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John Gardner’s last Bond novel—titled Cold in the UK and Cold Fall in the US—was published in 1996. It marked the end of the Gardner era.

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A five-year search for terrorists leads James Bond into a deadly nest of doomsday killers.

The night that Flight 229 blew apart on landing at Washington’s Dulles Airport, and the almost four hundred passengers aboard were killed, a mission began that would become an obsession of James Bond.

Who was responsible for destroy the British-owned aircraft? Was it a straight-forward act of terrorism, an assassination aimed at only one person, or a move to put the airline out of business? For Bond the search for answers has a personal meaning: his former lover and old friend Principessa Sukie Tempesta is listed as one of the ill-fated passengers.

In this white-knuckle 007 thriller, John Gardner sends master spy James Bond on the most complex and demanding assignments of his career. Across the continents and through ever-changing labyrinths of evil, bond follows the traces of clues into the center of an organization more deadly than any terrorist army—a fanatical society code-named Cold, Children of the Last Days. What he finds there could very well spell his own last days.

Once again, John Gardner has propelled James Bond squarely into the path of high adventure, danger, and nonstop excitement.

-Putnam dust jacket

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The hotel looked out, through a small screen of trees, onto the huge parking lots that spread in front of the main terminal of Dulles—a glass and concrete edifice which stands like some modern rendition of a sixteenth-century canopied structure erected for a king on the verge of a battlefield. The romance of travel was now long gone, Bond thought. In its place there was only a wasteland of parking lots, fast-food joints and waiting, struggling passengers.

As he turned back into the lobby, three minibuses containing the NTSB, FAA and other teams who were coming in from the crash site pulled up in front of the hotel. As the occupants passed by, he saw the same look in their eyes: a look which was full of shock, disgust, and not a little anguish.

These were the people who had seen the wreckage, close up and very personal, and it showed in the way they walked and in their faces. For a second, Bond envisaged the last moments on that aircraft as it flared and touched down bringing relief that the long journey was over. Then the noise and the fireballs exploding within the cabin, searing lungs and consuming bodies. He prayed that id had been quick for all of them.

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- Chapter 3, Cold

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Book One
Cold Front 1990

1. Disaster
2. Bait?
3. A Chill Down the Spine
4. Voice Mail
5. Conjunction
6. Cold Comfort
7. A Judas Kiss?
8. At the Villa Tempesta
9. If You Can’t Beat ’em
10. Kidnap
11. Graveyard
12. The High Road
13. Water Carnival
14. Interlude

15. A Voice From the Past
16. Need-to-Know
17. In Room 504
18. The Unraveling
19. Lazarus
20. A Close Call
21. Antifreeze
22. Die Like a Gentleman
23. Wedding Bells
24. A Day of Days
25. Clay Pigeon
26. Facing the Music

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    The events of
    Cold
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    14 to 31 March 1990
    and
    4 to 14 November 1994

    Dates calculated by Walter von Tagen III

    Walter’s Chronological Remarks

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    “http://forums.commanderbond.net/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=34” target=_blank> CBn’s John Gardner Forums

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    “http://www.bondian.com/books/16570823.html” target=_blank> Cold
    Publication History
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    “http://www.klast.net/bond/novgard.html” target=blank> Gardner Books:
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    “http://www.007forever.com/literaryintrigues007/63booksynopsesandreviews/coldfall.htm” target=_blank> 007Forever Review of
    Cold

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    “http://www.007forever.com/literaryintrigues007/literaryfaq/whatisthecontroversysurroundingjohngardner%60sbondnovelcoldfall.htm” target=blank> What is the controversy surrounding John Gardner’s Bond novel Cold Fall?
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