the man with the golden gun book first edition

His own travels, interests and wartime experience gave authority to everything he wrote. Following this initial success, he published a Bond title every year until his death. The first print run sold out within a month. His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and introduced James Bond, Special Agent 007, to the world. On the outbreak of the Second World War he was appointed assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiral Godfrey, where he played a key part in British and Allied espionage operations.Īfter the war he joined Kemsley Newspapers as Foreign Manager of the Sunday Times, running a network of correspondents who were intimately involved in the Cold War. His first job was with Reuters news agency, followed by a brief spell as a stockbroker. In 1974 the book was loosely adapted as the ninth film in the Eon Productions James Bond series, with Roger Moore playing Bond and Fleming’s cousin, Christopher Lee, as Scaramanga.Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London on and was educated at Eton College before spending a formative period studying languages in Europe. 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. Publishers Jonathan Cape passed the manuscript to Kingsley Amis for his thoughts and advice on the story, although his suggestions were not subsequently used. Much of the detail contained in the previous novels was missing, as this was often added by Fleming in the second draft. 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.

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”. Bond returns to England via the Soviet Union, where he had been brainwashed to attempt to assassinate his superior, M. 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. Despite that, the book was a best-seller.

The novel was not as detailed or polished as the others in the series, leading to poor but polite reviews. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author’s death. The Man with the Golden Gun is the twelfth novel (and thirteenth book) of Ian Fleming’s James Bond series.

The man with the golden gun book first edition