Francisco Scaramanga cannot whistle has homosexual tendencies. As with Blofeld, the name is believed to have come from a schoolmate of Fleming's, George Ambrosios (Ambrose) Scaramanga. In the film "The Man with the Golden Gun", Francisco is a high-priced assassin, supposedly the best in the world, charging one million dollars per kill. He is best known for being "The man with the golden gun", for using only bullets made of gold in a (fictional) 4.2 mm cartridge with a disassemblable golden handgun made of a gold cigarette case, gold cigarette lighter, gold fountain pen and gold cufflink as the gun's trigger. All
The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) against it by Plomer, who considered the novel viable for publication. Five months after returning from Jamaica, on the morning of 12 August 1964, Fleming died of a heart attack. His obituary in "The Times" noted that he "had completed and was revising a new novel, "The Man with the Golden Gun"." Despite William Plomer's original thought about the state of the manuscript, editors Jonathan Cape were concerned enough about the story to pass the manuscript to Kingsley Amis to read on holiday, paying him £35/15 shillings for his thoughts and advice, although Amis' subsequent suggestions were not used by