- English Spy stories, Fiction, Intelligence service, James Bond (Fictitious character)
On holiday in Victoria, British Columbia, Bond becomes by intrigued Lee Fu-Chu, a half-Blackfoot, half-Chinese philanthropist who is known as "Brokenclaw" because of a deformed hand.
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Classical in form, cool, unpretentious and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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- Author
- John Gardner
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Berkley Books, Putnam, Hodder & Stoughton
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, vie
- ISBN
- 9780340542897
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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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