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Official, original James Bond from a writer described by Len Deighton as a 'master storyteller'.
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En Route to retrieve his faithful housekeeper, May, from a European health clinic where she is recovering from an illness, Bond is warned by the British Secret Service that Tamil Rahani, the current leader of SPECTRE, now dying from wounds suffered during his last encounter with Bond, has put a price on Bond's head...
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Format:Hardcover
Gardner's only direct sequel (his final Bond book "Cold" was more of a reunion) is a rather surprising event. The notion of a bad guy getting away at the end of the previous book (Role of Honour (James Bond)) and putting a contract on Bond from his deathbed could have been tried out many times over the years, with a more noteworthy villain. What's astonishing is the high calibre of the delivery.
Story: 9/10. Of all independently-minded Gardner's entries in the Bond canon, this is the one that might have easily been a Fleming manuscript. It's to the former's credit that he offers up such a fan-pleaser, and does it so well. Bond is the resourceful, sensitive and thoughtful man of action at his best. On leave from his Service, he sets out on a personal mission to protect May and Moneypenny even though he knows it to be a trap.
Classic touches abound: scuba diving, car chases and Bond's love of travel and the simple things in life. His weapons again consist of the ASP, Bentley and instinct, plus a new baton and a Q Branch engineered belt. The settings of alpine Europe and the Florida Keys are fittingly Fleming-y; the prose is well crafted and immediate; and the host of enigmatic sexy girls, uncomprimising allies and would-be assassins are brilliantly drawn.
The only downside is the shorter length of the tale and the slight feel that it's concluding unfinished business, but these are minor quibbles of an otherwise excellent novel.
Story: 9/10. Of all independently-minded Gardner's entries in the Bond canon, this is the one that might have easily been a Fleming manuscript. It's to the former's credit that he offers up such a fan-pleaser, and does it so well. Bond is the resourceful, sensitive and thoughtful man of action at his best. On leave from his Service, he sets out on a personal mission to protect May and Moneypenny even though he knows it to be a trap.
Classic touches abound: scuba diving, car chases and Bond's love of travel and the simple things in life. His weapons again consist of the ASP, Bentley and instinct, plus a new baton and a Q Branch engineered belt. The settings of alpine Europe and the Florida Keys are fittingly Fleming-y; the prose is well crafted and immediate; and the host of enigmatic sexy girls, uncomprimising allies and would-be assassins are brilliantly drawn.
The only downside is the shorter length of the tale and the slight feel that it's concluding unfinished business, but these are minor quibbles of an otherwise excellent novel.
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