cover image Brokenclaw

Brokenclaw

John Gardner. Berkley Publishing Group, $5.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-425-12721-6

Called upon to keep submarine-detection secrets away from the Chinese, James Bond combats Brokenclaw, the fiendish, sexually insatiable man whose nickname is a reference to a deformed left hand. ``Bond is both obnoxious and racist,'' said PW , warning that threatened and actual brutality toward women and disparaging remarks about Asians are but a few of this novel's faults. (Apr.)