- Spy fiction, 007, secret agents, secret service
James Bond pits his nerve and cunning against a dangerously deranged opponent -- one prepared to sacrifice most of the Western world to prove that only he can make it safe from accidental nuclear holocaust.
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Classical in form, resolved, epic and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- John Gardner
- First published
- November 1, 1985
- Pages
- 278
- Publisher
- Berkley Books, Berkley, Jonathon Cape
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- English, French, und
- ISBN
- 9780224019415
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John Edmund Gardner was an English writer of spy and thriller novels. He is best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also wrote a series of Boysie Oakes books and three novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty.
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