No Deals, Mr Bond

Written by John Gardner

Narrated by Simon Vance

Two female agents of Operation Cream Cake—double agents and honey traps against the KGB—are murdered. Bond must find the others and conduct them to safety before they meet a similar fate.

In a race against time, Bond travels to Ireland and the KGB is soon on the scene. But all is not as it seems and soon Bond finds he needs all his wits to negotiate a labyrinth of double-crossing that is to lead him to a bewildering showdown in a remote corner of the Kowloon province of Hong Kong, where, weaponless, he is hunted by four assassins.

No Deals, Mr Bond is the sixth in the bestselling series created by John Gardner, and one of the most original and unpredictable.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Oct 13, 2015
• ISBN: 9781511306454

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 several 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 for No Deals, Mr Bond

[johnfishlock · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Pretty decent.

[leischen_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Merely OK espionage adventure. Bond is assigned to protect former agents of a British operation. Gardner gives us a decent secret agent thriller, but the character merely shares a name with Fleming's creation. Gardner's Bond has none of the characterization associated with the more famous version, whether in Fleming's books or the film series. Good book if you're looking for a thriller, but not if you're the mood for classic Bond.