History Literature / Goldfinger

Returning to London following a rather unpleasant mission of destroying a drug business in Mexico, Bond finds himself stuck in Miami for a day due to a cancelled flight. By change, he meets an old acquitance named Junius Du Pont, and through him he also meets Auric Goldfinger, the richest man in England. When he eventually returns back home, he learns that Goldfinger is on [[DirtyCommunists SMERSH]]'s payroll and is tasked to get him arrested and his gold confiscated.

* EvilRedhead: Goldfinger has red hair and BlueEyes, which leads to Bond (correctly) guessing he's of Baltic extraction.

* EvilRedhead: Goldfinger is described as having red hair and BlueEyes.

* AmazonBrigade: Every member in Pussy Galore's criminal organization is a former female cat burglar.

* AmazonBrigade: Every member in Pussy Galore's criminal organization is made from femal cat burglars.

* BusmansHoliday: Bond's little stopover in Miami turns into this once Du Pont hires him to spy on Goldfinger.

After a rather unpleasant mission of destroying a drug business in Mexico, Bond finds himself stuck in Miami for a day due to a cancelled flight. By change, he meets an old acquitance named Junius Du Pont, and through him he also meets Auric Goldfinger, the richest man in England. When he eventually returns back home, he learns that Goldfinger is on [[DirtyCommunists SMERSH]]'s payroll and is tasked to get him arrested and his gold confiscated.

After a rather unpleasant mission of destroying a drug business in Mexico, Bond finds himself stuck in Miami for a day due to a cancelled flight. By change, he meets an old acquitance named Junius Dupont, and through him he also meets Auric Goldfinger, the richest man in England. When he eventually returns back home, he learns that Goldfinger is on [[DirtyCommunists SMERSH]]'s payroll and is tasked to get him arrested and his gold confiscated.

After a rather unpleasant mission of destroying a drug business in Mexico, Bond finds himself stuck in United States for a day due to cancelled flight. By change, he meets an old acquitance named Junius Dupont, and through him he also meets Auric Goldfinger, the richest man in England. When he eventually returns back home, he learns that Goldfinger is on [[DirtyCommunists SMERSH]]'s payroll and is tasked to get him arrested and his gold confiscated.

* BusmansHoliday: The novel opens with Bond making a stopover in Miami while returning to London from an assignment in Mexico, when businessman Junius Du Pont hires him to spy on Goldfinger and discover how he's cheating at cards.

** Junius Dupont is in fact the guy who sat next to Bond during the big game in ''Literature/CasinoRoyale''.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Common cats for Oddjob, who acquired the taste for them during a time of famine in his homecountry Korea.

The seventh ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel by Creator/IanFleming, released in 1959.

* ScrewYourself: Bond tells Goldfinger to do this to himself when he refuses his second offer to let him and Tilly go.

* ItNeverGetsAnyEasier: The book opens with Bond with a glass of whiskey in hand, thinking about the Mexican killer whom he was [[KillingInSelfDefense forced to kill in self-defence]], and tries to rationalize about it by telling himself that he very likely to be a very bad person. His initial big plan for the evening is to drink himself so silly so that he can stop thinking about it and that his inevitable one night stand has to carry him bed.

* ItNeverGetsAnyEasier: The book opens with Bond with a glass of whiskey in hand, thinking about the Mexican killer whom he was forced to kill in self-defence, and tries to rationalize about it by telling himself that he very likely to be a very bad person. His initial big plan for the evening is to drink himself so silly so that he can stop thinking about it and that his inevitable one night stand has to carry him bed.

** Goldfinger is very short in height (four feet and eleven inches), has fiery red hair, very pale skin which he tries to hide with a tan, and has features that are described in narration like "he had been put together with bits of other people's bodies."
** Oddjob's rigorous training has left the skin on hands and legs extremely hardened (and former is described to be without nails), he has a cleft that makes his talking hard to understand to everyone except his master and lastly, all his teeth are blackened.

* IAmAHumanitarian: Goldfinger implies that Oddjob also like to eat people along with cats.

** Billy Ring, one of the criminal leaders who are part of Goldfinger's EvilPlan is missing his lower lip, and his right eye twitches in rhytm with his heartbeat.

* TakingOverTheTown: Goldfinger's plan to loot Fort Knox involves killing everyone in the town next to it.

* NapoleonComplex: When Bond takes note on Goldfinger's shot stature, he wonders if his moneyhoarding is a case of this, and continues the train of the thought with note that "smallest men cause the worst problems".

* HelpHelpTrappedInTitleFactory: Bond leaves a note on the underside of the toilet on a plane, telling of Goldfinger's plot and saying that delivery of the note to Felix Leiter of the CIA will result in a reward, hoping that the cleaning crew will find it; but doesn't know whether or not it got found & delivered, or thrown out, or found by the bad guys.

* KickTheDog: Goldfinger disposes the cat Bond used to get out of trouble by giving it to Oddjob, and telling him that he may eat it.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Tilly Masterton, twice:
** She interrupts Bond's mission to recon Goldfinger by trying to assassinate him, which leads both of them getting caught.
** During Operation Grand Slam, [[spoiler:she is killed by Oddjob, which turns Pussy Galore against Goldfinger, ruining his revenge against Bond in the finale]].

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