Death is Forever

Name: Death is Forever
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: John Gardner
ISBN: 9781511306805

Author: John Gardner

Series: James Bond (Original Series)

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 8 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 10/27/2015

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

The Cold War is over. After two British agents die under mysterious and strangely old-fashioned circumstances in Germany, Bond is paired up with beautiful CIA agent “Easy” St John. He’s been assigned to track down the surviving members of “Cabal,” a Cold War-era intelligence network that received a mysterious and unauthorized signal to disband.It’s not long before Bond and Easy find themselves playing a life-or-death game as they try to figure out who they can trust. All the while, Cabal agents are dying one by one.…

About John Gardner

John Gardner (1933-1982) was born in Batavia, New York. His critically acclaimed books include the novels Grendel, The Sunlight Dialogues, and October Light, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as works of nonfiction and criticism such as On Becoming a Novelist. He was also a professor of medieval literature and a pioneering creative writing teacher whose students included Raymond Carver and Charles Johnson.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carson on July 12, 2014

DEATH IS FOREVER.... good title, effective story with just enough twists. I continue to marvel at the research and details Gardner employs in his 007 novels and - from that vantage point - this is one of his better works. The characters are more engaging and I actually found myself tied up in the Ca......more

Goodreads review by Marco on August 18, 2013

Ouch! Yes I threw in the towel, 30 pages before the end. Have you ever read a book and you just didn't care how it resolves. I have paid John Gardner a lot of compliments in the past as I realize he was taking up the 007 mantle and seemed to be on a one a year contract. The book gets started with a......more

Goodreads review by John on May 07, 2017

Regardless where you fall, it's been universally acknowledged for good or ill that there is a disparity between the James Bond novels and the James Bond movies. This is the first James Bond novel that I have ever read that felt like it was the novelization of a James Bond movie.......more

Goodreads review by Brian on March 05, 2014

I give this book a better rating than the other Gardner books I have read. Just finishing icebreaker I was anticipating a multitude of double, triple and quadruple crosses, but fortunately that wasn't the case. The ending seemed a little anti climactic, but other than that a good book overall.......more

Goodreads review by Richard on April 07, 2022

For your eyes only: there are some minor spoilers ahead. Tread lightly, but it's still pretty safe. Death and James Bond go hand in hand. He used to say Live and Let Die, but that’s only because You Only Live Twice. Yet whether you Win, Lose or Die, it seems that Nobody Lives Forever – not except pos......more