Author: John Gardner Publisher: Jonathan Cape Published: 1984 Recently I have been re-reading some of John Gardner’s James Bond novels, and although they have been rather flawed, I have still enjoyed them. That is till now. As a teenager, I remember enjoying Role of Honour, but upon this reading I found it to be extremely […]
4Aug11
Role of Honour
28Jul11
Licence to Kill (1989)
Country: United Kingdom Director: John Glen Starring: Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Carey Lowell, Anthony Zerbe, Wayne Newton, Benicio Del Toro, Robert Brown as M, Desmond Llewellyn as Q, Caroline Bliss as Moneypenny Music: Michael Kamen Main title song: ‘Licence To Kill’ performed by Gladys Knight End title song: ‘If I Ask You To’ […]
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Tagged Anthony Zerbe, Ian Fleming, James Bond, John Gardner, Licence to Kill, Robert Davi, Timothy Dalton, Wayne Newton
Tagged Anthony Zerbe, Ian Fleming, James Bond, John Gardner, Licence to Kill, Robert Davi, Timothy Dalton, Wayne Newton
30Apr11
Icebreaker
Author: John Gardner Publisher: Jonathan Cape Published: 1983 In my review of For Special Services, I detailed how it and John Gardner’s third continuation novel, Icebreaker, came into my life, so I won’t rehash that, but if you’ll forgive the self indulgence, I’ll relate another Bondian tale from that very same trip through Asia. Like […]
15Apr11
For Special Services
Author: John Gardner Publisher: Jonathan Cape Published: 1982 As a teenager, in 1983, I traveled through Asia – with my family of course – and in Taiwan, at the Imperial Book, Sound and Gift Store in Taipei I found the next two books in John Gardner’s series of James Bond continuation novels. Those being For […]
26Mar11
Licence Renewed
Author: John Gardner Publisher: Jonathan Cape Published: 1981 As a kid I was always pretty lucky tracking down books. My aunt ran a second hand book shop and whenever I got hooked on a series, she’d help to find the books I was after. When I was really young, it was the Charlie Brown comic […]
8Feb10
Holmes Book Cover 6
The Return of Moriarty – by John Gardner – 1974 This edition is a re-release intended to ride on the success of John Gardner’s first James Bond continuation novel, Licence Renewed (that’s License Renewed for American readers).
21Mar07
The Liquidator (1965)
Director: Jack CardiffStarring: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St John, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Akim Tamiroff, Gabriella Licudi, Eric Sykes, John Le Mesurier, Derek Nimmo, David TomlinsonMusic: Lalo SchifrinTitle song performed by Shirley BasseyBased on the novel by John Gardner Brian ‘Boysie’ Oakes was a character created by John Gardner as a sort of antithesis of James […]
