Carte Blanche
“The face of war is changing.The other side doesn't play by the rules much anymore.There’s thinking, in some circles,that we need to play by a different set of rules too …” James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran of the Afghan war, has been recruited to a new organization....
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“The face of war is changing.The other side doesn't play by the rules much anymore.There’s thinking, in some circles,that we need to play by a different set of rules too …” James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran of the Afghan war, has been recruited to a new organization. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of MI5, MI6 and the Ministry of Defense, its very existence deniable. Its aim: To protect the Realm, by any means necessary.A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: Casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected.And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfill his mission . . . The new thriller by Master of the Mind GameJEFFERY DEAVERfeaturing JAMES BOND as you’ve never seen him before.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B004G8QTMK
Publish date: June 13th 2011
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 404
Edition language: English
James Bond finds a relaunch in Carte Blanche. This is not your father’s James Bond. This version uses spy cell phone apps and made his bones in military intelligence in Afghanistan. Early in Bond’s career, he is working in a special branch of Britain’s national security where he is given carte blanc...
It gets off to a great start and might even make you believe that literary Bond has been properly rebooted like the films. Unfortunately, it's too long by seriously half and tries to do too much. Fleming's novels were as smooth as a well-mixed Vesper martini - and this novel has significantly more...
I guess I should start this review with a few confessions. First of all, I think it's about 30 years since I last read a James Bond novel. And secondly, it has been years since I watched a James Bond movie too.I am however a great fan of Jeffrey Deaver's books and haven't missed a new release in yea...
Carte Blanche is the first James Bond novel I read. I know some of the Bond movies and I think in average they are good entertainment but nothing outstanding. So as a Deaver fan, I came to reading a Bond novel without too much knowledge about the character’s details and history.Deaver managed to del...
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