For Special Services (1982)
The seventeenth James Bond novel (third continuation novel, and second of fourteen by John Gardner).
Author
Afterword
Publication History
First Editions
- London: Jonathan Cape.
- New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan.
Later British Hardbacks
- London: Swordfish, 2011. ISBN 978-0-85782-046-4
Reviews
- Joe McDermott, Arizona Daily Star, 27 June 1982, Newsbank LIT 2:G1.
- Best Sellers, July 1982, p. 136.
- Booklist, 1 March 1982, p. 801.
- Books and Bookmen, November 1982, p. 24.
- British Book News, February 1983, p. 120.
- Alice Cromie, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 1982, p. 7/4.
- Randy Shipp, “Espionage Thrillers: Disappointing 007 Plus Good Reads,” Christian Science Monitor, 25 August 1982, p. 15.
- Michael J. Himowitz, “Blofeld Is Back — and Bond's Got Him,” Denver Post, 27 June 1982, Newsbank LIT 2:G2.
- M. R. Aig (Associated Press), “Gardner Revives Bond in ‘Special Services’,” Fargo Forum, 13 June 1982, Newsbank LIT 2:G3.
- Kirkus Reviews, 1 March 1982, pp. 303–304.
- Melanie Axel-Lute, Library Journal, 1 May 1982, p. 908.
- Los Angeles Times, 6 June 1982, Book Review, p. 13.
- R. W. Winks, New Republic, 23 June 1982, p. 38.
- Lewis Jones, New Statesman, 24 September 1982, p. 30.
- Stanley Ellin, “Was the Ice Cream Doped or Dopey?,” New York Times Book Review, 30 May 1982, p. 19.
- Observer, 19 September 1982, p. 32.
- People Weekly, 24 May 1982, p. 16.
- Publishers Weekly, 19 March 1982, p. 55.
- Publishers Weekly, 11 February 1983, p. 65.
- Punch, 27 October 1982, p. 694.
- Carol Saunders, School Library Journal, October 1982, p. 169.
- John Coleman, “Foul Means and Fouller,” Sunday Times, 26 September 1982, p. 32.
- Time, 5 July 1982, p. 66.
- Kingsley Amis, “Double-Low-Tar 7, Licence to Underkill,” Times Literary Supplement, 17 September 1982, p. 993.
- Jan Land, Tulsa World, 4 July 1982, Newsbank LIT 10:D6.