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James Bond is placed on a secret loan to the United States Government and prepared to tackle a resurging adversary now under a sinister new leadership and executing a devastating operation. Equipped with Sykes-Fairbairn commando daggers, a new Heckler & Koch VP70 handgun, and a new partner—the daughter of his old friend Felix Leiter—Bond faces the full force of SPECTRE’s renewed power.
First publish date: February 1985
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: John Gardner
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