Goldfinger Chapter Summary & Analysis - The Richest Man in History Summary

The Richest Man in History Summary

As dawn breaks, the train pulls into the station at Louisville, Kentucky. Bond watches as Goldfinger converses with the station superintendent, shaking his head gravely at the news of the disaster. Goldfinger says he will ride in the lead engine with the engineer and fireman with a detection device. He has all the other railroad employees leave the train. Goldfinger asks everyone else to put on masks to protect from infection. The train departs.

A few minutes later, the train comes to a sudden stop, then starts up again. Bond realizes that Goldfinger has killed the engineer and fireman and has taken the controls of the train himself. Jack Strap moves through the train, telling everyone that there is ten minutes to go, and to get prepared. Bond gets up to use the lavatory, followed by Oddjob. Inside the lavatory, Bond removes one of the knives from his shoe and...
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