On leave from the British Security Service, Laura March is mysteriously murdered in Switzerland with a poison pellet shot from a powerful air rifle. James Bond and Swiss agent Fredericka Flicka von Grusse are immediately called in to investigate. While at Laura's funeral, Bond tices among the wreaths a perfect white rose, its petals tipped blood-red and an ambiguous te wired to the stem. His investigation reveals an identical rose and te at the funerals of four high-profile personalities, all assassinated within a week. With group claiming responsibility for the deaths, Bond focuses on Laura's case. He uncovers her recently dissolved love affair with the world-famous actor David Dragonpol, w an eccentric collector of theater memorabilia living in a castle on the Rhine. So Bond and Flicka go undercover to search the castle for clues, and in the garden find roses just like the ones at each of the funerals. Their startling discovery leads to a harrowing manhunt in which the hidden identity of the serial killer is revealed.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pegasus Books
ISBN-10
1605989037
ISBN-13
9781605989037
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216376187
Product Key Features
Author
John Gardner
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
New York
Author Biography
John Gardner wrote, like Ian Fleming, fourteen James Bond novels (1981 to 1996). In all Gardner had fifty-five novels to his credit-many of them bestsellers (his novel Maestro was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year). John Gardner died in 2007. Visit his estate's website at www.john-gardner.com.
Date of Publication
16/11/2015
Country of Publication
United States
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