O Homem do Revólver de Ouro (Coleção Catavento #105) - The Man with the Golden Gun

Ian Fleming

Globo, (RS)

1966

178 páginas

5h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780142003282

Português Brasileiro

Francisco Scaramanga, agente do KGB e impiedoso assassino profissional a sôldo das forças internacionais de subversão e beligerância (interpretado no Cinema pelo ator Christopher Lee, primo / "real life step-cousin" de Ian Fleming /(from wikipedia). É o homem mais temido e visado pelo Serviço Secreto de Sua Majestade na Zona do Caribe. Compete ao Agente 007 exterminá-lo. Dado como morto há mais de um ano — depois da sua explosiva atuação no Japão — James Bond reaparece em Londres, inesperadamente, com uma nova missão: matar M. Prisioneiro do KGB soviético, fôra submetido a uma lavagem cerebral para ser empregado como arma contra o seu próprio chefe. Mas a segurança do Serviço Secreto Britânico frustra estes traiçoeiros designios do Inimigo. Capturado e curado, sua única oportunidade de recuperar a confiança e o auto-respeito e continuar sendo um agente secreto de alto nível é superar Scaramanga — pondo fim à vida d'O Homem com a Pistola de Ouro!

The Man with the Golden Gun is the twelfth novel (and thirteenth book) of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author's death. The novel was not as detailed or polished as the others in the series, leading to poor but polite reviews. Despite that, the book was a best-seller.

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 England via the Soviet Union, where he had been brainwashed to attempt to assassinate his superior, M. After being "cured" by the MI6 doctors, Bond is sent to the Caribbean to find and kill Francisco Scaramanga, the titular "Man with the Golden Gun".

The first draft and part of the editing process was completed before Fleming's death and the manuscript had passed through the hands of his copy editor, William Plomer, but it was not as polished as other Bond stories. Much of the detail contained in the previous novels was missing, as this was often added by Fleming in the second draft. Publishers Jonathan Cape passed the manuscript to Kingsley Amis for his thoughts and advice on the story, although his suggestions were not subsequently used.

The novel was serialised in 1965, firstly in the Daily Express and then in Playboy; in 1966 a daily comic strip adaptation was also published in the Daily Express. In 1974 the book was loosely adapted as the ninth film in the Eon Productions James Bond series, with Roger Moore playing James Bond and Ian Fleming's real life step-cousin, Christopher Lee, as Francisco Scaramanga.