First edition Glidrose Productions Ltd, 1965
Italian version: Garzanti Editore, 1966
Translation: Mariapaola Ricci Dettore
" Bond passed the handkerchief to the ear and on the basis of the cup. It was almost intolerable. She had heard him say his death sentence, he had heard to state clearly the links between the KGB and Scaramanga and the Caribbean, as well as small minor issues such as sabotage of the bauxite industry, the massive smuggling of drugs into the U.S. and the organization of gambling for good measure. A stunning blow to the Secret Service! And the opportunity presented itself to him! Would be experienced enough to be able to grasp? God if he could drink! "
Exhausted physically tired from a stroke and the popularity of the character he created, which forces him to replicate the formula successful book after book, Fleming ponders a long way out to free himself from the hero admired throughout the world. Unfortunately for him a second heart attack was fatal 12 August 1964. The Man with the Golden Gun , the last James Bond novel, released in 1965, without a final review.
The story this time is simple: at the end of You Only Live Twice Bond was taken prisoner by the KGB who has undergone a brainwashed and has "reconditioned", conveying his qualities as a secret agent in the service of 'Soviet Union. Former
007 then returns to London with a specific task: to eliminate M. The British secret services were convinced that their agent is dead, but agreed to meet James Bond, after some preliminary talks, he is taken in the presence of his superior. Here, the attempt fails to kill M, Bond is transferred to a private clinic on the outskirts of London and underwent 12 sessions of electric shock with which heals and returns to service.
His new mission is apparently committed suicide. M is anxious to field test the conditions of his agent found and asked him to find the dreaded killer in the service of the KGB, Paco Francisco Scaramanga, a tipaccio with a past as a circus acrobat, which eliminates his targets with a caliber Colt 45 gold-plated, long-barreled. Special sign of recognition of the killer is a third nipple synonymous with sexuality.
Posted in Jamaica, Bond is helped by his former secretary, Mary Goodnight, a comely blonde destined to fall into his arms and a revived Felix Leiter, the CIA agent who had left in a hospital bed, torn apart by a shark in Live and Let Die .
Under the pseudonym of Mark Hazard he tracks down Scaramanga easily in a brothel in Savannah La Mar. The Shootist (inexplicably) hires Bond in his employment with the task of a bodyguard for a weekend. Scaramanga has invited its five-star hotel, still incomplete, its investors, wealthy businessmen, unwilling to release other soldoni to complete the hotel. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe killer is to convince them of the bargain by offering a spectacular weekend, made of alcohol, women and gambling.
Bond soon discovers that the alleged millionaires are nothing more than some of the most ruthless boss of all America, dedicated to drug trafficking, sabotage of sugar cane and recycling of bauxite. Among them is also that Mr. Hendriks, a Soviet spy, who Scaramanga tells the real identity of his bodyguard.
The murderess decides to kill Bond, and a final high voltage, a bloody shootout on a train ride on the local vegetation in Jamaica, we are witnessing the thrilling final showdown between Bond and Scaramanga in the heart of the bush Caribbean.
With a linear narrative structure, the novel shows some cracks and narrative situations not credible. In the first, the most important we have already said. Bond Scaramanga chance encounter in a local crime hotspot. Between the two immediately There's bad blood, yet the killer decides to hire him as his assistant without any reference. For one of the smartest killers on the planet is not a smart move. What about the game of cat and mouse for about half done with Bond novel Scaramanga after discovering the identity? For what purpose to keep alive a British agent with a resume so dangerous, for the sake of sadism? Irresistible then the sequence in which 007 investors understand who they are eavesdropping on their conversations in the hotel rushed through the door with a glass crystal! An action worthy of the hand of the young marmots. The novel takes tone at the end. The train ride and the bloody duel between Bond and Scaramanga is indeed worthy of the best pages of British writer.
The epilogue at the same time and then moving and sulfur as the best pages fleminghiane. Leiter, his old friend to many adventures, he left the Bond, still injured in a hospital bed. The British spy is moved but expresses her affection with an oath to the American revolt. He did not enjoy that rehabilitation remains with the beautiful Mary Goodnight who offers his apartment and its complete hospitality: "Of all the fatal that a woman can draw graffiti on a wall, these are the most insidious, the most lethal ." says the writer, reiterating his dislike for stable relationships.
short leave, his character in Fleming's novel has a light but shadows. Fortunately, a year later released for Glidrose Octopussy and The Living Daylights , a collection of short stories, including at least a couple of great level.
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