Deep in the heart of London a secret meeting is taking place. Drastic plans are being put into action. But Boysie Oakes, the suave, womanising special agent for British Intelligence, is unaware of the events unfolding around him - and is revelling in being free from the treacherous clutches of Special Security. Boysie, his former boss Mostyn and Charlie Griffin, have set up their own Security Service, GRIMOBO. Their first assignment has brought them to New York and Boysie has snatched a vacation at Cape Kennedy. Life is looking up. But, of course, something has to go wrong. It's just a small thing. Some light-fingered swine makes off with a Saturn V rocket. What's more, Boysie seems to have disappeared too. The same thieves that wanted the rocket want Boysie. For a change, though, they want him alive. Very much alive. And totally functional. Boysie's holiday turns out to be the trip of a lifetime and he ends up travelling further than he ever expected. But all is not lost as of course a beautiful woman is also along for the ride. And Boysie Oakes is about to be plunged into the most dramatic adventure of his career. 'Cool polished story-telling with all the sexy sidelines in the best James Bond tradition' Evening Standard Before coming an author of fiction in the early 1960's John Gardner was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer and a journalist. In all Gardner has fifty-four novels to his credit, including Maestro, which was the New York Times book of the year. He was also invited by Ian Fleming's literary copyright holders to write a series of continuation James Bond novels, which proved to be so successful that instead of the contracted three books he went on to publish some fourteen titles, including Licence Renewed and Icebreaker. Having lived in the Republic of Ireland, the United States and the UK, John Gardner sadly died in August of 2007 having just completed his third novel in the Moriarty trilogy, Conan Doyle's eponymous villain of the Sherlock Holmes series. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.