Goldfinger

More dodgy card players. This book was fun reading, being a canasta player at the time. Bond busts Goldfinger using a spotter to cheat, and makes him pay back what he owes to people. Not knowing who he is, when Bond is back with MI6 resources available, he checks him out, and finds out he is a gold smuggler, and even worse, is working for those SMERSH super villain types. Goldfinger has an audacious plan to bust into Fort... Read Full Review

Goldfinger has an effortless grace that is simply beyond most thriller writers. And this is the point; Fleming could really write. Yes, Goldfinger is just a potboiler fantasy, but it is suffused with beautiful writing; elegant simple sentences that contain real wit and character. It was Fleming's longest book and yet compared to a Clancy or a Ludlum it is little more than a short story. But in contrast to the turgid, plot... Read Full Review

This book was far ahead of its time, ignored for the most part after its initial publication, but selling in the millions after the film's release almost a decade later. Give Fleming credit for enormous creative powers in dreaming up a story that, with its castrating laser beams, deadly Korean bodyguards, obese villains and beautiful women, resonated deeply in the darkness of a movie theater. But Fleming's role in helping... Read Full Review

Someone has been smuggling tons of gold out of Britain and into secret vaults in Switzerland. But how? The Treasury calls on James Bond of the British Secret Service to investigate Auric Goldfinger, a former pawnbroker who travels with a chauffeur-and human weapon-named Oddjob. Tracking Goldfinger across two continents, Bond stumbles onto the crime of the century, as well as a luscious female crime boss, Ms. Pussy Galore... Read Full Review

This book was delicously good, being, in my opinion, the best Bond story ever!