John Gardner, Author . Severn $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5829-0
In this first of a new historical series, prolific British veteran Gardner (License Renewed
and 15 other James Bond novels; The Liquidator
and seven other Boysie Oakes novels; etc.) offers two books in one: the first, a poignant and spellbinding...
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John Gardner, Author . Severn $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5921-1
Fine atmospherics partly redeem a shaky plot in Gardner's second entry in his Suzie Mountford series (after 2002's Bottled Spider), set in WWII London. Det. Sergeant Mountford seeks to advance her career by tackling gangsters who have...
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John Gardner, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-312-37670-3
British author Gardner (1926–2007) offers an authentic view of London in peril from V-1 rockets in his fifth and presumably final Suzie Mountford WWII mystery (after 2006's Troubled Midnight
). During the summer of 1944, policewoman Suzie
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John Gardner, Author Scribner Book Company $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-684-82461-1
The venerable author of more than 40 novels (including 14 in the James Bond series) is back in full force after a hiatus. His new spy thriller imagines a delightfully erotic and complex web involving biblical scholarship and international political...
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John Gardner, Author . Harcourt/Penzler $24 (300p) ISBN 978-0-15-101252-7
A derivative plot mars the long-awaited sequel to The Return of Moriarty
(1974) and The Revenge of Moriarty
(1975), in which Gardner reimagined Sherlock Holmes's arch-nemesis as a Victorian godfather, and radically revised Doyle's...
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John Gardner, Author Jove Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-515-10237-6
Linked by marriage and the work they do for their countries' secret services, two families, the English Railtons and the American Farthings, get involved in the British government's investigation of a French Resistance network that was betrayed to...
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John Gardner, Author Berkley Publishing Group $5.5 (0p) 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 ,...
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John Gardner, Author Otto Penzler Books $22.5 (394p) ISBN 978-1-883402-25-9
In this second volume in Gardner's Last Kruger trilogy, Big Herbie Kruger--hero of an earlier trilogy--is called out of retirement to investigate the car-bomb assassination of Gus Keene, one of the most successful inquisitors (``confessors'') ever...
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John Gardner, Author Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-13541-5
In his ninth appearance from Gardner's ( Win, Lose or Die ) pen, agent 007, James Bond, is recuperating from burnout in San Francisco. But he is soon activated and charged with preventing classified submarine-detection secrets from falling into...
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John Gardner, Author Putnam Publishing Group $15.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-399-13716-7
Readers fond of Bond should not miss Gardner's latest 007 adventure, his 11th since he took over the series after the 1964 death of Ian Fleming, Bond's creator. Updated to the '90s, Bond now practices safe sex and seems to have given up both smoking
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John Gardner, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (286p) ISBN 978-0-399-13809-6
This sketchy detective story requires a knowledge of James Bond movies rather than Ian Fleming novels, which may explain why it reads like a rough draft for a screenplay. In Gardner's 12th 007 book (after Death Is Forever ), the ageless agent from...
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John Gardner, Author Otto Penzler Books $23 (610p) ISBN 978-1-883402-24-2
In this first book to appear under the Penzler imprint, Gardner pulls crusty old agent-runner Big Herbie Kruger out of semiretirement to represent Britain's Secret Intelligence Service in the debriefing of Louis Passau, an internationally renowned...
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John Gardner, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (286p) ISBN 978-0-399-13938-3
With this, his 13th James Bond novel, Gardner surpasses Ian Fleming's total output by one, but he continues to lag immeasurably behind Fleming in panache. Much has changed for 007 in the aftermath of the Cold War. For starters, he has a steady lover,
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John Gardner, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14149-2
An appropriate title adorns the slackest James Bond novel in ages. Here, 007 is assigned to find the persons behind the bombing of an airliner. His five-year search, 1990-1994, leads him to minor royalty, Italian mobsters, a power-crazed general in...
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John Gardner, Author, Stewart O'Nan, Editor, Charles Johnson, Introduction by Addison Wesley Publishing Company $25 (297p) ISBN 978-0-201-62672-8
Popular novelist, critic, teacher and classics scholar, Gardner, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1982, insisted that fiction should be moral and life-affirming. These 29 essays and reviews, gathered from the New York Times Book Review , Antaeus
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John Gardner, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-312-33721-6
Prolific British author Gardner, in the introduction to his predictable fourth Suzie Mountford mystery (after 2004's Angels Dining at the Ritz
), makes no apology for hanging his tale on a premise at least four other novelists have used before
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John Gardner, Author . Severn $27.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6134-4
British veteran Gardner (Bottled Spider
) pulls off the rare feat of coming up with a fresh angle on the enduring Jack the Ripper mystery. Londoner Phillip Tarpin has no sooner accepted a prestigious publishing job in New York than he's beset by
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John Gardner, read by Robin Sachs. AudioGO, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-62064-266-5
Unfortunately for this audio edition of Gardner’s intriguing take on the prototypical master criminal, narrator Robin Sachs turns in an uninspired performance. He reads the book’s introduction by Otto Penzler in a matter-of-fact manner, which proves
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John Gardner, read by Simon Vance. Brilliance Audio, , unabridged, 6 CDs, 7.5 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-5113-0658-4
Vance continues to prove an excellent choice for voicing England’s ultimate spy with a license to kill. This adventure, the 10th in the Gardner series, finds bored Bond on holiday in California. It is there that 007 becomes aware of Fu-Chu Lee who...
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