From the opening bomb blast outside a steamy nighclub to a last-minute escape from the president's personal jet, James Bond faces off with a maniacal villain bent on destroying all the gold in Fort Knox - and obliterating the world economy.

Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Written in 1958, it was first published in 1959. The story centres on the investigation by the British Secret Service operative James Bond into the gold smuggling activities of Auric Goldfinger, who is also suspected by MI6 of being connected to SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation. As well as establishing the background to the smuggling operation, Bond uncovers a...

John "Goldfinger" Palmer was a multi-millionaire kingpin of the British underworld, who would go on to mastermind a criminal empire to dwarf any crook of his generation. Palmer hit the big time in 1983 with the Brink's-Mat gold bullion raid, netting £500 million in today's money for himself and Kenneth Noye – the biggest heist in UK criminal history at the time. While murders and lethal accidents befell at least 20 accomplices and police officers...

British Secret Service Agent James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the mysterious disappearance of another agent; Bond becomes involved with a beautiful Soviet Embassy cipher clerk in a plot to steal a Russian decoding machine, but he soon begins to question her true allegiance; James Bond must stop the maniacal Auric Goldfinger from stealing all the gold in Ft. Knox.