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The second instalment of John Gardner's Bond series sees Bond join forces with CIA agent Cedar Leiter, daughter of Felix, for some more thrilling adventure.
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About For Special Services
Blofeld is dead. And SPECTRE, the world's greatest criminal organisation, disbanded. But then a series of murders and hijackings reveal the unimaginable: someone has revitalised SPECTRE - and it is now more dangerous than ever.
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Blofeld is dead. And SPECTRE, the world's greatest criminal organisation, disbanded. But then a series of murders and hijackings reveal the unimaginable: someone has revitalised SPECTRE - and it is now more dangerous than ever.
Armed with the latest high-tech weapons and gadgets - and a new partner, CIA agent Cedar Leiter - James Bond undertakes his most perilous mission yet. He must halt SPECTRE's plans to take control of America's defences. And come face to face with the heir to Blofeld's evil empire.
For Special Services is the second heart-stopping instalment of John Gardner's Bond series.
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'A must for James Bond fans.' Bradford Telegraph & Argus
'This is a thrilling read.' The Catholic Herald
About John Gardner
After Colonel Sun (1968) by Kingsley Amis, John Gardner was the next writer to be asked by Glidrose (now IFPL) 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 best-sellers (his Maestro was a New York Times Book of the Year). Sadly John Gardner died on Friday 3rd August 2007. John was a highly respected and admired member of the Bond family and he will be greatly missed.
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