Icebreaker - Softcover

John Gardner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1409135640 ISBN 13: 9781409135647

Publisher: Orion, 2012

Synopsis

Official, original James Bond from a writer described by Len Deighton as a 'master storyteller'.

Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an equally dangerous and treacherous alliance of agents from the CIA, the KGB and Israel's Mossad. The team dubbed 'Icebreaker' waste no time double crossing each other, as they try to root out the leader of the murderous National Socialist Action Army, Count Konrad von Gloda, a one time SS officer, who now perceives himself as the New Adolf Hitler.

About this title

About the Author:

AfterColonel Sun(1968) byKingsley 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 filmsGoldenEyeandLicence 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.

For more information about John Gardner and his non-Bond works, visit his website.

Review:

“His plot is full of good action; his torture scenes are splendidly painful.”
- Times Literary Supplement

“One of his best yet in his 007 mode.”
- The Listener

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1409135640
• ISBN 13: 9781409135647
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 243