James Bond is transferred to sea duty aboard the HMS Illustrious to guard the British, Soviet, and American admirals on board, only to have the aircraft carrier captured by terroristsFortunately for Gardner, dyed-in-the wool James Bond fans may be disposed to overlook the lack of credibility and characterization in this latest thriller featuring the superspy. The leaders of Britain, Russia and the U.S. are planning a top-secret summit aboard HMS Invincible . We never learn what they want to talk about, but we do know that BAST (Brotherhood of Anarchy and Secret Terror) is up to some high-level nastiness. Alerted to the threat, British Intelligence sends James Bond to protect the ''heads of state.'' Promoted to captain, Bond is trained on Harrier jump-jets, and narrowly escapes death when a Sidewinder missile intercepts his flight path. Human menaces include ''the Cat,'' a mysterious female terrorist, and ''the Viper,'' head of BAST. A lot of huffing, puffing, padding (''Bond has not shown all his cards'') and sloppy writing (''the first kind of ship of her type'') occur before a limp confrontation that takes place inside the Rock of Gibraltar, with chief villain Bassam Baradj, inanely ''born plain Robert Besavitsky, in the old Hell's Kitchen area of New York.''

Ian Fleming's Master Spy James Bond In Win, Lose Or Die (g K Hall Large Print Book Series)

John E Gardner

Thorndike Press

G.K. Hall large print book series, Boston, Mass, Massachusetts, 1990

Large Print ed, Boston, MA, USA, 1990, ©1989

United States, United States of America

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Surrounded by enemies in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, James Bond joins forces with the beautiful Russian naval attache to confront and destroy the terrorists who have control of the world

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