The Man From Barbarossa (1991) by John Gardner - 2012 edition

By: FSWL team

Published:
2012-03-14

New paperback edition the man from barbarossa

Publication of a new paperback edition of The Man From Barbarossa, John Gardner's tenth James Bond novel. The book is published by Orion Books in the UK.

James Bond has been partnered with an Israeli Mossad agent, Pete Natkowitz, and assigned to work with the KGB to infiltrate a terrorist group. The group, The Scales of Justice, are demanding the trial of a suspected Nazi war criminal and each day of delay brings another death. Posing as a TV crew, Bond and the other agents attempt to discover the group's real motive. When Bond realises that the real aim is to supply Iraq with nuclear weapons just before the United Nations-led coalition invades he faces the most crucial mission of his life.

Book details:
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Orion Books
Language: English
Retail price: £7.99
ISBN-10: 1409135713
ISBN-13: 978-1409135715

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 The Man From Barbarossa (2012). Many thanks to our dear friend John Cox, proprietor of The Book Bond.

Order the new paperback edition of John Gardner's The Man From Barbarossa from Amazon UK:

www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1409135713/fromswedenwit-21/

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