Licence Renewed (1981) by John Gardner - the 2011 edition
By: FSWL team
Published:
2011-11-07
Publication of a new paperback edition of Licence Renewed, John Gardner's first James Bond 007 novel. The book is published by Orion Books in the UK. (New UK paperbacks of For Special Services and Icebreaker is also released today.)
The first of John Gardner's novels featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent. Bond has been assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been meeting with a terrorist known as Franco. Together they plan to hijack six nuclear power plants around the world and start a global meltdown, unless Bond can stop them.
John Gardner served with the Fleet Air Arm and Royal Marines before embarking on a long career as a thriller writer, including international bestsellers The Nostradamus Traitor and The Garden of Weapons. In 1981 he was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to revive James Bond in a brand new series of novels.
Book details:
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher:
Orion Books
Language: English
Retail price: £7.99
ISBN-10: 1409137074
ISBN-13: 978-1409137078
Cover above:
The new UK paperback edition of Licence Renewed (2012).
Order the new paperback edition of John Gardner's Licence Renewed from Amazon UK:
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1409137074/fromswedenwit-21/
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