in the previous novels disappeared and he appeared in the book as cold and emotionless.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBenson1988142_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenson1988142-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>For the first time in the Bond canon, M's full name of "Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG" was finally revealed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200874_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200874-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite being the target of the failed assassination attempt, not only does M not press charges against Bond, he sends him out on further missions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBenson1988143_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenson1988143-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>According to Benson, the main adversary of the novel, Francisco Scaramanga, is more a henchman than a major adversary and "a second-rate, smalltime crook who happens to have gotten lucky with his shooting."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBenson1988142_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenson1988142-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Comentale, Watt and Willman note that Scaramanga had the same character profile as Herr von Hammerstein, the former <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo" title="Gestapo">Gestapo</a> officer who is the chief of counterintelligence for the Cuban secret service in
"<a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Your_Eyes_Only_(short_story_collection)#"For_Your_Eyes_Only"" title="For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)">For Your Eyes Only</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEComentaleWattWillman2005177_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEComentaleWattWillman2005177-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>There are two main themes in the novel. The first involves Scaramanga providing the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafarians" class="mw-redirect" title="Rastafarians">Rastafarians</a> with drugs in return for fires in the sugar plantations, a return of the theme used in "<a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Your_Eyes_Only_(short_story_collection)#Risico" title="For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)">Risico</a>", of drugs being used for political purposes to undermine the West.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlack200577_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlack200577-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was part of a wider conspiracy by Scaramanga and his KGB connection, Hendricks, to destabilise the region by a campaign of industrial sabotage against companies based in Jamaica, including <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_Group_Holdings" title="Reynolds Group Holdings">Reynolds Metal</a>, <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Aluminum" title="Kaiser Aluminum">Kaiser Bauxite</a> and Aluminia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlack200576–77_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlack200576–77-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Black notes that the independent inquiry at the end of the novel, conducted in Bond's hospital bedroom, was undertaken by the Jamaican judiciary and the CIA and MI6 were recorded as acting "under the closest liaison and direction of the Jamaican CID"; Bond and Leiter are also awarded the Jamaican Police Medal for "Services to the Independent State of Jamaica."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlack200578_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlack200578-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Black observes that this was the new world of a non-colonial, independent Jamaica, underlining the collapse of the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlack200578_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlack200578-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Ian Fleming wrote <i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i> at his <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldeneye_(estate)" title="Goldeneye (estate)">Goldeneye estate</a> in Jamaica in January and February 1964,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre2008208_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre2008208-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> completing it by the beginning of March.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELycett1996436_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELycett1996436-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His health affected him badly during the writing process and he dropped from his usual rate of two thousand words a morning to a little over an hour's worth of work a day.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre2008208_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre2008208-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>As with his previous novels, Fleming used events from his past as elements in his novel. Whilst at <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzb%C3%BChel" title="Kitzbühel">Kitzbühel</a> in the 1930s, Fleming's car, a <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Motor_Company" title="Standard Motor Company">Standard</a> <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourer" class="mw-redirect" title="Tourer">Tourer</a>, had been struck by a train at a level crossing and he had been dragged fifty yards down the track. From that time on he had associated trains with death, which led to their use as a plot device not just in <i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i>, but also in <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_(novel)" title="Live and Let Die (novel)"><i>Live and Let Die</i></a>, <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_Are_Forever_(novel)" title="Diamonds Are Forever (novel)"><i>Diamonds Are Forever</i></a> and <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia,_with_Love_(novel)" title="From Russia, with Love (novel)"><i>From Russia, with Love</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005234_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005234-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>As well as using events from his past, Fleming also used names of individuals he knew for some of his characters. The editor of <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_London_Magazine" title="The London Magazine">The London Magazine</a></i>, <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ross" title="Alan Ross">Alan Ross</a>, had provided Fleming with details about the effects of the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy" title="Electroconvulsive therapy">electroshock therapy</a> that Bond went through and, by way of thanks, the novel's SIS station chief in Jamaica, Commander Ross, was named after him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELycett1996434_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELycett1996434-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly, Fleming used the name of the secretary of the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_St_George%27s_Golf_Club" title="Royal St George's Golf Club">Royal St George's Golf Club</a>, Mark Nicholson, for the CIA representative at the hotel.