ROLE OF HONOUR BY: JOHN GARDNER

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A) CONDITION BOOK: NEAR FINE - HARD BOUND

B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD - NOT PRICE CLIPPED [$7.95] BRODART

C) FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING - JONATHAN CAPE 1984

D) NOTE: CAPE'S EFFORT TO EXTEND THE MASSIVE POPULARITY OF FLEMING'S JAMES BOND AFTER THE ORIGINAL AUTHORS [FLEMING] DEATH. DAMAGED TO DUST JACKET AT HINGES AND CREASE. 222 PAGES.

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Role of Honour, first published in 1984, was the fourth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.^[1] Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Putnam.

After receiving a large inheritance, James Bond 007 is accused of improprieties and drummed out of the British Secret Service. Disgusted with his former employers, Bond places his services on the open market, where he later attracts the attention of representatives of SPECTRE who are quite willing to put their one-time enemy on their payroll. But the whole thing was a hoax, just a plan to get Bond inside the enemy's organization.

Prior to joining up, Bond spends a month in Monte Carlo with Miss 'Percy' Proud, a CIA agent who teaches him everything she knows about programming languages and computers in general. This background allows Bond to attract Jay Autem Holy, an agent of SPECTRE who left the Pentagon, faked his death, and later started a computer game company that creates simulations based on real-life battles and wars.

Bond's allegiance to SPECTRE is periodically questioned throughout the novel, even at one point going so far as to send Bond to a terrorist training camp (known as "Erewhon") to see if he has 'the right stuff'. Proving his worth, Bond becomes involved in a plot to destabilise the Soviet Union and the United States, by forcing them to rid the world of their nuclear weapons.

What SPECTRE leaders Tamil Rahani and Dr. Jay Autem Holy suspect, but never fully realise is that Bond's resignation is false. Along with Bond, the Secret Service plays a vital role in foiling SPECTRE; however, Rahani, the current leader of SPECTRE is able to escape Bond's clutches by parachuting out of an airship over Switzerland.

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ROLE OF HONOUR BY: JOHN GARDNER

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