Goldfinger

Goldfinger is the seventh novel and basis for the third Bond film (1964) in Ian Fleming`s James Bond series. It was first published by the British publishers Jonathan Cape on March 23, 1959. The novel opens with Bond ruminating on a assassin he killed in Mexico. In a similar fashion to Moonraker acquaintance of Bond, Junius Du Pont (from Casino Royale), meets him at a Miami Airport and requesting that he observe a two-handed Canasta game Between himself and the eponymous villain of the novel, Auric Goldfinger. Du Pont suspects Goldfinger of cheating, and offers to pay Bond to confirm his suspicions. Bond discovers that Goldfinger`s "secretary," Jill Masterton had been using binoculars to spy on Du Pont`s hand from her hotel room, and radio the cards to Goldfinger. Bond forces him to admit his guilt, pay back what he has unfairly won from Du Pont. Additionally, Bond tells him to reserve a train car for Bond and Masterton to New York, where she returns to Goldfinger`s employ. After Bond returns to London, he inquires into the background of Goldfinger, to find that he is the richest man in England, the world`s top gold smuggler, and treasurer for the...