Book description
On holiday in Victoria, British Columbia, Bond becomes intrigued Lee
Fu-Chu, a half-Blackfoot, half-Chinese philanthropist who is known as
"Brokenclaw" because of a deformed hand.
On his return to the UK Bond is tasked to investigate the kidnapping of
several scientists who have been working on a new submarine detection
system. It becomes clear that Brokenclaw is behind the kidnapping and
worse, he has a devastating plan to cause economic meltdown through the
collapse of the dollar.
Bond has no choice but to enter his lair ... After Kingsley Amis John
Gardner was the next writer to be asked by Glidrose (now IFPL) to write
further adventures of James Bond. He wrote, like Fleming, fourteen Bond
books, plus novelisations of the films GoldenEye
and Licence to Kill
, from 1981 to 1996.
Before becoming an author of fiction in the early 1960s John Gardner
was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer, a journalist
and, for a short time, a priest in the Church of England. In all,
Gardner had fifty-five novels to his credit - many of them best-sellers
- before he died in August 2007.
For more information about John Gardner and his non-Bond works, visit
his own website at www. john-gardner. com
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