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELycett1996434_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELycett1996434-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tony Hugill, the sugar planter mentioned in the novel, was named after a member of Fleming's <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._30_Commando" title="No. 30 Commando">30 AU unit</a> who managed the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_%26_Lyle" title="Tate & Lyle">Tate & Lyle</a> plantations in the West Indies after the war<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005113_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005113-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the book's main villain, Francisco Scaramanga, was named after George Scaramanga, an Etonian contemporary of Fleming's: the pair are said to have fought at school.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200890_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200890-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The effects of the two <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eon_Productions" title="Eon Productions">Eon Productions</a> Bond films released prior to the writing of the novel (<a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._No_(film)" title="Dr. No (film)"><i>Dr. No</i></a> and <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia_with_Love_(film)" title="From Russia with Love (film)"><i>From Russia with Love</i></a>) were reflected in the novel through the increased number of gadgets used.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005234_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005234-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of these was the poison gun used in the scene of the attempted assassination of M. The idea was taken from the story of <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohdan_Stashynsky" title="Bohdan Stashynsky">Bohdan Stashynsky</a>, who defected from the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Eastern Bloc</a> to the West in 1961. Stashynsky was put on trial for the murder of <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists" class="mw-redirect" title="Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists">Ukrainian nationalist</a> leaders <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Rebet" title="Lev Rebet">Lev Rebet</a> and <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera" title="Stepan Bandera">Stepan Bandera</a> and stated that he had used a poison-spray gun to do it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005217_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005217-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005235_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005235-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Fleming returned to Britain with a completed first draft of the manuscript in March 1964<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELycett1996436_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELycett1996436-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and wrote to the copy editor of all his novels, <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Plomer" title="William Plomer">William Plomer</a>, saying it needed a lot of re-writing.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBenson198830_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenson198830-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As time went on Fleming became increasingly unhappy with the book and thought about re-working it in the spring of 1965, but was persuaded against it by Plomer, who considered the novel viable for publication.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELycett1996438_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELycett1996438-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Five months after returning from Jamaica, on the morning of 12 August 1964, Fleming died of a heart attack.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_obit_(1965)_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_obit_(1965)-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His obituary in <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> noted that he "had completed and was revising a new novel, <i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-Times_obit_(1965)_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_obit_(1965)-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Despite William Plomer's original thought about the state of the manuscript, editors Jonathan Cape were concerned enough about the story to pass the manuscript to <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis" title="Kingsley Amis">Kingsley Amis</a> to read on holiday, paying him £35/15 shillings for his thoughts and advice, although Amis' subsequent suggestions were not used by Cape.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELycett1996445_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELycett1996445-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cape had taken the step because they thought the novel was thin and "feeble".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELycett1996445_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELycett1996445-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Raymond Benson has noted that the thinness comes from a lack of the rich detail and descriptions which are normally present in Fleming's work, but which are missing from <i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i>; Benson suggests that these details were normally worked into the second draft by Fleming, but their absence shows that no such additional work was done on this occasion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBenson1988141_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenson1988141-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i> was published posthumously, eight months after its author's death.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlack200575_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlack200575-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>This is, alas, the last Bond and, again alas, I mean it, for I really have run out of puff and zest
