1st Edition 1981. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page in Frankfurt during the year of publication. A new James Bond adventure. John Edmund Gardner (1926-2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist. He is probably best known for his continuation of Ian Fleming's James Bond series of spy thrillers, of which he wrote fourteen original James Bond novels, and the novel versions of two Bond films. . Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. Pages lightly age toned. The wrapper is very good++ and bright.