Icebreaker

In 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.

Thriller writer John Gardner (1926-2007) wrote, as did ian Fleming, fourteen Bond novels (1981 to 1996). In all, Gardner had fifty-five novels to his credit—many of them bestsellers (his novel Maestro was a New York Times Notable Book of the year). His other novels include the Boysie Oakes series and the Sherlock Holmes Moriarty pastiches. John Gardner died in 2007. John was a highly respected and admired member of the Bond family, and he will be greatly missed.