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FOR SPECIAL SERVICES.**

by GARDNER**, JOHN:

$262 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · In dust jacket

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj. Author's 2nd Bond novel after 'Licence Renewed' - see my book ID rja707717 for an exceptional example of his first title. In 'For Special Services',Bond is on loan to the United States Govrnment,his partner none other than the tough and beautiful Cedar,daughter of 007's old friend Felix Leiter.Their enemy? An old adversary,the legendary SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism,Revenge and Extortion),has reappeared. Bond and Cedar find themselves in some deadly and terrifying situations - from skyjack to plunging elevator,from armies of killer ants in the Mid-West to horror on a private mono-rail - before they come face to face with the heir to Blofeld's iniquitous empire. After a screen bonanza and a literary absence of more than a decade,the return of James Bond to the world of the 1980s a year ago (then 1981) raised some eyebrows but enticed the fans.In 'Licence Renewed (written under commission from Ian Fleming's copyright holders),John Gardner beguiled us with a Bond drinking less,smoking specially made low-tar cigarettes, his 00 status abolished but still unofficially sanctioned by M,a passing nod at feminism,his Mark II Continental Bentley gone in favour of the sprightly energy-conserving Saab Turbo 900.But here again,unmistakably,was the Bond of Fleming's books which have sold 91 million copies in 36 languages.John Gardner explained his attitude to Bond at length on the fro

  • Publisher: LONDON.CAPE,1982.
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: hardcover

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