The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) assassination attempt, not only does M not press charges against Bond, he sends him out on further missions. According to Benson, the main adversary of the novel, Francisco Scaramanga, is more a henchman than a major adversary and "a second-rate, smalltime crook who happens to have gotten lucky with his shooting." Comentale, Watt and Willman note that Scaramanga had the same character profile as Herr von Hammerstein, the former Gestapo officer who is the chief of counterintelligence for the Cuban secret service in "For Your Eyes Only". There are two main themes in the novel. The first involves Scaramanga providing
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) the Land". "The Man with the Golden Gun" was premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on , with general release in the United Kingdom the same day. The film was made with an estimated budget of $7 million; despite initial good returns from the box office, "The Man with the Golden Gun" grossed a total of $97.6 million at the worldwide box office, with $21 million earned in the USA, making it the fourth lowest-grossing Bond film in the series. The promotion of the film had "one of the more anaemic advertising campaigns of the series" and there