For Special Services (James Bond Series)

by John Gardner

Overview

Blofeld is dead. And SPECTRE, the world's greatest criminal organisation, disbanded. But then a series of murders and hijackings reveal the unimaginable: someone has revitalised SPECTRE – and it is now more dangerous than ever. Armed with the latest high-tech weapons and gadgets – and a new partner, CIA agent Cedar Leiter – James Bond undertakes his most perilous mission yet. He must halt SPECTRE's plans to take control of America's defences. And come face to face with the heir to Blofeld's evil empire.
For Special Services is the second heart-stopping instalment of John Gardner's Bond series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781906772468
Publisher:	Ian Fleming Publications
Publication date:	06/01/2013
Series:	James Bond Series
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	317
Sales rank:	479,692
File size:	367 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

After Colonel Sun (1968) by Kingsley Amis, John Gardner was the next writer to be asked 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. 'Probably the biggest mistake I ever made,' he says. 'I confused the desire to please my father with a vocation which I soon found I did not have.' In all, Gardner had fifty-five novels to his credit - many of them bestsellers. John Gardner died in 2007.For more information about John Gardner and his non-Bond works, visit his website.

Editorial Reviews

...The reader will do better to head for anything by Mr. Gardner that isn't imitation Fleming. As pure Gardner, he is quite a writer. -- New York Times

Stanley Ellin