Scorpius - Couverture souple

Gardner, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340488395 ISBN 13 : 9780340488393

Editeur : Coronet Books, 1989

Synopsis

The corpse of a young girl is found in the Thames. Special Branch call on James Bond who finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly game of terrorism and arms supplies involving the Society of the Meek Ones led by Father Valentine who has links with Vladimir Scorpius "The King of Terror". This book is the latest in the James Bond series. The author has also written "The Garden of Weapons", "The Nostradamus Traitor", "The Secret Generations" and "The Secret Houses".

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

After Colonel Sun (1968) by Kingsley Amis, John Gardner was the next writer to be asked 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. 'Probably the biggest mistake I ever made,' he says. 'I confused the desire to please my father with a vocation which I soon found I did not have.'
In all, Gardner had fifty-five novels to his credit - many of them bestsellers. John Gardner died in 2007.

For more information about John Gardner and his non-Bond works, visit his website.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Official, original James Bond from a writer described by Len Deighton as a 'master storyteller'.

When the body of a mysterious woman is found to be carrying the phone number of James Bond, Bond is called in by M to help the investigation. But before he can even reach headquarters he is nearly run off the road in a high-speed motorway chase. Someone wants Bond dead.

Then Bond discovers that the woman was a member of a cult society known as "The Meek Ones", with murky links to a wealthy arms dealer. Soon, hideous acts of terrorism begin to roll out across Britain and Bond finds himself in a race against time to track down the faceless criminal behind the horror ...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Coronet Books
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0340488395
• ISBN 13: 9780340488393
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible