Book description
Bond is back. With a vengeance.
M has summoned agent 007 to London. It's the swinging Sixties and a
flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr
Julius Gorner is identified as the source and James Bond is dispatched
to investigate.
The trail takes Bond to Paris and then Persia - where the beautiful
and enigmatic twins Scarlett and Poppy lead him to Gorner's secret
desert headquarters. Here, Bond uncovers Gorner's cold-blooded plans
for world domination.
Only by playing Gorner's twisted game can Bond stop him . . .
Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time
writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. His French trilogy -
The
Girl at the Lion d'Or
,
Birdsong
and
Charlotte Gray
(1989-1997) - established him in the front rank of British novelists. UK
sales of Birdsong exceed 2,500,000 copies, and for this novel he was
named "Author of the Year" by the British Book Awards in 1995.
It is regularly voted one of the nation's favourite books.
Charlotte Gray
has also sold over a million copies and was filmed with Cate Blanchett
in the main part.
