Brokenclaw: A James Bond thriller
By (Author) John Gardner
Orion Publishing Co
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
27th November 2012
5th July 2012
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
256
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
240g
On holiday in Victoria, British Columbia, Bond becomes intrigued Lee Fu-Chu, a half-Blackfoot, half-Chinese philanthropist who is known as ''Brokenclaw'' because of a deformed hand.
On his return to the UK Bond is tasked to investigate the kidnapping of several scientists who have been working on a new submarine detection system. It becomes clear that Brokenclaw is behind the kidnapping and worse, he has a devastating plan to cause economic meltdown through the collapse of the dollar.Bond has no choice but to enter his lair...After Kingsley Amis, John Gardner was the next writer to be asked by Glidrose (now IFPL) to write further adventures of James Bond. He wrote, like Fleming, fourteen Bond books, plus novelisations 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. In all, Gardner had fifty-five novels to his credit - many of them best-sellers - before he died in August 2007.For more information about John Gardner and his non-Bond works, visit his own website at www.john-gardner.com