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**Someone is poisoning British soldiers in Cyprus; the same killer has murdered a British intelligence agent in Athens. James Bond himself barely escapes with his life....**
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- Author
- Raymond Benson
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 279
- Publisher
- Putnam, Jove, Hodder & Stoughton
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780399144059
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“The tableau of pain and suffering might have been a freeze-frame from a macabre dance of death.”
Raymond Benson is the author of over forty published books, including The Mad, Mad Murders Of Marigold Way (winner of the IPPY Gold Medal in Mystery, 2022), Blues in the Dark (2019), In The Hush of the Night (2018) and The Secrets on Chicory Lane (2017). Raymond is most well-known for being the third—and first American—author to be commissioned to write James Bond continuation novels. Six original works and three movie novelizations were published worldwide between 1997-2002. His debut 007 novel, Zero Minus Ten, is being reprinted in the UK in 2023. Raymond’s book The James Bond Bedside Companion, first published in 1984, was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award by Mystery Writers of Ameri
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