The story centres on the investigation by the British Secret Service operative James Bond into the gold-smuggling activities of Auric Goldfinger, who is also suspected by MI6 of being connected to SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation. Written in January and February 1958, it was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 March 1959. The secret agent is issued a battleship grey Aston Martin DB Mark III with lethal accessories, as well as a homing device similar to that seen in the movie however, Q is not in the book.Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. In terms of gadgets, this Fleming novel is closest to the Bond films technological underpinnings. Pussy Galore, the head of a criminal organization from New York City, called the Cement Mixers, as well as various other mobs including the Mafia and the Spangled Mob from Diamonds Are Forever, have been employed to aid Goldfinger in the planning and execution of "Operation Grand Slam". Bond, along with Felix Leiter, work to prevent the villain from executing his plan, which involves killing the soldiers of Fort Knox with a water-borne toxin and then using an atomic bomb to break into Fort Knox's impregnable vault.
DuPont's time.Īfter Bond returns to London he makes inquiries into the background of Goldfinger to find that he's the world's top gold smuggler, the richest man in England, and after further investigation Bond learns Goldfinger is a communist criminal working as the treasurer for the Soviet assassination agency SMERSH.īond learns that Goldfinger intends to finance SMERSH's schemes by stealing fifteen billion $USD worth of gold bullion from the American bullion depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky, an operation codenamed "Operation Grand Slam". It turns out that Goldfinger is indeed cheating and Bond forces him to admit his guilt and pay $50,000, $35,000 to balance out the cheating, $10,000 to buy Bond's silence, and $5,000 for wasting Mr. Du Pont suspects Goldfinger of cheating and offers to pay Bond to confirm his suspicions.
The novel begins in a similar fashion to Moonraker with an acquaintance of Bond ( Junius Du Pont from Casino Royale) meeting him in Miami and requesting that he observe a Canasta game between him and the eponymous villain of the novel, Auric Goldfinger.
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