The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) who managed the Tate & Lyle plantations in West Indies after the war and the book's main villain, Francisco Scaramanga, was named after George Scaramanga, an Etonian contemporary of Fleming's: the pair are said to have fought at school. The effects of the two Eon Productions Bond films released prior to the writing of the novel ("Dr. No" and "From Russia with Love") were reflected in the novel through the increased number of gadgets used. One of these was the poison gun used in the scene of the attempted assassination of M. The idea was taken from the story of
The Scaramanga Six Champion. In a blog posting on 22 November 2010, Paul Morricone revealed that the band had completely reworked and re-recorded the material originally written for the shelved album "A Pound of Flesh" and would release it as a brand new album, "Cursed" (featuring a guest appearance from Thomas Truax). In October 2010, The Scaramanga Six released their first compilation album, "An Introduction to the Scaramanga Six". Sold via Bandcamp as a download-only release, the album was designed to be updateable as the band’s catalogue expanded (The first updated version was released in March 2014). In December 2010, The Scaramanga Six