Brokenclaw (James Bond Series)

by John Gardner

Overview

On holiday in Victoria, British Columbia, Bond becomes intrigued by Lee Fu-Chu, a half-Blackfoot, half-Chinese philanthropist who is known as 'Brokenclaw' because of a deformed hand. On his return to the UK, Bond is tasked to investigate the kidnapping of several scientists who have been working on a new submarine detection system. It becomes clear that Brokenclaw is behind the kidnapping and worse, he has a devastating plan to cause economic meltdown through the collapse of the dollar. Bond has no choice but to enter his lair . . . Brokenclaw is the tenth novel in John Gardner's thrilling James Bond series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781906772406
Publisher:	Ian Fleming Publications
Publication date:	06/01/2013
Series:	James Bond Series
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	322
File size:	336 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

Called upon to keep submarine-detection secrets away from the Chinese, James Bond combats Brokenclaw, the fiendish, sexually insatiable man whose nickname is a reference to a deformed left hand. ``Bond is both obnoxious and racist,'' said PW , warning that threatened and actual brutality toward women and disparaging remarks about Asians are but a few of this novel's faults. (Apr.)

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