Octopussy
Written by
Ian Fleming
Copyright 1965
First serialized in the Daily Express before becoming the lead story in the .
Bond plays a small role in a story about a British officer who, near the end of WWII, kills a Nazi officer moving a supply of gold and steals it for himself. Now, many years later, the true is coming out and Bond is sent to get him.
Note: the story was also published in two parts in Playboy, March-April 1966.