- Fiction, Civil war, Intelligence officers, Fiction, espionage
"It's 1969, and James Bond--British special agent 007--is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening the established regime.
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Classical in form, grave, nostalgic and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- William Boyd
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Harper, HarperPerennial
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780224097475
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“James Bond was dreaming.”
William Boyd is a British novelist and screenwriter.
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