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Goldfinger

An epic 007 tale woven with gold

Ian Fleming,

First published in 1959

OVERVIEW

Auric Goldfinger is the richest man in England – though his wealth can’t be found in banks. He’s been hoarding vast stockpiles of his namesake metal, and it’s attracted the suspicion of 007’s superiors at MI6.
Sent to investigate, Bond uncovers an ingenious gold-smuggling scheme, as well as Goldfinger’s most daring caper yet: Operation Grand Slam, a gold heist so audacious it could bring down the world economy, and put the fate of the West in the hands of SMERSH.

To stop Goldfinger, Bond will have to survive a showdown with the sinister millionaire’s henchman, Oddjob, a tenacious karate master who can kill with one well-aimed toss of his razor-rimmed bowler hat.

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‘When author Anthony Burgess drew up his list of the 100 greatest novels ever written, Goldfinger was on it, deservedly so’

Anthony Horowitz

‘Nobody else does this sort of thing as well as Mr. Fleming. It offers more passages of sustained excitement than we are likely to get from any other thriller this year’

The Sunday Times

‘Hugely enjoyable and moves with breakneck speed. Then there’s the style: hard-edged and laconic. A superbly written, fast-paced and entertaining thriller’

The Daily Telegraph

‘Mr Fleming is the best thriller writer since Buchan’

London Evening Standard

‘Highly entertaining’

The New York Times

‘Maniacally readable’

The Observer

‘Fleming raised the standard of the popular story of espionage through good writing – a heightened journalistic style – and the creation of a government agent – James Bond, 007 – who is sufficiently complicated to compel our interest over a whole series of adventures. Fleming’s passion for plausibility, his own naval intelligence background, and a kind of sincere Manicheism, allied to journalistic efficiency in the management of his récit, make his work rather impressive.’

Anthony Burgess

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First edition cover of Goldfinger, designed by Richard Chopping and published by Jonathan Cape 1959.