For Special Services: A James Bond thriller
Jun 2011 · Hachette UK
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Official, original James Bond from a writer described by Len Deighton as a 'master storyteller'.
In this heart-stopping thriller, James Bond teams up with CIA agent Cedar Leiter, to investigate a dangerous criminal, suspected of reviving the notorious organisation SPECTRE. The organisation was believed to have been disbanded years earlier following the death of its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, at the hands of Bond (in You Only Live Twice), but it seems that this is far from true.
Bond discovers that the revitalised SPECTRE has the most devastating, world-threatening plans: to gain control of America's military space satellite network.
In this heart-stopping thriller, James Bond teams up with CIA agent Cedar Leiter, to investigate a dangerous criminal, suspected of reviving the notorious organisation SPECTRE. The organisation was believed to have been disbanded years earlier following the death of its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, at the hands of Bond (in You Only Live Twice), but it seems that this is far from true.
Bond discovers that the revitalised SPECTRE has the most devastating, world-threatening plans: to gain control of America's military space satellite network.
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First of all, I didn't think this book would be this good. The last book "Licence Renewed" was not that good or not at the level off the Fleming books. But in "For Special Services" Gardner creates his own version of bond way different from Fleming. This time, Bond has to stop SPECTRE, his old nemesis, from taking control of NORAD headquarters in order to gain control of America's military space satellite network. There is a relationship between Bond and Cedar Leiter who is the daughter of Felix Leiter and Bond is creepy in the beginning when he meets her. The villain who is Markus Bismaquer is not that good of a villain in the end. I won't spoil the surprise. This has some great detailed action scenes and a shocking and very violent ending. I give this book a 9/10
Grahame Tullett
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May 18, 2015
It keep you wondering who the crook ls. Then with a twist you find out it is his daughter.
About the author
After COLONEL SUN (1968) by Kingsley Amis, John Gardner was the next writer to be asked to write further adventures of James Bond. He wrote, like Fleming, fourteen Bond books, plus novelisations of the films GOLDENEYE and LICENCE TO KILL, from 1981 to 1996. Before becoming an author of fiction in the early 1960s John Gardner was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer, a journalist and, for a short time, a priest in the Church of England. 'Probably the biggest mistake I ever made,' he says. 'I confused the desire to please my father with a vocation which I soon found I did not have.' In all, Gardner had fifty-five novels to his credit - many of them bestsellers. John Gardner died in 2007.
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