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<p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="right-aligned" style="">Ian Fleming, letter to William Plomer<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELycett1996438_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELycett1996438-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></p>
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<p><i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i> was published in the UK on 1 April 1965<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBenson198830_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenson198830-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by Jonathan Cape, was 221 pages long and cost eighteen <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling">shillings</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wordsworth_(1965)_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wordsworth_(1965)-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cover artist <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Chopping" title="Richard Chopping">Richard Chopping</a> undertook the cover design again and was paid 300 <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(British_coin)" class="mw-redirect" title="Guinea (British coin)">guineas</a> for the artwork.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELycett1996437_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELycett1996437-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The design caused problems for Chopping, as it was not possible to show the full gun on the front cover at the scale he wanted, so he had to make it a wraparound cover, with the barrel extending onto the back cover. Chopping also incorporated the skull of a snake, which echoed the appearance of a snake at the book's climax. The illustration was based on a real gold-plated <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_SAA" class="mw-redirect" title="Colt SAA">Colt SAA</a>, which was hired from a gunsmiths.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGilbert2012420_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGilbert2012420-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoothroyd1970236_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoothroyd1970236-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some booksellers did not like the wraparound cover, as it meant they had to display to books open for people to see the full cover.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECull2015_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECull2015-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i> was published in the US in August 1965, was 183 pages long and cost $4.50.<sup id="cite_ref-Poore_(1965)_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poore_(1965)-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even before the US edition was published, <i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i> was ninth place on the best-seller lists, with 80,000 pre-orders for the hardback version.<sup id="cite_ref-Time_Mag_(1965)_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time_Mag_(1965)-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Critics did not praise <i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i>, although much of the criticism was muted. Fleming biographer Henry Chandler noted that the novel "received polite and rather sad reviews, recognizing that the book had effectively been left half-finished, and as such did not represent Fleming at the top of his game."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005233_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005233-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis" title="Kingsley Amis">Kingsley Amis</a> wrote in the <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Statesman" title="New Statesman">New Statesman</a></i> that the book was "a sadly empty tale, empty of the interests and effects that for better or worse, Ian Fleming made his own."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBenson198830_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenson198830-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, the critic for <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> wrote that the novel would "doubtless be followed with close attention by the keen-eyed admirers of the many-wiled Bond."<sup id="cite_ref-Times_(1965)_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_(1965)-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Maurice Richardson, writing in <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i>, lamented that "perhaps Ian Fleming was very tired when he wrote it. Perhaps ... he left it unrevised. The fact remains that this posthumous Bond is a sadly sub-standard job."<sup id="cite_ref-Richardson_(1965)_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Richardson_(1965)-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His praise for the novel was muted, admitting "it isn't of course by any means totally unreadable but it's depressingly far from the best Bond."<sup id="cite_ref-Richardson_(1965)_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Richardson_(1965)-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writing in <i>The Observer</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s sister paper, <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, Christopher Wordsworth noted that "since <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_(novel)" title="Goldfinger (novel)"><i>Goldfinger</i></a> 007 has been toiling hopelessly in the wake of the <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist" title="Zeitgeist">Zeitgeist</a></i>."<sup id="cite_ref-Wordsworth_(1965)_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wordsworth_(1965)-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prior to this novel, Wordsworth writes, "the distance between <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_(novel)" title="Live and Let Die (novel)">Live and let Die</a></i>, Ian Fleming's second and best, and <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(novel)" title="You Only Live Twice (novel)">You Only Live Twice</a></i>, his last and worst, is a long iron down the Sandwich fairway."