"The Man with the Golden Gun" is the thirteenth novel written by Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was published posthumously in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape, in 1965.
A year after James Bond's final confrontation with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, while on a mission in Japan, he is declared missing and presumed dead. Then, a man claiming to be Bond appears in London and demands to meet M. After much scrutinising and interrogation, the man's identity is confirmed, but during his debriefing interview with M, Bond tries to kill him with a cyanide pistol, but the attempt fails.