For Special Services

by John Gardner

Book Overview

In For Special Services, Bond is on loan to the United States government, his partner none other than the tough and beautiful Cedar, daughter of 007 s old friend Felix Leiter. Their enemy? An old... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069811163X
• ISBN13: 9780698111639
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Coward McCann
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.

Customer Reviews

For Special Services returns a well known villian, SPECTRE!

This book is without a doubt Gardner's finest work. SPECTRE has returned under the leadership of Nena Blofeld. Markus Bismaquer is a formidable villian and Cedar Leiter shines as a bond girl. What can anyone find wrong with this book? It is a masterpiece!

GREAT-One of the best Bond books ever!

After reading Ian Fleming's Bond Books and Raymond Benson's novelizations of the movies, this almost top it all. SPECTRE is brought back into play after almost 30 years of absence. Gardner does an exquisite job of re-creating Ian Fleming's style. Plus a great twist at the ending. This should be a movie. The only problem was the SAAB, who drives a Saab?

Second Time Makes For Great Bond

"For Special Services", John Gardner's second James Bond novel, improves on the first as he builds a tale of mystery and almost constant suspense. This time, Bond is teamed with Felix Leiter's daughter Cedar to find out more about the return of SPECTRE. More fleshed-out villains, a great Bond girl (who Bond can't go after due to her father), and exciting, suspenseful writing make one realize how underrated Gardner's books are. One of his best.

BEST JOHN GARDENER BOOK IVE EVER READ

The Plot was great and the characters made the action filled book believable. I recomend A+++++!