Death Is Forever (1992) by John Gardner - 2012 PB edition

By: FSWL team

Published:
2012-03-14

Publication of a new paperback edition of Death Is Forever, John Gardner's eleventh James Bond novel. The book is published by Orion Books in the UK.

The Cold War is over. After two British agents die under mysterious and strangely old-fashioned circumstances in Germany, Bond is paired up with beautiful CIA agent 'Easy' St John. He's been assigned to track down the surviving members of "Cabal", a Cold War-era intelligence network that received a mysterious and unauthorised signal to disband. It's not long before Bond and Easy find themselves playing a life-or-death game as they try to figure out who they can trust. All the while, Cabal agents are dying one by one.

Book details:
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Orion Books
Language: English
Retail price: £7.99
ISBN-10: 1409135721
ISBN-13: 978-1409135722

About John Gardner:
After Colonel Sun (1968) by Kingsley Amis, John Gardner was the next writer to be asked by Glidrose (now Ian Fleming Publications) to write further adventures of James Bond. He wrote, like Ian Fleming, fourteen Bond books, plus novelizations 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 said. '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 is greatly missed. The Orion Publishing group re-released Gardner's first five James Bond titles, Licence Renewed, For Special Services, Icebreaker, Nobody Lives Forever and Role of Honour in a glorious hardback edition, featuring their original cover art in the summer of 2011.

Editor's note:
All fourteen of the Gardner titles will be released during 2012 starting in February, with his two film tie-in books GoldenEye and Licence to Kill scheduled for publication in November and August respectively. All his Bond titles are also available in the States from Pegasus Books.

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

Cover above:
The new UK paperback edition of Death Is Forever (2012). Many thanks to our dear friend John Cox, proprietor of The Book Bond.

Order the new paperback edition of John Gardner's Death Is Forever from Amazon UK:

www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1409135721/fromswedenwit-21/

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