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The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other things with this same title, see The Man with the Golden Gun. The Man with the Golden Gun

First edition cover - published by Jonathan Cape. Author	Ian Fleming

Cover Artist	Richard Chopping (Jonathan Cape ed.) Country	United Kingdom Language	English

Series	James Bond

Genre(s)	Spy novel

Publisher	Glidrose Productions

Released	1 April 1965 Media Type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)

ISBN	NA Preceded by	You Only Live Twice

Followed by	Octopussy and The Living Daylights

The Man with the Golden Gun is the thirteenth and final James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming and posthumously published in the United Kingdom and the United States by Glidrose Productions, in 1965. A year later, it was followed by the short story collection, Octopussy and The Living Daylights. As the only novel posthumously published by Fleming, and, its stylistic difference from the previous novels, The Man with the Golden Gun is much debated amongst critics, afficionados, and researchers as to whether or not Ian Fleming solely wrote the novel. It was adapted, in 1974, as the ninth film in the EON Productions James Bond series; the second starring Roger Moore as Commander James Bond, British Secret Service agent 007. Contents [hide] •	1 Plot summary •	2 Characters in The Man with the Golden Gun •	3 Trivia •	4 The controversy over the novel •	5 Comic strip adaptation •	6 External links

[edit] Plot summary Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. It has been nearly a year since James Bond disappeared, and was presumed dead during his mission to Japan. Then, a man claiming to be Bond appears in London and demands to see M. After much scrutinising and interrogation, the man's identity is confirmed, but during his debriefing interview with M, Bond tries to kill him with a cyanide pistol; the attempt fails. Meanwhile, the British Secret Service have learned that after attacking Blofeld's castle in Japan (chronicled in You Only Live Twice), Bond suffered a head injury and subsequent amnesia. After living as a Japanese fisherman for several months, Bond headed north, into the Soviet Union, to learn his true identity. While there, he was brainwashed and programmed to kill M on returning to England. Now deprogrammed, Bond is eager to prove himself worthy of again being a 00 agent. M assigns him to Jamaica, to locate and gain the confidence of one Francisco (Paco) "Pistols" Scaramanga, an assassin, known as "the man with the golden gun", because of his golden .45 calibre revolver; Bond is assigned to kill him, because he killed several SIS agents. In mid-assignment, Bond, who has managed to become Scaramanga's temporary personal assistant under the name of Mark Hazard, learns that Scaramanga is involved with a syndicate of American gangsters and the KGB, who are working several schemes, including the destabilisation of Western interests in the Caribbean's sugar industry, running drugs into America, smuggling women from Mexico into America and launching casinos in Jamaica. Initially unaware of Bond's presence in Jamaica, Felix Leiter has also been recalled to duty by the CIA and assigned to Scaramanga's hotel staff. Bond kills Scaramanga during a train journey, with the assistance of Felix Leiter and his former secretary, Mary Goodnight, now assigned to the Kingston station of the Service. Leiter goes one step further and liquidates Scaramanga's gangster allies. In the process of all this, both Bond and Leiter are badly wounded, but they survive. Bond is offered a knighthood (KCMG — Bond already has CMG) for services past and present to Britain — but he turns it down because of his love for anonymity. [edit] Characters in The Man with the Golden Gun 2004 Penguin Books paperback edition •	James Bond - British Secret Service agent, Commander James Bond 007, is the protagonist of the story. He returns from Vladivostock, brainwashed, and attempts to kill M. After failing and going through deprogramming, Bond is given one last assignment to prove his worth to the Secret Service; to track down one Francisco 'Pistols' Scaramanga, a freelance assassin. •	M - M is the codename of Bond's boss in the Secret Service. It is discovered in this novel that his real name is Sir Miles Messervy. After a failed assassination by a brainwashed James Bond, M sends Bond on a mission to prove his worth to the Secret Service. He is frequently helped by his secretary Miss Moneypenny and his Chief of Staff Bill Tanner. •	Francisco Scaramanga - A freelance assassin typically in the employ of the KGB, he is known as "the man with the golden gun" because he uses a gold-plated .45 calibre revolver. Because Scaramanga has killed numerous secret service agents from the British Secret Service and CIA, James Bond is sent to track and kill him. •	Felix Leiter - Previously in Thunderball, Leiter is still employed by the CIA. He is sent to spy on Scaramanga by posing as the manager of the Thunderbird Hotel in the Caribbean. •	Mary Goodnight - Previously James Bond's personal secretary in On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice, she was reassigned to Kingston when Bond went missing and was presumed dead at the end of You Only Live Twice. When Bond returns and is sent to the Caribbean to find Francisco Scaramanga, he enlists her help. [edit] Trivia •	The novel makes reference to events in the short story "The Property of a Lady," which had been published in a special Sotheby's Auction House publication in 1963 and in Playboy in 1964. For the general public, the story was not published in a Fleming book until the 1967 Pan Books paperback