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The second John Gardner James Bond novel

John Gardner | Author,

First published in 1982

OVERVIEW

Blofeld is dead. And SPECTRE, the world’s greatest criminal organisation, disbanded. But then a series of murders and hijackings reveal the unimaginable: Blofeld’s Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion is back in business, and more dangerous than ever.

Armed with a pair of Sykes-Fairbairn commando daggers, a new Heckler & Koch VP70 handgun and a new partner in CIA agent Cedar Leiter, the beautiful daughter of his old friend Felix, 007 must halt SPECTRE’s plans to take control of America’s defences. And come face to face with the heir to Blofeld’s evil empire…

REVIEWS

‘An automobile road race described to nerveracking effect; the amusing relationship between the aging Bond and the youthful Cedar Leiter; a climax where Bond is drugged into imagining he is the woolly-headed Gen. James A. Banker, U.S.A. – all pure John Gardner at his Boysie Oakes best’

The New York Times

‘[The final scene set] in a mock-decrepit palace in the middle of the Louisiana swampland, is played out in maniacal fury, total illogic and superb idiocy to enchant the mind’

The Globe & Mail

‘A thrilling read’

The Catholic Herald

‘A must for James Bond fans’

Bradford Telegraph & Argus