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John Gardner (2) (1926–2007)

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John Gardner (2) via een alias veranderd in John E. Gardner.

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Vergunning verlengd (1981) 726 exemplaren
De ijsbreker (1983) 565 exemplaren
Een zaak van eer (1984) 474 exemplaren
No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987) 407 exemplaren
James Bond 25 - Scorpius (1988) — Auteur — 382 exemplaren
Win, Lose, or Die (1989) 352 exemplaren
Brokenclaw (1990) 301 exemplaren
The Return of Moriarty (1974) 289 exemplaren
Licence to kill (1989) 277 exemplaren
De man van Barbarossa (1992) 259 exemplaren
Death Is Forever (1993) 248 exemplaren
The Revenge of Moriarty (1975) 222 exemplaren
James Bond 33 - GoldenEye (1995) 212 exemplaren
James Bond 32 - Operatie Seafire (1995) 212 exemplaren
Moriarty (2008) 208 exemplaren
Een kil complot (1996) 202 exemplaren
Secret Generations (1985) 115 exemplaren
The Nostradamus Traitor (1979) 93 exemplaren
Secret Houses (1987) 86 exemplaren
The Garden of Weapons (1613) 72 exemplaren
Maestro (1993) 68 exemplaren
The Liquidator (1964) 68 exemplaren
The Secret Families (1987) 62 exemplaren
The Werewolf Trace (1975) 59 exemplaren
Confessor (1995) 48 exemplaren
Understrike (1965) 48 exemplaren
Golgotha (1980) 46 exemplaren
De stille honden (1982) 43 exemplaren
Amber Nine (1966) 34 exemplaren
The Airline Pirates (1970) 32 exemplaren
No Human Envy (2007) 29 exemplaren
Madrigal (1967) 27 exemplaren
Troubled Midnight (2005) 26 exemplaren
Day Of Absolution: A Novel (2000) 25 exemplaren
The Last Trump (1980) 23 exemplaren
Bottled Spider (2002) 22 exemplaren
The Streets of Town (2003) 20 exemplaren
A Killer For A Song (1976) 20 exemplaren
Traitor's Exit (1970) 19 exemplaren
Angels Dining at the Ritz (2004) 19 exemplaren
Flamingo (1983) 18 exemplaren
To Run A Little Faster (1976) 17 exemplaren
The Censor (1970) 16 exemplaren
Founder Member (1969) 14 exemplaren
A Complete State of Death (1969) 14 exemplaren
The Corner Men (1974) 9 exemplaren
The Director (1982) 9 exemplaren
The Assassination File (1974) 9 exemplaren
James Bond Boxed Set (2011) 8 exemplaren
Hideaway (1968) 5 exemplaren
The stone killer (1969) 4 exemplaren
I Have 1 exemplaar
Spin the Bottle 1 exemplaar

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GARDNER, John
Geboortedatum
1926-11-20
Overlijdensdatum
2007-08-03
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
UK
Geboorteplaats
Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, England, UK
Plaats van overlijden
Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK
Oorzaak van overlijden
heart failure

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A Masterpiece of Spy fiction.
Enthralling from first to last page with superb characterisation throughout especially 'Big Herbie Kruger'. The tension is palpable and mounts as you flick the page. There are more than enough surprises and twists along the way for my ageing brain to comprehend.
Absolute quality cannot wait for book three.
 
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Gudasnu | Mar 7, 2024 |
The first in the John Gardner era of James Bond continuation novels. With the double oh section in obsolete semi retirement, is once again called upon safe day. It’s an interesting premise and an unusual bond villain. Unfortunately get slightly wasted in this somewhat mediocre offering. It feels more like fanfiction rather than a legitimates character, art for bond and indeed Even an acceptance of a new version of James Bond. I think there might be some mileage in looking at this. If you’re interested in running the James Bond role-playing game just to give yourself some more ideas but otherwise unless you’re a completist this is something that if you miss it, it won’t matter.… (meer)
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Icebreaker by John Garnder is the third James Bond novel the author wrote, and published in 1983. Mr. Gardner was an English novelist, known for his Bond Books, as well as books featuring Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis, Professor Moriarty.

James Bond, agent 007, finds himself in the unenviable position of blindly going on a mission with agents from the CIA, Mossad, and KGB, together dubbed “Icebreaker”. The mission is to investigate the National Socialist Action Army (NSAA), a Neo-Nazi organization, assassinating diplomats and hoarding weapons in Finland.

The head of the NSAA is Count Konrad von Glöda, a former SS officer who thinks is the new Hitler. The goal is to bring on a new wave of fascism around the world.

This book, I think, is the best Bond book by John Gardner (this is the third one, and the third I’ve read by him). The action is exciting, Bond joins a multi-national black-ops team and is called upon to stop a Neo-Nazi organization with plenty of resources to worry even the strongest governments.

I found the theme of the solitary Bond trying to be a team player to be an interesting exploration of the character. Of course, the team is a bunch of spies and telling the truth is a foreign concept to them whether they’d like to or not.

Icebreaker contains betrayals upon betrayals which keeps the narrative fresh and exciting. Even the current girlfriend, Paula Vacker, is not who she seems, over and over again.

You can feel Bond’s frustration as he’s being thrown into the field with no one to trust. Except, maybe, Eric Carlsson who trains him how to drive in the Arctic.

The torture scene was very well done and powerful, Ian Fleming would have approved. Unlike other Bond books, this one only has two locations, and not too exotic –no location which Fleming would have liked to vacation at.
Even though, I’d love to go to Lapland one of these days.

Mr. Gardner wrote a book with a plot that is more subtle than anything Ian Fleming ever did, and it works. I’m sure he never thought that this book, whose plot is the rise of fascism, is more relevant today than its original release date.
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7,798
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