The Man with the Golden Gun
Ian Fleming
Hardcover
(New American Library, Jan. 1, 1965)
'The Man with the Golden Gun' is the twelfth novel (and thirteenth book) of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. It was first published in the UK on April 1st 1965, eight months after the author's death. The story centres on the fictional British Secret Service operative James Bond, who had been posted missing, presumed dead, after his last mission in Japan. Bond returns to England via the Soviet Union, where he had been brainwashed to attempt to assassinate his superior, 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".