After COLONEL SUN (1968) by Kingsley Amis, John Gardner was the next writer to be asked to write further adventures of James Bond. He wrote, like Fleming, fourteen Bond books, plus novelisations of the films GOLDENEYE and LICENCE TO KILL, from 1981 to 1996. Before becoming an author of fiction in the early 1960s John Gardner was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer, a journalist and, for a short time, a priest in the Church of England. 'Probably the biggest mistake I ever made,' he says. 'I confused the desire to please my father with a vocation which I soon found I did not have.'
In all, Gardner had fifty-five novels to his credit - many of them bestsellers. John Gardner died in 2007.
Two arthritic, old spooks coincidentally meet up in a small Spanish town and their conversation brings back memories they would prefer to forget. Sunday lunch with an active Bulgarian spy takes Neil back to his past but he struggles with the history of his life. Does our past catch up with us? Can we always tell reality from dreaming? So much smoke and mirrors that neither knows which side of the mirror they are now on. Does the anxiety and fear ever go? And rule number one, trust no one. Nothing is as it seems. Except the loneliness.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" Lewis Carroll
Title : The Conversation
EAN : 9780463797419
Publisher : John Gardner
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