The Garden of Weapons - Hardcover

Gardner, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070228515 ISBN 13: 9780070228511

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1981

Synopsis

British spymaster Herbie Kruger investigates his own spy network in East Berlin, the Telegraph Boys, for a double agent when one KGB officer commits suicide in East Germany and another defects

About this title

About the Author:

Before coming an author of fiction in he early 1960's John Gardner was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer and a journalist. In all Gardner has fifty-four novels to his credit, including a series of highly acclaimed comic novels featuring a cowardly secret agent called Boysie Oakes. He was also invited by Ian Fleming's literary copyright holders to write a series of continuation James Bond novels, which proved to be so successful that instead of the contracted three books he went on to publish some fourteen titles. Having lived in the Republic of Ireland, the United States and the UK, John Gardner sadly died in August of 2007 having just completed his third novel in the Moriarty trilogy. Moriarty was published in the UK by Quercus and in the US by Harcourt in November 2008.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0070228515
• ISBN 13: 9780070228511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1