James Bond: Icebreaker: A Novel
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James Bond: Icebreaker: A Novel

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Price
$10.74
Format
Paperback
Pages
304
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1605981956
Dimensions
5.6 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
Weight
9.8 ounces

Description

Review “His plot is full of good action; his torture scenes are splendidly painful.” - Times Literary Supplement “One of his best yet in his 007 mode.” - The Listener About the Author Thriller writer John Gardner (1926-2007) had fifty-five books to his credit when he passed away, many of them bestsellers, which include his trilogy of James Moriarty novels.

Features & Highlights

  • For the first time in trade paperback—with new introductions—the novels that began John Gardner's career as the author of the thrilling James Bond 007 series.
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  • Icebreaker
  • , as indestructible as ever, Bond is back in another mission—a deadly assignment undertaken in cohort with Bond’s opposite numbers from the United States, the Soviet Union, and Israel in the desolate Arctic wastes of Lapland. Yet if resurgent fascism is the common enemy, who is really to be feared? Is it the breezy American or the voluptuous Israeli who is acting as a double agent? Are the Finns merely using Bond to break the KGB's stranglehold on their tenuous national autonomy? Never has Bond encountered such an unnervingly deceitful bunch of collaborators or been subjected to such a bewildering series of potentially lethal shocks.

Customer Reviews

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Weakest of the series to that date

If you wanted to emasculate Bond and have him be subservient to other intelligence agency spies, then you did the job here...he acts like he has to be told what to do and written like writing to young kids. Not equal to past Gardner efforts in the series and makes Bond look like he does not know how to do his job or able to evaluate others.
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then I gave "For Special Services" an opportunity and I was glad to do so because it was way better tan ...

When I read "License Renewed" I thought 'well, this is disappointing, no more James Bond novels for me', then I gave "For Special Services" an opportunity and I was glad to do so because it was way better tan the first Gardner's Bond novel, now Icebreaker is keeping the good pace from FSS, it was a really fun book with lots of twists every freaking page, the pace is like a mistery movie, every character could be the bad guy (or girl), there were more crosses and double crosses than a Catholic church! I hope the remain of Gardner's Bond books that I haven't read are as fun as this one.
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I think Gardner is the best post-Fleming Bond writer, but somehow this is the worst post-Fleming novel I've read

I had optimism for this book, because I really enjoyed the first two by Gardner. But this really is the worst of the post-Fleming Bond novels I've read. I would have to agree with some of the other reviews; Bond really comes across as a dumb character here. The number of double-crosses and even triple-crosses in this book is not clever but entirely aggravating. I will probably read more of Gardner's Bond novels because I do think his first two outings are the best post-Fleming Bond novels I've read. Hoping this is just an anomaly.
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Good book

Liked it.
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Bond continuation #3

They’re getting worse! Bond book #1 was solid, book 2 less so, and this one weak and flimsy. The “Icebreaker” initiative takes too long to get going, and the plot unravels in ridiculous fashion. This is like the worst Bond films: Spy who Loved Me, Die Another Day, etc. The cold environment, the interagency intitiative aspect, and the secret base were interesting, but the other aspects were too detrimental.
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Five Stars

good book
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Its a winner

Bought it for my husband. He is not a reader. After the first book he was hooked. He loves the books.
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Hard to put it down...

This book has so many twists and turns that it is had to put down. Just when you think you know who the bad guys are, you find that they are good guys. It has been on of the best reads of my life.

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