<sup id="cite_ref-Wordsworth_(1965)_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wordsworth_(1965)-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i>, however, sinks to the level of a "farrago".<sup id="cite_ref-Wordsworth_(1965)_24-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wordsworth_(1965)-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Trevor" title="William Trevor">William Trevor</a>, writing in <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Listener_(magazine)" title="The Listener (magazine)"><i>The Listener</i></a>, was dismissive of the work, thinking that "Bond continues to behave with so little originality that neither <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Templar" class="mw-redirect" title="Simon Templar">Templar</a> nor <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldog_Drummond" title="Bulldog Drummond">Drummond</a>, <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe" title="Philip Marlowe">Marlowe</a> nor <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_and_Nora_Charles" title="Nick and Nora Charles">Nick Charles</a>, would have paused to waste a pellet on him";<sup id="cite_ref-Trevor_(1965)_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trevor_(1965)-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he continued, saying that "this present work is once again a fantasy for grown-up children, neither as clever nor exciting as the early thrillers of <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Wallace" title="Edgar Wallace">Edgar Wallace</a> or the boys adventure stories of fifty years ago."<sup id="cite_ref-Trevor_(1965)_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trevor_(1965)-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Trevor did admit that "for those who like to escape to Bondsville, the old boom-town hasn't changed a scrap."<sup id="cite_ref-Trevor_(1965)_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trevor_(1965)-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The critic for <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)"><i>Time</i></a> was damning, saying that "It may have been just as well that Fleming died when everybody still thought he could do no wrong".<sup id="cite_ref-Time_Mag_(1965)_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time_Mag_(1965)-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, the critic for <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a></i> said that "James Bond should have had a better exit. Sadly [it] ... ends not with a bang but a whimper. The world will be a vastly more lacklustre and complicated place with 007 gone."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005235_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005235-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> wrote that "Bond and Fleming were fun. They entertained, sometimes mildly, often grandly – but always consistently. Life will be less interesting without them."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005235_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005235-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his review for <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, Charles Poore wrote that <i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i> was "a gory, glittering saga".<sup id="cite_ref-Poore_(1965)_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poore_(1965)-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Poore noted that "The Gee-whizzery ... starts early and never flags"<sup id="cite_ref-Poore_(1965)_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poore_(1965)-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that, despite the passing of Fleming, "the James Bond spirit soars on".<sup id="cite_ref-Poore_(1965)_29-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poore_(1965)-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The critic for <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_and_Bookmen" title="Books and Bookmen">Books and Bookmen</a></i> lamented the fact that "Bond has gone out like a lamb; even the girls are below par, while the villain seems like a refuge from a seedy Western. But we'll miss our James".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005235_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005235-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>D.A.N. Jones, writing in <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Review_of_Books" title="The New York Review of Books">The New York Review of Books</a></i>, thought <i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i> was "an innocuous run-of-the-mill adventure story of 1911 vintage",<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Anthony Lejeune, writing in the <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a></i>, thought that it "is undeniably slight, but, like everything Fleming wrote, intensely readable ... In a sense Fleming's job was finished. He had irrevocably transformed the genre in which he worked".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005235_17-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005235-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lejeune went on to say that "in highbrow novels sex and violence are treated gloomily: in Fleming's stories they are presented cheerfully with full enjoyment."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005235_17-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChancellor2005235-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<dl><dt>Newspaper serialisation (1965)</dt></dl>
<p><i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i> was published in <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(literature)" title="Serial (literature)">serial</a> form in the <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Express" title="Daily Express">Daily Express</a></i> newspaper on a daily basis from 22 March 1965 onwards.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<dl><dt><i>Playboy</i> serialisation (1965)</dt></dl>
<p>This novel was also serialised over four issues of <i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy</a></i> from April through July 1965.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELindner200992_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELindner200992-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<dl><dt>Comic strip (1966)</dt></dl>
