Nobody Lives Forever (James Bond Master Spy) - Hardcover

Gardner, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399131515 ISBN 13: 9780399131516

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1986

Synopsis

Death strikes uncomfortably close to James Bond and when his housekeeper, May--convalescing in Austria--is kidnapped, he discovers that there is a contract out for his life offered by Tamil Rahani

About this title

About the Author:

John Gardner was comissioned by Glidrose, the companyto which Ian Fleming assigned the copyright in his James Bond stories, to update the series and bring a slightly older Bond into the 1980s. The first of his Bond books, Licence Renewed, was am immediate success, the Daily Telegraph passing the verdict that 'Ian Fleming would not be displeased.' It was quickly folowed by For Special Services, Icebreaker, which the Standard claimed was 'just as enjoyable as the oriignal', and Role of Honour.

From Publishers Weekly:

If anyone does live forever, it's likely to be the definitive swashbuckler invented by the late Ian Fleming and starred in Gardner's fifth tale of James Bond's feats. Secret agent 007 is driving through France when he learns that his demonic foe Tamil Rahani will pay a fortune to whomever delivers Bond's head on a silver plate. The entire thug population of Europe is competing for the prize, and the intended victim is lucky that two luscious and daring females are traveling with him. They rescue him from certain death repeatedly as he races to meet his housekeeper, May, and the loyal secretary, Miss Moneypenny, at the clinic in Austria where May is recovering from pneumonia. Holding the winning hand, however, Rahani's gang has abducted the women and 007 must risk decapitation to save them. The mission takes the hero and his bodyguards to an island off the Florida coast where Rahani is waiting with an authentic guillotine in an impregnable castle. In true comic-book fashion, the gory chapters detail the horrors that kill almost everyone except Bond who obviously won't die until he wants to. Literary Guild alternate.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0399131515
• ISBN 13: 9780399131516
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 301