John Gardner

...an original story). In 1981, the James Bond book series was revived, with new novels written by John Gardner . In 1996, John Gardner retired from writing Bond books, and Raymond Benson quickly replaced him. Benson is the first American...

In this article: Ian Fleming Publications, James Bond, John Pearson, Raymond Benson, James Bond, Casino Royale, Sebastian Faulks, High Time to Kill, and Colonel Sun

Role of Honour (published in American editions as Role of Honor), first published in 1984 , was the fourth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first...

In this article: James Bond, Role of Honour, Erewhon, CIA, and Glidrose Publications

John Edmund Gardner (November 20, 1926 - August 3, 2007 ) was an English spy novelist, most notably for the James Bond series. Gardner was born in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. He graduated from St. John's College , Cambridge and did...

In this article: John Edmund Gardner, James Bond, Bond films, St. John's College, Glidrose Publications, Church of England, Cancer, and Heart failure

...of the original story or you can take them as something entirely different." The phenomenon is not new. Several authors, notably John Gardner, have continued to breathe life into James Bond since the 1964 death of Ian Fleming, the most...

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The Liquidator (1964) was the first novel written by John Gardner and the first novel in his Boysie Oakes series. After publishing his autobiographical account of alcoholism Spin the Bottle, Gardner decided to write a novel about...

In this article: Boysie Oakes, The Liquidator, Rod Taylor, Hash, James Bond, Ian Fleming, and MGM

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The English writer John Gardner, who died last year at the age of 80, served in the Royal Marines during World War II, spent seven years as a Church of England priest, and then decided he'd rather write spy novels. He began with comic novels...

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...Content Subscription with the The Scotsman site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. FROM JOHN GARDNER, WHO wrote more James Bond novels than Ian Fleming, the least you can expect is an action-packed...

In this article: London, James Bond, Ian Fleming, and Gangs of New York

John Gardner, a prolific British thriller writer who wrote more novels about Bond James Bond than Ian Fleming did, died on Aug. 3 after collapsing near his home in Basingstoke, England. He was 80. The cause was heart failure, said his...

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John Gardner, 80, a British novelist who had been a magician, a clergyman and a Royal Marine before giving new literary life to one of fiction's most famous secret agents, the legendary James Bond, died Aug. 3 in Basingstoke, England. The...

In this article: James Bond, Ian Fleming, Sherlock Holmes, World War II, Daily Mail, Cambridge University, Royal Navy, Church of England, and Boysie Oakes