Book description
James Bond has been partnered with an Israeli Mossad agent, Pete
Natkowitz, and assigned to work with the KGB to infiltrate a terrorist
group. The group, The Scales of Justice, are demanding the trial of a
suspected Nazi war criminal and each day of delay brings another death.
Posing as a TV crew, Bond and the other agents attempt to discover the
group's real motive. When Bond realises that the real aim is to supply
Iraq with nuclear weapons just before the United Nations-led coalition
invades he faces the most crucial mission of his life. 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.
