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Nobody Lives for Ever

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Nobody Lives for Ever

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the mid-80s and a British spy with a license to kill. The fifth of John Gardner‘s James Bond novels, and what many argue was his best, Nobody Lives for Ever hit shelves between Roger Moore‘s last role as the spy in A View to a Kill and before audiences got their first look at Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights. That timing allows one to play a little with who you see cast in this version of James Bond. While absurd in places (what Bond isn’t?), the novel offers a hell of an intriguing premise by making Bond the hunted when the dying head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. puts an open bounty out for the spy’s head.

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Nightmare in Pink

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Nightmare in Pink

Throwback Tuesday takes us back nearly 60 years to John D. MacDonald‘s second Travis McGee novel. While doing a bit of sleuthing for an old army buddy, the salvage consultant will get into a case which he will lose himself both in the arms of a beautiful young woman and the grips of a dark conspiracy. Out of his element, and working in the big city, McGee looks into money left behind to Mike’s younger sister Nina after the death of her fiancé. There’s no rational explanation for the large sum of money and Nina fears what he might have gotten involved in.

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