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For Special Services

by John Gardner · 1982

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Bond is back on secret loan to the United States Government and primed to confront an old and deadly adversary which now has a sinister new leader and a devastating operation underway. Armed with a pair of Sykes-Fairbairn commando daggers, a new Heckler & Koch VP70 handgun and a gorgeous new partner - the daughter of his old friend Felix Leiter - Bond experiences the full deadly force of SPECTRE's new power.

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"Just as enjoyable as the originals." —London Evening Standard

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adult
Length
medium · 295 pages

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