Goldfinger (James Bond 007) [Paperback]

Nobody does this sort of thing as well as Mr Fleming (Sunday Times )

Mr Fleming is the best thriller writer since Buchan (Evening Standard ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

A friendly game of two-handed canasta turns out to be thoroughly crooked and a beautiful girl ends up dead. In Bond's first encounter with Auric Goldfinger - the world's cleverest, cruellest criminal, useful lessons are learned.

Born in 1908 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, Fleming joined Reuters News Agency in 1931. During WW2 he was Personal Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty, rising from the rank of Lieutenant to Commander. He built his house, Goldeneye (where he wrote his first Bond novel), in Jamaica when he became Foreign Manager of Kemsley Newspapers. By the time of his death in 1964, he had sold over forty million books, and the cult of Bond was internationally established. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.