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.
An Australian secret service agent, on secondment to the British, and her Irish partner discover a small red note book with some coded entries in the safe of a Brazilian political gangster they killed. The discovery sets off a chain of events that quickly catapults them in a terrifying and totally unexpected direction. But there are dark forces in Britain working against them forcing the British agents to team up with Mossad to unscramble the code and discover its deadly purpose. But the clock is ticking. Can they do it in time?
This work of fiction has turned into an undreamed of reality. Medical lies used as a political weapon to terrorise the major industrial countries.
The real events that have so sadly and predictably unfolded are shocking. The signs leading up to this attempted destruction of democracy were clear to be seen since part way through the last century. I just interpreted them. My fictional story is about what could have happened. Corporate domination and greed defeated by the application of common sense, logic, courage and scientific fact.
What has happened is abject, unfounded fear giving birth to nightmarish paranoia, all based on a lie and driven by a lust for dictatorial power. The politicians are well aware there is no better disguise than fear. They can hide any number of undemocratic moves behind fear. Fear used as a weapon of control on a population now too terrified to breathe the very air that gives them life. Fear that led entire populations to abandon hard-fought for freedoms and submit to slavery. By choice. All justifiable by the relentless government voice giving us all the same message - 'for our protection'. Protection from what? A mildly deadly disease that endless doctors and scientists are telling us is no worse than a bad flu. But people seem to prefer relentless propaganda, the lies. It gives them something to hide behind without having to think. It's on the television so it must be true. George Orwell got it right!
Título : The Money Virus
EAN : 9781005547400
Editorial : John Gardner
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