James Bond in Icebreaker

by John Gardner

Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1983

About the author

Before coming an author of fiction in the early 1960s, John Gardner was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer and a journalist. In all, Gardner has fifty-four novels to his credit, including Maestro, which was the New York Times book of the year. He was also invited by Ian Fleming’s literary copyright holders to write a series of continuation James Bond novels, which proved to be so successful that instead of the contracted three books he went on to publish some fourteen titles, including Licence Renewed and Icebreaker.

Having lived in the Republic of Ireland, the United States and the UK, John Gardner sadly died in August of 2007 having just completed his third novel in the Moriarty trilogy, Conan Doyle’s eponymous villain of the Sherlock Holmes series.

Reviews

[James Reyome · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best of the Gardner 007 revivals so far. There’s enough double and triple crosses to keep your head spinning and at some points even Bond seems confused. But it’s a terrific, taut tale, brilliantly told. Why this hasn’t been filmed, I have no idea.