first edition Cloth
1997 · London
by Benson, Raymond
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0340684488 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Raymond Benson's first James Bond novel, picking up where Ian Fleming and John Gardner left off. It is set mostly in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China, involving a wealthy British shipping magnate. Bond is first alerted to the case after a chain of events that are topped by a nuclear blast going off in the Australian outback. 007 is sent to Hong Kong to figure out the cause of these events; 8vo ; x, 257, [5] pages . (Inventory #: 22441)