Ian Fleming, “Goldfinger”

He cheats at cards. He cheats at golf. Now he wants to steal the gold of the United States.

It begins in the departure lounge at Miami Airport, with a drink, a favour and a game of canasta. A rich acquaintance has been losing a fortune to a fellow guest at his hotel, a short, sunburnt man with a head like a ball of copper and an obsession with gold. Bond agrees to find out how he cheats. It takes him one afternoon. It will take him much longer to understand who Auric Goldfinger really is.

Back in England, Bond meets him again, this time across a golf course, where the stakes are high and the rules are bent on both sides. Behind the millionaire’s respectable façade lies the greatest gold-smuggling operation in the world, a mute Korean bodyguard who can kill with a steel-rimmed bowler hat, and a plan so audacious that Goldfinger has given it the name of a bridge contract: Operation Grand Slam. Its target is the most heavily guarded treasure on earth, the gold reserve at Fort Knox.

Built in three parts, Happenstance, Coincidence and Enemy Action, Goldfinger is Ian Fleming at the height of his powers: a novel of cars and cards, of luxury and cruelty, of one of the most famous villains ever created and a hero who is never quite sure how much he enjoys the game.

Ian Fleming (1908–1964) was a journalist, a naval intelligence officer during the Second World War and the creator of the most famous secret agent in fiction.

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• Date of publication: Nov. 9 2026 
• Language: English
• Paperback: 262 pages
• ISBN-13: 979-1259919786
• Dimensions: 12.7 x 1.57 x 20.32 cm
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