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The Man from Barbarossa

John Gardner's eleventh James Bond adventure

John Gardner | Author,

First published in 1991

OVERVIEW

Nobody could foresee that the abduction of an old man in New Jersey will be the prelude to a drama played out on the world’s stage. Or that it is the first step in a plot so ingenious and skilful that the stability of nations will rock wildly to its adroit tune. Or that around the world a name now indelibly associated with the horror of genocide – Babi Yar – will once again be headline news. Or that soon an unlikely alliance will take place between the KGB, the Israeli Mossad, and the French and British Secret Intelligence Services. And all because of an organisation, hitherto unknown, the Scales of Justice.

For James Bond it means a twist that no-one could have invented in their wildest dreams before the era of glasnost and perestroika. For this new assignment Bond will not simply work with his former arch-enemy, the KGB, he will be operating under their control! When he hears that he’s being transferred to Moscow, he can hear warning bells a mile off.

Find James Bond as ready and able as ever in the battle for good against evil, however chilling the new realities of the 1990s. It’s his most lethal mission yet.

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