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A single blood-tipped rose is the only linking clue to the assassination of four high profile figures - time to call in 007. The 13th in the John Gardner Series of Bond books originally published in 1993.
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About Never Send Flowers
In different corners of the world, four high-profile figures are assassinated in less than a week. Nobody claims responsibility, and nobody links the deaths. But one thing is certain: each victim has been stalked, sought out and killed with care and preparation.
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In different corners of the world, four high-profile figures are assassinated in less than a week. Nobody claims responsibility, and nobody links the deaths. But one thing is certain: each victim has been stalked, sought out and killed with care and preparation.
Then a sinister connection is established: a single, blood-tipped rose is sent to each funeral. When MI5 come to MI6 to ask for help M brings in his best. At first, a weekend abroad seems tempting to James Bond, especially when he's paired with gorgeous Swiss intelligence officer Flicka von Grusse.
But this is a perilous assignment that starts with the mysterious actor David Dragonpol and leads them on a harrowing manhunt through Athens, Milan and Paris . . . and towards an explosive climax. John Gardner's formidable storytelling skills shine in Never Send Flowers, his thirteenth James Bond novel.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781906772444 |
| Publication date: |
1st September 2014 |
| Author: |
John Gardner |
| Publisher: |
Ian Fleming Publications |
| Format: |
Ebook |
| Primary Genre |
Thriller and Suspense
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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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