The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) 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
The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) that "perhaps Ian Fleming was very tired when he wrote it. Perhaps ... he left it unrevised. The fact remains that this posthumous Bond is a sadly sub-standard job." His praise for the novel was muted, admitting "it isn't of course by any means totally unreadable but it's depressingly far from the best Bond." Writing in "The Observer"s sister paper, "The Guardian", Christopher Wordsworth noted that "since "Goldfinger" 007 has been toiling hopelessly in the wake of the "Zeitgeist"." Prior to this novel, Wordsworth writes, "the distance between "Live and let Die", Ian Fleming's second and best, and "You Only