Auric Goldfinger: cruel, clever, frustratingly careful, is a cheat at Canasta and a crook on a massive scale in everyday life. The sort of man James Bond hates. So it's fortunate that Bond is the man charged by both the Bank of England and MI5 to discover what this, the richest man in the country intends to do with his ill-gotten gains.
Ian Lancaster Fleming Books
Devil May Care
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Set in the Cold War, Bond crosses two continents after he is assigned to shadow a power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate with an interest in opiate deriviates.