edition of Octopussy and The Living Daylights. •	Being the last James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, this is actually the first time M's full name, Admiral Sir Miles Messervy, is ever said. In previous novels, any reference to M's name had been censored by 'dashes'. [edit] The controversy over the novel 1966 Pan Books paperback edition. The Man with the Golden Gun novel has been a controversial, speculative subject since its publication in 1965, the year after Ian Fleming died. Supposedly, since Fleming died before completing the final draft manuscript, the novel was edited and finished by other writers before its publication. Kingsley Amis often has received credit for either completing or editing The Man with the Golden Gun, but that has been denied by several sources, including Andrew Lycett in the biography Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond, claiming Fleming had finished it and that it was subsequently read and edited only by William Plomer, Fleming's editor. John Cork, co-author of James Bond: The Legacy (and producer of the documentaries included to the Special Edition DVDs of the James Bond films) also claims that Fleming had finished it and that he, Cork, saw the original, un-edited typescript [1] — although he admits Amis had read it and had offered ideas that went unimplemented. The introduction to the Titan Books reprint edition of the Colonel Sun comic strip explicitly describes the Golden Gun manuscript as unfinished at Fleming's death, crediting Plomer with polishing it to publication standard; also, the book supports Cork's account that Amis's involvement was restricted to unimplemented manuscript suggestions. That Fleming reportedly was writing another James Bond novel or short story at the time of his death (excerpts from which can be found in John Pearson's The Life of Ian Fleming and the 007forever.com website) adds credence to the idea that Fleming felt the novel was finished, however, these fragments may pre-date his writing of The Man with the Golden Gun. In the New Statesman, after the novel's release, Amis called it "a sadly empty tale, empty of the interests and effects that for better or worse, Ian Fleming made his own." Perhaps, due to the rumours of ghostwriters and revisions, some sources have suggested that the novel was some sort of "lost" manuscript; this is untrue. [edit] Comic strip adaptation Main article: James Bond comic strips Fleming's original novel was adapted as a daily comic strip which was published in the British Daily Express newspaper and syndicated around the world. The adaptation ran from January 10 to September 10, 1966. The adaptation was written by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Yaroslav Horak, both of whom were starting long tenures with the comic strip. The strip was reprinted by Titan Books in the early 1990s and again in 2004 as part of The Man with the Golden Gun anthology that also includes The Living Daylights. [edit] External links •	Ian Fleming bibliography of first editions v • d • e The James Bond books[hide] Ian Fleming Casino Royale (1953) • Live and Let Die (1954) • Moonraker (1955) • Diamonds Are Forever (1956) • From Russia with Love (1957) • Dr. No (1958) • Goldfinger (1959) • For Your Eyes Only (1960) • Thunderball (1961) • The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) • On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) • You Only Live Twice (1964) • The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) • Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966) R.D. Mascott 003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior (1967) Kingsley Amis (writing as Robert Markham) Colonel Sun (1968) John Pearson James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007 (1973) Christopher Wood (novelisations) James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) • James Bond and Moonraker (1979) John Gardner Licence Renewed (1981) • For Special Services (1982) • Icebreaker (1983) • Role of Honour (1984) • Nobody Lives For Ever (1986) • No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) • Scorpius (1988) • Win, Lose or Die (1989) • Licence to Kill (1989) • Brokenclaw (1990) • The Man from Barbarossa (1991) • Death is Forever (1992) • Never Send Flowers (1993) • SeaFire (1994) • GoldenEye (1995) • COLD (a.k.a. Cold Fall) (1996) Raymond Benson "Blast From the Past" (1997) • Zero Minus Ten (1997) • Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) • The Facts of Death (1998) • "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999) • High Time to Kill (1999) • The World is Not Enough (1999) • "Live at Five" (1999) • Doubleshot (2000) • Never Dream of Dying (2001) • The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002) • Die Another Day (2002) Charlie Higson (Young Bond series) SilverFin (2005) • Blood Fever (2006) • Double or Die (2007) • Young Bond Book 4 (2008) • Young Bond Book 5 (2009) Samantha Weinberg (writing as Kate Westbrook) (The Moneypenny Diaries series) The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel (2005) • "For Your Eyes Only, James" (2006) • Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries (2006) • "Moneypenny's First Date With Bond" (2006) • The Moneypenny Diaries Book 3 (TBA) (2007) Unofficial/Unpublished Per Fine Ounce (1966) • The Killing Zone (1985) • "The Heart of Erzulie" (2001-02) Related works The James Bond Dossier (1965) The Book of Bond (1965) The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_%28novel%29" Categories: 1965 novels | James Bond books | British novels Views •	Article •	Discussion •	Edit this page •	History Personal tools •	Sign in / create account

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