signed first edition Hardcover
1997 · London
by Benson, Raymond
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0340684488 . A very beautiful first edition/first printing in unread Very Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author Raymond Benson on the title page; 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; (truncated)