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Role of Honour is the fourth spy novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. The novel was published in 1984 by Jonathan Cape.
After receiving a large inheritance, Bond is accused of improprieties and dishonorably dismissed from M16. Disgusted with his former employers, Bond places his services on the open market, where he later attracts the attention of representatives of SPECTRE who are quite willing to put their one-time enemy on their payroll. But the whole thing was a hoax, just a plan to get Bond inside the enemy's organization.
Prior to joining up, Bond spends a month in Monte Carlo with Miss "Percy" Proud, a CIA agent who teaches him everything she knows about programming languages and computers in general. This background allows Bond to attract Jay Autem Holy, an agent of SPECTRE who left The Pentagon, faked his death, and later started a computer game company that creates simulations based on real-life battles and wars.
Proving his worth to SPECTRE, Bond becomes involved in a plot to destabilise the Soviet Union and USA, by forcing them to rid the world of their nuclear weapons.
But what SPECTRE leaders Tamil Rahani and Dr. Jay Autem Holy suspect, but never fully realise is that Bond's resignation is false and along with Bond, the British Secret Service (M16) plays a vital role in foiling SPECTRE.
- James Bond.
- M.
- Bill Tanner.
- Q.
- Miss "Percy" Proud.
- Dr. Jay Autem Holy.
- Tamil Rhani.
- General Rolling Jow Zwingli
- Freddie Fortune.
- Cindy Chalmer
- Peter Amadeus.
| General Information: |
| - Author: | John Gardner. |
| - Cover artist: | Trevor Scobie. |
| - Original language: | English. |
| - Genre: | Spy novel. |
| - Publisher: | Jonathan Cape. |
| - Publication date: | 1984. |
| - Print: | Hardcover and paperback. |
| - Pages: | 224 pp. (first edition). |
| - Preceded by: | Icebreaker (by John Gardner). |
| - Followed by: | Nobody Lives For Ever (by John Gardner). |
| Plot: |
Prior to joining up, Bond spends a month in Monte Carlo with Miss "Percy" Proud, a CIA agent who teaches him everything she knows about programming languages and computers in general. This background allows Bond to attract Jay Autem Holy, an agent of SPECTRE who left The Pentagon, faked his death, and later started a computer game company that creates simulations based on real-life battles and wars.
Proving his worth to SPECTRE, Bond becomes involved in a plot to destabilise the Soviet Union and USA, by forcing them to rid the world of their nuclear weapons.
But what SPECTRE leaders Tamil Rahani and Dr. Jay Autem Holy suspect, but never fully realise is that Bond's resignation is false and along with Bond, the British Secret Service (M16) plays a vital role in foiling SPECTRE.
| Characters: |
- James Bond.
- M.
- Bill Tanner.
- Q.
- Miss "Percy" Proud.
- Dr. Jay Autem Holy.
- Tamil Rhani.
- General Rolling Jow Zwingli
- Freddie Fortune.
- Cindy Chalmer
- Peter Amadeus.
