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 Arm (novel) at the time, and it did receive some critical reviews. In a 1956 article for "The New Yorker" entitled "The Man with the Golden Beef," Norman Podhoretz was critical of what he saw as the glorification of the underclass at the expense of respectable society. This sentiment was shared by Leslie Fiedler in an article on Algren's writings for "The Reporter" entitled "The Noble Savages of Skid Row." Like Algren's previous novel, "Never Come Morning", "The Man with the Golden Arm" drew fire from leaders of Chicago's Polish community, who criticized the portrayal of their community in the story. Royko