SeaFire

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SeaFire
Seafire.jpg
First UK Hardback cover
Author John Gardner
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Series James Bond
Genre Spy fiction
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date
August 1994
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
ISBN 0-399-13938-9
OCLC 30510541
823/.914 20
LC Class PR6057.A63 S37 1994

SeaFire, first published in 1994, was the fourteenth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including Gardner's novelization of Licence to Kill ). Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.

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Plot summary

With the help of his latest girlfriend Flicka von Grüsse, James goes after billionaire Sir Maxwell Tarn, who thinks he's the next Hitler. Captain Bond now works for MicroGlobe One rather than an ill M whom he visits to cheer up and keep informed of the plot. The global trail takes 007 to Puerto Rico via Spain, Israel and Germany.

During the story, Bond proposes to Flicka. An old friend reappears to aid James and split up this spy twosome.

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