Win, Lose or Die
A James Bond thriller
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3.9 • 7 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
Official, original James Bond from a writer described by Len Deighton as a 'master storyteller'
When M receives word that a known terrorist organisation is planning to infiltrate and destroy a top-secret British Royal Navy aircraft carrier-based summit of world leaders, James Bond is returned to active duty in the Royal Navy. Promoted from Commander to Captain, Bond is expected to infiltrate the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible and identify potential sleeper agents.
As he struggles to complete his mission, a massive war game is being carried out between the American, British, and Soviet Navies. And when Bond gets caught up in a murder investigation the safety of the most powerful leaders on the planet hangs in the balance ...
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.''
