The Man With The Golden GunBond may have a license to kill, but Pistols Scaramanga has a talent for it. Hes a KGB trained assassin whos left a trail of dead British Secret Service agents in his wake. His weapon of choice? A gold plated Colt . 45. In the aftermath of his brainwashing by the Soviets, Bond is given one last chance to win back Ms trust: terminate Scaramanga before he strikes MI6 again. Traveling to Jamaica under an assumed name, Bond manages to infiltrate

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When Palestinian guerillas hijack a flight from New York to Frankfurt

He'll catch them up

which is why they operate so easily across ideological

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dumped unceremoniously when their shipmaster partakes of his cargo and almost wrecks the ship

'I loved this original and compelling tale of intrigue

It is more than a decade since humiliation at Dunkirk brought an end to Britain's war and the beginning of an uneasy peace with Hitler

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