Editing Goldfinger (novel) (section)

==Plot==
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'''Happenstance'''<br>
While changing planes in Miami after closing down a Mexican heroin-smuggling operation, the British [[MI6|Secret Service]] operative James Bond meets Junius Du Pont, a rich American businessman whom Bond had briefly met and gambled with in ''[[Casino Royale (novel)|Casino Royale]]''. Du Pont asks Bond to watch [[Auric Goldfinger]], with whom Du Pont is playing [[canasta]], to discover if he is cheating. Bond soon realises that Goldfinger is using his assistant, Jill Masterton, to spy on Du Pont's cards. Bond blackmails Goldfinger into admitting his guilt and paying back Du Pont's lost money; Bond also has a brief affair with Masterton. Back in London, Bond's superior, [[M (James Bond)|M]], tasks him with determining how Goldfinger is smuggling gold out of Britain; M also suspects Goldfinger of being connected to [[SMERSH]] and financing their western networks with his gold. Bond visits the [[Bank of England]] for a briefing on the methods of gold smuggling.

'''Coincidence'''<br>
Bond contrives to meet and play a round of golf with Goldfinger; Goldfinger attempts to win the golf match by cheating, but Bond turns the tables on him, beating him in the process. He is subsequently invited to Goldfinger's mansion near [[Reculver]] where he narrowly escapes being caught [[Closed-circuit television|on camera]] looking through the house. Goldfinger introduces Bond to his [[handyman|factotum]], a Korean named [[Oddjob]].

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Issued by MI6 with an [[Aston Martin DB Mark III]], Bond trails Goldfinger in his vintage [[Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost]] (adapted with armour plating and [[bulletproof glass]]), driven by Oddjob. Both travel by [[air ferry|air ferries]] to Switzerland. Bond manages to trace Goldfinger to a warehouse in Geneva, where he finds that the armour of the Rolls-Royce is actually white-gold, cast into panels at his Kent refinery. When the car reaches the factory in Switzerland (Enterprises Auric AG), Goldfinger recasts the gold from the armour panels into aircraft seats and fits the seats to the aeroplanes of Mecca Charter Airline, in which he holds a large stake. The gold is finally sold in India at a large profit. Bond foils an assassination attempt on Goldfinger by Jill Masterton's sister, Tilly, to avenge Jill's death at Goldfinger's hands: he had painted her body with gold paint, which killed her. Bond and Tilly attempt to escape when the alarm is raised, but are captured.

'''Enemy action'''<br>
Bond is tortured by Oddjob when he refuses to confess his role in trailing Goldfinger. In a desperate attempt to escape being cut in two by a [[circular saw]], Bond offers to work for Goldfinger, a ruse that Goldfinger initially refuses but then accepts. Bond and Tilly are subsequently taken to Goldfinger's operational headquarters in a warehouse in New York City. They are put to work as secretaries for a meeting between Goldfinger and several gangsters (including the Spangled Mob and the Mafia), who have been recruited to assist in "Operation Grand Slam"—stealing gold from the [[United States Bullion Depository]] at [[Fort Knox]]. One of the gang leaders, Helmut Springer, refuses to join the operation and is killed by Oddjob. Bond learns that the operation includes killing the inhabitants of Fort Knox by introducing poison into the water supply. He manages to conceal a message in the toilet of Goldfinger's private plane, where he hopes it will be found and sent to [[Pinkerton National Detective Agency|Pinkertons]], where his friend and ex-counterpart [[Felix Leiter]] now works.

Operation Grand Slam commences, and it transpires that Leiter has found and acted on Bond's message. A battle commences, but Goldfinger escapes. Tilly, a lesbian, hopes that one of the gang leaders, [[Pussy Galore]] (the leader of a gang of lesbian burglars), will protect her, but she (Tilly) is killed by Oddjob. Goldfinger, Oddjob and the Mafia bosses all escape in the melee. Bond is drugged before his flight back to England and wakes to find he has been captured by Goldfinger, who has murdered the crime bosses (except Galore), drugged a [[BOAC]] flightcrew and hijacked their jetliner. Bond manages to break a window, causing a [[Uncontrolled decompression|depressurisation]] that blows Oddjob out of the plane; he then fights and strangles Goldfinger. At gunpoint, he forces the crew to [[Water landing|ditch]] in the sea near the Canadian coast, where they are rescued by a nearby [[Weather ship|weathership]].