Ian Fleming — The Man with the Golden Gun

London, The Book Club, 1965. Cloth. A very smart Book Club edition of the twelfth and final novel in Fleming's James Bond series. Book Club edition. The twelfth and final novel in the James Bond series. The story centres on the fictional British Secret Service operative James Bond, who had been posted missing, presumed dead, after his last mission in Japan. Bond returns to Britain via the Soviet Union, where he had been brainwashed to attempt to assassinate his superior, M. Written by Ian Lancaster Fleming, a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming, who worked for Britain's Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, drew from his wartime service and his career as a journalist for much of the background, detail, and depth of his James Bond novels. This volume has been bound with a common binding error of the text block being bound in upside down to the cover. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and sunning to the extremities. The odd small spot, predominantly to the fly leaves. Internally, firmly bound with a common binding error of the text block being bound in upside down to the cover. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting, predominantly to the fore-edge. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .