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    Licence Renewed

    By John Gardner

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    About this ebook

    Licence Renewed is first of ‘master storyteller’ John Gardner's novels featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent.

    Bond has been assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been meeting with a terrorist known as Franco. Together they plan to hijack six nuclear power plants around the world and start a global meltdown. Unless Bond can stop them . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIan Fleming Publications
    Release dateJun 1, 2013
    ISBN9781906772451
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    John Gardner

    John Gardner (1933–1982) was born in Batavia, New York. His critically acclaimed books include the novels Grendel, The Sunlight Dialogues, and October Light, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as several works of nonfiction and criticism such as On Becoming a Novelist. He was also a professor of medieval literature and a pioneering creative writing teacher whose students included Raymond Carver and Charles Johnson.

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    • 3/5
      A pretty average Bond novel. Which probably means that this is a very good Gardner Bond.
    • 3/5
      Probably more like 3.5
      A good re-entry into Bond, updated to the 80s but still retaining some of that Fleming panache.
    • 4/5
      I thought this would be a load of crap, but I was amazed to find out that it's a brilliant novel. Great job of bringing Bond into the '80s from where Ian Flemming left him in the late '60s with The Man with the Golden Gun. 4.6
    • 3/5
      This first post-Fleming Bond updates our hero to the early 1980s. He drinks less. He smokes low-tar cigarettes. He jogs.

      An entertaining, if long-winded pastiche of material from the earlier Bond books (and even movies). While Gardner lack's Fleming's sheer verve in conveying brutality, violence, and sex, he does display a fine hand with setting and suspense.