Win, Lose or Die - Hardcover

Gardner, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399134360 ISBN 13: 9780399134364

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989

Synopsis

Bond is transferred to sea duty aboard the HMS Illustrious to guard the British, Russian, and American admirals on board, only to have the aircraft carrier captured by terrorists

About this title

About the Author:

John Gardner’s gripping James Bond novels include: Seafire, License Renewed, Icebreaker, Role of Honour, Nobody Lives Forever, No Deals Mr. Bond, and Never Send Flowers.

SIMON VANCE is a prolific and popular audiobook narrator and actor with several hundred audiobooks to his credit. An Audie® Award-winner, Vance was recently named "The Voice of Choice" by Booklist magazine.

From Publishers Weekly:

Fortunately for Gardner, dyed-in-the wool James Bond fans may be disposed to overlook the lack of credibility and characterization in this latest thriller featuring the superspy. The leaders of Britain, Russia and the U.S. are planning a top-secret summit aboard HMS Invincible . We never learn what they want to talk about, but we do know that BAST (Brotherhood of Anarchy and Secret Terror) is up to some high-level nastiness. Alerted to the threat, British Intelligence sends James Bond to protect the "heads of state." Promoted to captain, Bond is trained on Harrier jump-jets, and narrowly escapes death when a Sidewinder missile intercepts his flight path. Human menaces include "the Cat," a mysterious female terrorist, and "the Viper," head of BAST. A lot of huffing, puffing, padding ("Bond has not shown all his cards") and sloppy writing ("the first kind of ship of her type") occur before a limp confrontation that takes place inside the Rock of Gibraltar, with chief villain Bassam Baradj, inanely "born plain Robert Besavitsky, in the old Hell's Kitchen area of New York."
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About this edition

• Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0399134360
• ISBN 13: 9780399134364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 319