Goldfinger (novel) Goldfinger (novel) Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 March 1959. "Goldfinger" originally bore the title "The Richest Man in the World" and was written in January and February 1958. The story centres on the investigation by MI6 operative James Bond into the gold smuggling activities of Auric Goldfinger, who is also suspected by MI6 of being connected to SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation. As well as establishing the background to the smuggling operation, Bond uncovers a much larger plot, with Goldfinger planning to steal the
Goldfinger (film) Illustrated London News", thought "Goldfinger" "even tenser, louder, wittier, more ingenious and more impossible than "From Russia with Love"... [a] brilliant farrago", adding that Connery "is ineffable". Philip Oakes of "The Sunday Telegraph" said that the film was "dazzling in its technical ingenuity", while "Time" said that "this picture is a thriller exuberantly travestied." Bosley Crowther, writing in "The New York Times" was less enthusiastic about the film, saying that it was "tediously apparent" that Bond was becoming increasingly reliant on gadgets with less emphasis on "the lush temptations of voluptuous females", although he did admit that "Connery plays the