The author: Ian Lancaster Fleming ( – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, journalist, and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. The book: Beautiful First edition, first issue of the seventh of author Ian Fleming's fourteen original Bond books which were was adapted as the third film (1964) in James Bond 007 series. First Edition, first issue.īinding: Attractive and very good, near fine publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with 'skull' design stamped to front cover (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover.Ĭontent: Near fine content (bright, tight and clean - as shown). Perhaps it is just as well.Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. The real trouble with Bond, from a literary point of view, is that he is becoming more and more synthetic and zombie-ish. I doubt, though, whether he will get many letters from readers complaining of a sudden rise in his ethical standards. An occasional sentence – “He had never liked doing it and when he had to kill he did it as well as he knew how and forgot about it” – suggests he may be anxious to forestall charges of sadism that have been levelled at his clubman-cad secret service ace. But even with his forked tongue sticking right through his cheek, he remains maniacally readable for some of the time and continues to get away with much more than murder.īetween the wildest pubertal prep-school fantasies there are still excellent pieces of descriptive writing. Mr Fleming seems to be leaving realism further and further behind and developing only in the direction of an atomic, sophisticated Sapper. (It will be interesting to see whether the family newspaper the Daily Express, which is serialising Goldfinger, makes many changes in the text.) After enticing away his secretary, she succumbs on the last page to Bond’s overwhelmingly normal charm. They are bossed by a lesbian from Harlem named Miss Pussy Galore.
This is carried out by a task force of top gangsters, including a mob of women acrobats who disguise themselves as Red Cross nurses.
Bond outsmarts him easily enough in the opening rounds – still the best part of a Fleming – but is hijacked into taking part in his grand coup: a raid on the United States treasury bullion deposit at Fort Knox.
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