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    Death is Forever
    Death is Forever
    Death is Forever
    Audiobook8 hours

    Death is Forever

    Written by John Gardner

    Narrated by Simon Vance

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    About this audiobook

    The Cold War is over. After two British agents die under mysterious and strangely old-fashioned circumstances in Germany, Bond is paired up with beautiful CIA agent “Easy” St John. He’s been assigned to track down the surviving members of “Cabal,” a Cold War-era intelligence network that received a mysterious and unauthorized signal to disband.

    It’s not long before Bond and Easy find themselves playing a life-or-death game as they try to figure out who they can trust. All the while, Cabal agents are dying one by one.…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 27, 2015
    ISBN9781511306805
    Death is Forever
    Author

    John Gardner

    John Gardner (1933–1982) was born in Batavia, New York. His critically acclaimed books include the novels Grendel, The Sunlight Dialogues, and October Light, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as several works of nonfiction and criticism such as On Becoming a Novelist. He was also a professor of medieval literature and a pioneering creative writing teacher whose students included Raymond Carver and Charles Johnson.

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      Death Is Forever (1992) takes its title from a line in Diamonds Are Forever where Bond muses on death's permanency after he kills an organized crime assassin aboard the Queen Mary. "Nothing is forever except what you did to me," Bond imagines the dead man says to him. At the conclusion of the book, Bond segues into the title with the realization that, "Death is forever. But so are diamonds." Gardner's novel, however, isn't connected to Diamonds Are Foreverin any way, nor does the title have much thematic relevance. Hell, almost any bond novel could be titled Death Is Forever. Like many of Gardner's later Bond books, the story is just a long series of double-crosses and false identities, none tightly woven or intriguing. There's a depressing sense throughout Death Is Forever that Gardner is making it up as he goes, and that he isn't much invested in the book.The novel does have political interest, as it is the first Bond book published after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Gardner addresses that in the plot, but seems to ignore its implications to backtrack to a standard "evil commie" story. A former Stasi agent and lapboy to "Uncle Joe" Stalin (no kidding, that's what he calls Stalin) named Wolfgang Weisen—a.k.a. "The Poison Dwarf," even though he isn't short nor is he dangerous when ingested—has started a campaign take out the agents of CABAL, an underground Western operation in the former East Germany. Bond gets sent in to find out why the agents of CABAL, who have gone into hiding, are dropping dead from old-fashioned Cold War murder methods. Bond, accompanied by a very forgettable love interest from the CIA named Easy St. John, inserts himself among the CABAL survivors, but can he trust anyone? Yes, the requisite fake-outs follow, but none of it is particularly griping until some action in Venice and the final race to stop Weisen from blowing up the newly constructed Channel Tunnel with the world's leaders trapped inside it. Weisen meets a pleasing graphic death, at least. The "spider sandwich" murder tactic is vividly icky, but Fleming would have gotten much more mileage out of it. Otherwise, this is a file-it-and-forget-it novel from Gardner.

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