Wikipedia article of the day for October 9, 2026
The Wikipedia article of the day for October 9, 2026 is The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) . The Man with the Golden Gun was written by Ian Fleming (pictured) and is the final novel in the James Bond series. It was published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author's death. The story centres on the fictional British Secret Service operative James Bond, who returns to Britain via the Soviet Union, where he had been brainwashed. After being de-programmed, Bond goes to the Caribbean to kill Francisco Scaramanga, the titular "Man with the Golden Gun". The first draft and part of the editing process were completed before Fleming's death; the level of detail from previous novels was missing, as this was often added by Fleming in the second draft. The novel was serialised in 1965 and a daily comic strip adaptation was published the following year. In 1974, the book was adapted as the ninth film in Eon Productions' James Bon...