The Man With the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming

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. In the process of all this, both Bond and Leiter are badly wounded, though they survive. Leiter goes one step further and liquidates Scaramanga's gangster allies. 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.īond 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. 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 destabilization of Western interests in the Caribbean sugar industry, running drugs into America, smuggling women from Mexico into America and launching casinos in Jamaica. 45 calibre revolver.īond is assigned to kill him, after having killed several SIS agents. M assigns him to Jamaica, to locate and gain the confidence of Francisco (Paco) 'Pistols' Scaramanga, an assassin, known as The Man with the Golden Gun, because of his deadly golden. Now deprogrammed, Bond is eager to prove himself worthy of again being a 00 agent. While there, he was brainwashed and programmed to kill M upon returning to England. After living as a Japanese fisherman for several months, Bond headed north, into the Soviet Union, to learn his true identity. Meanwhile, the British Secret Service has learned that after attacking Blofeld's castle in Japan (chronicled in You Only Live Twice), Bond suffered a head injury and subsequent amnesia.

After much scrutinizing and interrogation, the man's identity is confirmed, but during his debriefing interview with M, Bond tries to kill him with a cyanide pistol. Then, out of the blue, a man claiming to be Bond appears in London and demands to see M.

It has been nearly a year since James Bond disappeared, and was presumed dead during his mission to Japan.

The Man With the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming