Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) Death is forever

I luv james bond n john gardner also.I never mind to critics.Here its excellent story.A gud Treat for bond fans.But it has a slow pace comparing to others like icebreaker

all fine

Post cold war but the commies don't seem to have got the message. Former members of a ring that has been disbanded keep being hunted down.Only the deputy head of the former East German Intelligence Service would appear to have any motive. Classic tale with plane flights, train journeys and killers on the loose from Germany to Paris and Venice the action never stops. Gardner has again captured the essence of Bond and brought him into the 21st century.

The twelfth James Bond novel published by long-standing continuation author John Gardner sees the British secret agent embracing the mores of the early 1990s as he investigates the disappearance of some former agents around Europe.In some senses, it’s a classic Bond novel - exotic travel on the latest high class trains, female characters with absurdly suggestive names, and over-the-top villains. Yet it’s almost spoilt by Gardner’s attempts to make it work as a contemporary story - these things seem cheesy and forced into the novel, rather than the airy, natural feeling of being in place in the original Fleming stories (not that every line of Fleming’s has survived the test of time!).I remember reading this novel as a teenager, yet only one line has stuck in my mind and the plot was totally alien. That the line in question was entirely inconsequential and entirely about trying to seem in place in the 1990s only emphasises the feeling I expressed above.As a novel, it’s okay - but it’s not Gardner’s best entry in the series.

Classic Bond.