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 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