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...SPECIAL SERVICES by John Gardner Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 298 pages...
...second appearance with British Thriller Writer John Gardner as his author, James Bond remains irresistible to women and, considering his advancing age, pretty agile outside the boudoir...
...cream spiked with a mind-bending drug. Bond and the luscious daughter of an old colleague man age to penetrate the organization's 150-sq.-mi. Texas ranch headquarters, only to face death at the hands of killer ants, man-eating pythons and other unfriendlies. At times, Gardner's stolid prose style makes one long for Ian Fleming's insouciance. Still, it is good to watch England's last knight jousting with villains who make the Falkland Islands seem 2 million miles from...
...leaders are out of fashion today. They are either incompetent or too smart. The few who aren't too weak are too strong. We have a national attitude of ambivalence and skepticism. We're for a sense of purpose, but against any particular direction. I like John Gardner's story of the wife who read the fortune-telling card her husband got from a penny weighing machine. 'You are a leader,' she read, 'with a magnetic personality and strong character-intelligent, witty and attractive to the opposite sex.' Then she turned the card...
Midnight in the big bad city. Down by the docks the mood was as warm and moist and treacherous as Ava Gardner's parted lips, and the moonless sky was swarming with metaphors. I was prowling those mean streets, not looking for trouble. It knew where to find...