Book description
When M receives word that a terrorist organisation known is planning to
infiltrate and destroy a top-secret British Royal Navy aircraft
carrier-based summit of world leaders, James Bond is returned to active
duty in the Royal Navy. Promoted from Commander to Captain, Bond is
expected to infiltrate the aircraft carrier HMS
Invincible
and identify potential sleeper agents.
As he struggles to complete his mission, a massive war game is being
carried out between the American, British, and Soviet Navies. And when
Bond gets caught up in a murder investigation the safety of the most
powerful leaders on the planet hangs in the balance ... 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.
