Instead of having Oddjob kill him immediately, Goldfinger employs Bond as a secretary and confidant. He has realised Bond is extremely dangerous to his mission and has Oddjob torture him to unconsciousness. Bond Villain Stupidity: Goldfinger has Bond and Tilly captive in his home.He collected Spanish doubloons and commissioned a gold-plated typewriter from the Royal Typewriter Company, although he never actually used it he wrote with a gold-tipped ballpoint pen and included the theft or obtaining of gold in several of his stories. Author Appeal: Like the main villain, Fleming had a fascination with gold.Artistic License – Martial Arts: Karate is described to be 'a branch of judo' and Oddjob is described 'one of the three in the world who have achieved the Black Belt' in the discipline.'Letting your skin breathe' is just a figure of speech. While having one's skin completely painted would be really uncomfortable and could produce ill-effects such as poisoning from the paint itself or overheating from being unable to sweat, it couldn't, by itself, asphyxiate someone, as humans don't obtain oxygen through their skin. As anyone who has been scuba diving in a wetsuit knows, that's not how human respiration works. Artistic Licence – Biology: Jill Masterson suffocates to death after being completely covered in gold paint, leaving her skin unable to breathe.Antagonist Title: The titular Auric Goldfinger.Amazon Brigade: Pussy Galore's entire criminal organization was enlisted from female acrobats whom Galore then transitioned into cat-burglars.One of the continuation novels, Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz, takes place immediately after this one. The novel became the basis for the third James Bond film. After making it back home, Bond learns that Goldfinger is on SMERSH's payroll and is tasked with getting him arrested and his large hoard of gold confiscated. Purely by chance, he runs into an old acquaintance named Junius Du Pont, and through him is introduced to one Auric Goldfinger, the richest man in England. Returning to London following the rather unpleasant mission of destroying a drug-smuggling operation in Mexico, Bond finds himself stranded in Miami for a day thanks to a cancelled flight. The seventh James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, first published in 1959.

Goldfinger 1959 novel