Book description
James Bond is back in action, with the stunning Flicka von Grusse at
his side and his licence to kill renewed once more. His target is Sir
Maxwell Tarn: a businessman whose legitimate empire spans the globe,
whose wealth is uncountable, who also deals in illegal weapons on a
breathtaking scale.
But even Bond is unprepared for the speed of events, as a sting
operation in a Cambridge hotel leads rapidly to an assassination in
Spain, a fugitive in Israel and neo-Nazi plotters in Germany.
Bond finally catches up with Tarn in Puerto Rico where his prey becomes
his captor. Can he escape in time to stop Tarn? After Kingsley Amis,
John Gardner was the next writer to be asked by Glidrose (now IFPL) to
write further adventures of James Bond.
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 55 novels to his credit - many of them bestsellers - before
he died in August 2007.
