John Edmund Gardner

John Edmund Gardner (born November 20, 1926 in North East England , † August 3, 2007 in Basingstoke , Great Britain ) was a British writer and in particular the author of thrillers.

Life

During the Second World War he served in the Air Force as early as 1943, at the age of 17, and was drafted into the Royal Navy for a few months in 1944. He later became a priest and worked as a vicar in Eversham. After seven years, he served as a chaplain in the Royal Air Force. In 1959 he wrote his first book. From 1959 to 1964 he was active as a journalist as a theater critic.

Gardner was married twice. The first marriage, which lasted from 1952 to 1997, had three children; In 2004 Gardner married an old childhood friend.

Gardner became internationally known when he succeeded Ian Fleming as the official James Bond author . In October 1980, his Bond authorship was announced to the public. In May of the following year, he published Countdown for Eternity, his first novel in the series. In total, he wrote fourteen James Bond novels between 1981 and 1996, not all of which were translated into German. He wrote the novel versions for the scripts for the films GoldenEye and License to Kill .

Works

Boysie Oakes Romane (novel)

• The Liquidator (1964)
• Understrike (1965)
• Amber Nine (1966)
• Madrigal (1967)
• Founder Member (1969)
• The Airline Pirates aka Air Apparent (1970)
• Traitor's Exit (1970)
• Killer for a Song (1976)

Derek Torry Romane (novel)

• A Complete State of Death (1969)
• Corner Men (1974)

Professor Moriarty Romane (novel)

• Return of Moriarty (1974)
• Revenge of Moriarty (1975)
• Moriarty (2008)

Herbie Kruger Romane (novel)

• Nostradamus Traitor (1979)
• Garden of Weapons (1980)
• Quiet Dogs (1982)
• Maestro (1993)
• Confessor (1995)

James Bond novels (novel)

• License Renewed ("Countdown for Eternity", "Core Meltdown" 1981)
• For Special Services ("Wait a minute, Mr. Bond", "Der Kunstsammler" 1982)
• Icebreaker ("Operation Eisbrecher", "Eisbrecher" 1983)
• Role of Honor ("The Honor of Mr. Bond", "A Question of Honor" 1984)
• Nobody Lives Forever (" Nobody Lives Forever ", "Nobody Lives Forever" 1986)
• No Deals Mr. Bond ("Nothing works anymore, Mr. Bond", "The game is over" 1987)
• Scorpius ("Scorpius", 1988)
• Win, Lose or Die ("Win or Die, Mr. Bond", "Fleet Maneuver" 1989)
• License to Kill ("License to kill", 1989) - novel version of the script
• Brokenclaw ("Go to Hell, Mr. Bond", "Operation Jericho" 1990)
• The Man From Barbarossa ("The Man from Barbarossa", 1991)
• Death is Forever (1992)
• Never Send Flowers (1993)
• Seafire (1994)
• GoldenEye ("GoldenEye", 1995) - novel version of the script
• Cold or "Cold Fall" (1996)

The Railton family Romane (novel)

• Secret Generations (1985)
• The Secret Houses (1988)
• The Secret Families (1989)

Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford Romane (novel)

• Bottled Spider (2002)
• The Streets of Town (2003)
• Angels Dining at the Ritz (2004)
• Troubled Midnight (2005)
• No Human Enemy (2007)

Other works

• Hideaway (1968) - collection of short stories
• The Censor (1970)
• Every Night's a Bullfight (1971)
• Assassination File (1974) - Collection of short stories
• To Run a Little Faster (1976)
• The Werewolf Trace (1977)
• The Dancing Dodo (1978)
• Golgotha ​​(1980)
• Garden of Weapons (1980)
• The Director (1982)
• Flamingo (1983)
• Day of Absolution (2001)

Web links

• Literature by and about John Edmund Gardner in the catalog of the German National Library
• John Edmund Gardner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Homepage of John Gardner (English)
• "John Gardner: An Alcoholic Carries On Bond"
• James Bond continuation author John Gardner dies aged 80. August 6, 2007(English, obituary with extensive bio / bibliographical information on MI6).