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Title details for Cold Fall by John Gardner - Available

Cold Fall

by John Gardner
Christopher Cazenove
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The night that Flight 229 was blown apart upon landing at Washington's Dulles Airport— killing almost 400 passengers aboard— James Bond embarked on a mission that would become an obsession. Who was responsible for destroying the British-owned aircraft? Was it a straightforward act of terrorism, an assassination aimed at only one person, or a move to put the airline out of business? The search for answers has a personal meaning: Bond' s former lover and old friend, the Principessa Sukie Tempesta, is listed as one of the ill-fated passengers.

In this white-knuckle 007 thriller, master spy James Bond undertakes the most complex and demanding assignment of his career. Across continents and through ever-changing labyrinths of evil, Bond follows the traces of clues to an organization more deadly than any terrorist army. What Bond finds could very well spell his own last days.

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    May 1, 1996

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781597774499
      • File size: 84274 KB
      • Duration: 02:55:34

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 3, 1996
      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 Idaho and the Children of the Last Days, an underground neo-fascist terrorist organization. Those are sturdy enough timbers, but to build this novel, Gardner joins them with paste-prose so inane it's laughable. Of one villain, it's said: "He's the kind of monster who strangles cats just for the hell of it." Some time after Bond's true love dies, a new paramour comments, while holding her predecessor's ashes in an urn: "Why don't I put her in the bedroom. She's from your past and I don't mind sharing you with her." Perfunctory attempts to increase readers' pulse rates through a kidnapping of M, a personal betrayal of Bond and other means can't disguise the fact that, in his 14th Bond adventure, Gardner is just going numbly through the paces.

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