Fleming's final 007 novel was The Man With The Golden Gun, drafted at Goldeneye in the first few months of 1964. It was his thirteenth Bond adventure, Cargill remembers, shaping up to be his last:
And despite the fact that the Bond novels and films were already becoming a global sensation, Fleming seemed to have felt he had not amounted to much at all:
In The Man With The Golden Gun, Fleming gives Bond a strong sense of nostalgia for Jamaica and memories of past assignments here. This book was clearly Fleming's ode to the island. Cargill recalls Fleming was recovering from his first heart attack, but that his lifestyle evoked the epitaph Mary Goodnight had once proposed for 007: "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
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Cargill on Fleming's 13th. (129k RealAudio download.)