<p>The novel was adapted as a daily <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_strip" title="Comic strip">comic strip</a> which was published in the <i>Daily Express</i> newspaper and syndicated around the world. The adaptation ran from 10 January to 10 September 1966. The adaptation was written by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslav_Horak" title="Yaroslav Horak">Yaroslav Horak</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFlemingGammidgeMcLusky19886_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFlemingGammidgeMcLusky19886-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The strip was reprinted by <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Titan Books">Titan Books</a> in <i>The James Bond Omnibus Vol. 2</i>, published in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcLuskyGammidgeLawrenceFleming201176_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcLuskyGammidgeLawrenceFleming201176-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<dl><dt><i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i> (1974)</dt></dl>
<p>In 1974, <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eon_Productions" title="Eon Productions">Eon Productions</a> made the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_(film)" title="The Man with the Golden Gun (film)">ninth Bond film</a>, loosely based on the novel. The film starred <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Moore" title="Roger Moore">Roger Moore</a> as Bond and Fleming's cousin, <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee" title="Christopher Lee">Christopher Lee</a>, as Scaramanga.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarnesHearn200182_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnesHearn200182-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film moved away from Jamaica to the Far East and borrowed from the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_arts_film" title="Martial arts film">martial arts genre</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmithLavington2002140_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmithLavington2002140-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that was popular in the 1970s. The plot also changed and used the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis" title="1973 oil crisis">1973 energy crisis</a> as a backdrop to the film,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlack200578_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlack200578-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> allowing the <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin" title="MacGuffin">MacGuffin</a> of the "Solex agitator" to be introduced.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarnesHearn200183_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnesHearn200183-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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Bond">James Bond</a></i> in <a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_novels_and_short_stories" title="List of James Bond novels and short stories">literature</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)" title="James Bond (literary character)">James Bond</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>James Bond</i><br />series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming" title="Ian Fleming">Ian Fleming</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(novel)" title="Casino Royale (novel)">Casino Royale</a></i> (1953)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_(novel)" title="Live and Let Die (novel)">Live and Let Die</a></i> (1954)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonraker_(novel)" title="Moonraker (novel)">Moonraker</a></i> (1955)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_Are_Forever_(novel)" title="Diamonds Are Forever (novel)">Diamonds Are Forever</a></i> (1956)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia,_with_Love_(novel)" title="From Russia, with Love (novel)">From Russia, with Love</a></i> (1957)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._No_(novel)" title="Dr. No (novel)">Dr. No</a></i> (1958)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_(novel)" title="Goldfinger (novel)">Goldfinger</a></i> (1959)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Your_Eyes_Only_(short_story_collection)" title="For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)">For Your Eyes Only</a></i> (1960)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderball_(novel)" title="Thunderball (novel)">Thunderball</a></i> (1961)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Loved_Me_(novel)" title="The Spy Who Loved Me (novel)">The Spy Who Loved Me</a></i> (1962)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Her_Majesty%27s_Secret_Service_(novel)" title="On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel)">On Her Majesty's Secret Service</a></i> (1963)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(novel)" title="You Only Live Twice (novel)">You Only Live Twice</a></i> (1964)</li>
<li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Man with the Golden Gun</a></i> (1965)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopussy_and_The_Living_Daylights" title="Octopussy and The Living Daylights">Octopussy and The Living Daylights</a></i> (1966)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis" title="Kingsley Amis">Kingsley Amis</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sun" title="Colonel Sun">Colonel Sun</a></i> (1968)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gardner_(British_writer)" title="John Gardner (British writer)">John Gardner</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_Renewed" title="Licence Renewed">Licence Renewed</a></i> (1981)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Special_Services" title="For Special Services">For Special Services</a></i> (1982)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebreaker_(novel)" title="Icebreaker (novel)">Icebreaker</a></i> (1983)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of_Honour" title="Role of Honour">Role of Honour</a></i> (1984)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Lives_for_Ever" title="Nobody Lives for Ever">Nobody Lives for Ever</a></i> (1986)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Deals,_Mr._Bond" title="No Deals, Mr. Bond">No Deals, Mr. Bond</a></i> (1987)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpius_(novel)" title="Scorpius (novel)">Scorpius</a></i> (1988)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win,_Lose_or_Die" title="Win, Lose or Die">Win, Lose or Die</a></i> (1989)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokenclaw" title="Brokenclaw">Brokenclaw</a></i> (1990)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Barbarossa" title="The Man from Barbarossa">The Man from Barbarossa</a></i> (1991)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Is_Forever" title="Death Is Forever">Death Is Forever</a></i> (1992)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Send_Flowers" title="Never Send Flowers">Never Send Flowers</a></i> (1993)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaFire" title="SeaFire">SeaFire</a></i> (1994)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_(novel)" title="Cold (novel)">Cold</a></i> (1996)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Benson" title="Raymond Benson">Raymond Benson</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Minus_Ten" title="Zero Minus Ten">Zero Minus Ten</a></i> (1997)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Facts_of_Death" title="The Facts of Death">The Facts of Death</a></i> (1998)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Time_to_Kill" title="High Time to Kill">High Time to Kill</a></i> (1999)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoubleShot" title="DoubleShot">DoubleShot</a></i> (2000)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Dream_of_Dying" title="Never Dream of Dying">Never Dream of Dying</a></i> (2001)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Red_Tattoo" title="The Man with the Red Tattoo">The Man with the Red Tattoo</a></i> (2002)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Faulks" title="Sebastian Faulks">Sebastian Faulks</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_May_Care_(Faulks_novel)" title="Devil May Care (Faulks novel)">Devil May Care</a></i> (2008)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery_Deaver" title="Jeffery Deaver">Jeffery Deaver</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_Blanche_(novel)" title="Carte Blanche (novel)">Carte Blanche</a></i> (2011)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(writer)" title="William Boyd (writer)">William Boyd</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_(Boyd_novel)" title="Solo (Boyd novel)">Solo</a></i> (2013)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Horowitz" title="Anthony Horowitz">Anthony Horowitz</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_Mortis" title="Trigger Mortis">Trigger Mortis</a></i> (2015)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_and_a_Day_(novel)" title="Forever and a Day (novel)">Forever and a Day</a></i> (2018)</li>
<li><i>With a Mind to Kill</i> (2022)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novelizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Christopher_Wood" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wood_(writer)" title="Christopher Wood (writer)">Christopher Wood</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond,_The_Spy_Who_Loved_Me" title="James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me">James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me</a></i> (1977)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_and_Moonraker" title="James Bond and Moonraker">James Bond and Moonraker</a></i> (1979)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Spin-off<br />works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Mascott" class="mw-redirect" title="R. D. Mascott">R. D. Mascott</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_James_Bond_Junior_003%C2%BD" title="The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½">The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½</a></i> (1967)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pearson_(author)" title="John Pearson (author)">John Pearson</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond:_The_Authorized_Biography_of_007" title="James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007">James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007</a></i> (1973)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Bond" title="Young Bond"><i>Young Bond</i> series</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Higson" title="Charlie Higson">Charlie Higson</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilverFin" title="SilverFin">SilverFin</a></i> (2005)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Fever" title="Blood Fever">Blood Fever</a></i> (2006)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_or_Die" title="Double or Die">Double or Die</a></i> (2007)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Gold" title="Hurricane Gold">Hurricane Gold</a></i> (2007)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Royal_Command" title="By Royal Command">By Royal Command</a></i> (2008)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Cole_(writer)" title="Stephen Cole (writer)">Steve Cole</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_to_Kill_(novel)" title="Shoot to Kill (novel)">Shoot to Kill</a></i> (2014)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heads_You_Die" title="Heads You Die">Heads You Die</a></i> (2016)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.15em; padding:0.35em 1em; white-space:normal; text-align:left;"><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moneypenny_Diaries" title="The Moneypenny Diaries">The Moneypenny Diaries</a></i><br /><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Weinberg" title="Samantha Weinberg">Samantha Weinberg</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moneypenny_Diaries:_Guardian_Angel" title="The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel">Guardian Angel</a></i> (2005)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Servant:_The_Moneypenny_Diaries" title="Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries">Secret Servant</a></i> (2006)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moneypenny_Diaries:_Final_Fling" title="The Moneypenny Diaries: Final Fling">Final Fling</a></i> (2008)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unofficial<br />works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Over_(James_Bond)" title="Take Over (James Bond)">Take Over</a></i> (1970)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Zone" title="The Killing Zone">The Killing Zone</a></i> (1985)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unpublished<br />works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Fine_Ounce" title="Per Fine Ounce">Per Fine Ounce</a></i> (1966)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related<br />works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_O_Seven,_James_Bond,_A_Report" title="Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report">Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report</a></i> (1964)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_James_Bond_Dossier" title="The James Bond Dossier">The James Bond Dossier</a></i> (1965)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Bond" title="The Book of Bond">The Book of Bond</a></i> (1965)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_James_Bond_Bedside_Companion" title="The James Bond Bedside Companion">The James Bond Bedside Companion</a></i> (1984)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_for_Bond" title="The Battle for Bond">The Battle for Bond</a></i> (2007)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Society:_The_Young_Bond_Dossier" title="Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier">Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier</a></i> (2009)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_uncollected_short_stories" title="James Bond uncollected short stories">James Bond uncollected short stories</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_works_on_James_Bond" title="Bibliography of works on James Bond">Bibliography of works on James Bond</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(novel)" title="Casino Royale (novel)">Casino Royale</a></i> (1953)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_(novel)" title="Live and Let Die (novel)">Live and Let Die</a></i> (1954)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonraker_(novel)" title="Moonraker (novel)">Moonraker</a></i> (1955)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_Are_Forever_(novel)" title="Diamonds Are Forever (novel)">Diamonds Are Forever</a></i> (1956)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia,_with_Love_(novel)" title="From Russia, with Love (novel)">From Russia, with Love</a></i> (1957)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._No_(novel)" title="Dr. No (novel)">Dr. No</a></i> (1958)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_(novel)" title="Goldfinger (novel)">Goldfinger</a></i> (1959)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderball_(novel)" title="Thunderball (novel)">Thunderball</a></i> (1961)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Loved_Me_(novel)" title="The Spy Who Loved Me (novel)">The Spy Who Loved Me</a></i> (1962)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Her_Majesty%27s_Secret_Service_(novel)" title="On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel)">On Her Majesty's Secret Service</a></i> (1963)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(novel)" title="You Only Live Twice (novel)">You Only Live Twice</a></i> (1964)</li>
<li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Man with the Golden Gun</a></i> (1965)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Your_Eyes_Only_(short_story_collection)" title="For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)">For Your Eyes Only</a></i> (1960)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopussy_and_The_Living_Daylights" title="Octopussy and The Living Daylights">Octopussy and The Living Daylights</a></i> (1966)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang" title="Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang">Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang</a></i> (1964)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Smugglers" title="The Diamond Smugglers">The Diamond Smugglers</a></i> (1957)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrilling_Cities" title="Thrilling Cities">Thrilling Cities</a></i> (1963)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_memo" title="Trout memo">Trout memo</a> (attributed, 1939)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poppy_Is_Also_a_Flower" title="The Poppy Is Also a Flower">The Poppy Is Also a Flower</a></i> (story idea, 1966)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Portrayals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldeneye_(1989_film)" title="Goldeneye (1989 film)">Goldeneye</a></i> (1989 film)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spymaker:_The_Secret_Life_of_Ian_Fleming" title="Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming">Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming</a></i> (1990 film)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming:_Bondmaker" title="Ian Fleming: Bondmaker">Ian Fleming: Bondmaker</a></i> (2005 TV documentary)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming:_Where_Bond_Began" title="Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began">Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began</a></i> (2008 TV documentary)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Heroes_(film)" title="Age of Heroes (film)">Age of Heroes</a></i> (2011 film)</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleming:_The_Man_Who_Would_Be_Bond" title="Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond">Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond</a></i> (2014 mini-series)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Fleming" title="Ann Fleming">Ann Fleming</a> (wife)</li>
<li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_St._Croix_Fleming" title="Evelyn St. Croix Fleming">Evelyn St. Croix Fleming</a> (mother)</li>
<li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Fleming" title="Valentine Fleming">Valentine Fleming</a> (father)</li>
<li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fleming_(writer)" title="Peter Fleming (writer)">Peter Fleming</a> (brother)</li>
<li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaryllis_Fleming" title="Amaryllis Fleming">Amaryllis Fleming</a> (sister)</li>
<li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldeneye_(estate)" title="Goldeneye (estate)">Goldeneye</a> (home)</li>
<li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Goldeneye" title="Operation Goldeneye">Operation Goldeneye</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ruthless" title="Operation Ruthless">Operation Ruthless</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._30_Commando" title="No. 30 Commando">No. 30 Commando</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CWA_Ian_Fleming_Steel_Dagger" title="CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger">CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming_International_Airport" title="Ian Fleming International Airport">Ian Fleming International Airport</a></li></ul>
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