Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an equally dangerous and treacherous alliance of agents from the CIA, the KGB and Israel's Mossad. The team dubbed 'Icebreaker' waste no time double crossing each other, as they try to root out the leader of the murderous National Socialist Action Army, Count Konrad von Gloda, a one time SS officer, who now perceives himself as the New Adolf Hitler.
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John (Champlin) Gardner (1933-1982) was born in Batavia, a small town near Rochester, New York State. His father was a farmer and his mother an English teacher. He studied at DePauw University from 1951, graduated from Washington University, St Louis, in 1955 and received a PhD in classical and medieval literature from Iowa State University in 1958. From 1958 he taught at Oberlin College, Chico State College, California, San Francisco State College and Southern Illinois University. From 1978 he was head of the creative writing course at the State University of New York, Binghampton. As well as novels like The Wreckage of Agathon, The Sunlight Dialogues, Freddy's Book and Micklesson's Ghosts, he published modern English versions of medieval poetry and scholarly works on medieval literature. He died in a motor cycle accident. John Gardner began his career as a novelist in 1964, with 'The Liquidator', featuring the character Boysie Oakes. In 1981, Gardner was asked to revive Ian Fleming's James Bond series of novels. Gardner wrote fourteen James Bond novels, and the novelizations of two Bond films, License to Kill and Golden Eye.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A strange compromise between Fleming and the Bond films,
By "tmershats" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Icebreaker (Hardcover)
John Gardner's Bond books, if "Icebreaker" is any indication, aim for a compromise between the classiness of Ian Fleming's stories and the bombast of the film series. The plot is relatively straightforward, as 007 travels to the Finland/Soviet border to track down an international neo-Nazi conspiracy, without any of the tired, obligatory globetrotting of the latter-day films. "Icebreaker's" cartoon-like villain, however, seems reminiscent more of the movies than the Fleming novels, and the story climaxes with the big explosions required of the films as well. Gardner's own contribution to this mix is the conflicting loyalties among the characters. Agents turn out to be double-agents, then triple-agents, as someone turns traitor in almost every chapter. The novel as a whole, thus, is an uneasy combination of these three elements that reads quickly and enjoyably, but it's kind of hard to recognize James Bond in there.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another Solid Bond Book By Gardner,
By jeu8478 "jeu8478" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Icebreaker (Ian Fleming's James Bond) (Paperback)
As John Gardner's third Bond novel, Icebreaker shows an increasing understanding of the character. The novel shows a good deal of creativity as far as situations and the Neo-Nazi villains are concerned, and keeps the reader guessing as to who on Bond's team are actually on his side, especially as the book progresses. All in all, a nice adventure for Bond, and a nice time for any Bond fan.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The most original 007 villans since Spectre,
This review is from: Icebreaker (James Bond) (Hardcover)
This was by far the best Gardner 007 novel. This had all the gadgets and women that make James Bond James Bond. This would have made a great movie if we were still dealing with the Cold War 007. Also The N.S.A.A. was a great villian for Bond.
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