13 best-selling adventure books like License Renewed (John Gardner's Bond, #1) by John Gardner

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License Renewed (John Gardner's Bond, #1)

By: John Gardner

3.52

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

In License Renewed, the most famous secret agent in the world pits his nerve and cunning against a …

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1. Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

By: Ian Fleming

3.64

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with … read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Ir ļoti skumji mazgāt ve­ļu, ja tajā nav neviena vīrieša krekla."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

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2. You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

By: Ian Fleming

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Ian Fleming’s twelfth James Bond novel. The tragic end to James Bond’s last mission – courtesy o… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face"

-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

"I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite…"

-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

"007: Be an angle, Penny, and ring down to Mary and tell her she's got to get out of whatever she's doing tonight. I'm taking her out to dinner. Scotts. Tell her we'll have our first roast grouse of t…"

-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

"He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out tho…"

-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

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3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)

By: Ian Fleming

3.97

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Description: A Lancia Spyder with its hood down tore past him, cut in cheekily across his bonnet an… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"The World Is Not Enough"

-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)

"When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference"

-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)

"She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me."

-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)

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4. Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

By: Ian Fleming

3.63

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

How is this for an evocative passage from the second Bond novel? "Her hair was black and fell to… read more

Similar categories in Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2) book and John Gardner's License Renewed (John Gardner's Bond, #1)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
"Don't lose faith in your stars."

-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

"Hm,' said Bond. 'Bogeyman stuff."

-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

"Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve."

-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

"You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy."

-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

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5. From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

By: Ian Fleming

3.91

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel. James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintell… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

"Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

"The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

"Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

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6. Octopussy and the Living Daylights (James Bond, #14)

By: Ian Fleming

3.57

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note #1: this entry is for one of the editions that includes the fourth story, "007 in … read more

Similar categories in Ian Fleming's Octopussy and the Living Daylights (James Bond, #14) book and John Gardner's License Renewed (John Gardner's Bond, #1)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13) by Ian Fleming

7. The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13)

By: Ian Fleming

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The Man with the Golden Gun is the 13th novel written by Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional Briti… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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8. Zero Minus Ten

By: Raymond Benson

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

The clock is ticking for Hong Kong. On July 1, 1997, the British Crown Colony will be handed over t… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
Cover of The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond, #10) by Ian Fleming

9. The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond, #10)

By: Ian Fleming

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

'He was about six feet tall, slim and fit. The eyes in the lean , slightly tanned face were a very … read more

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  • espionage
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8) by Ian Fleming

10. For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)

By: Ian Fleming

3.66

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: this entry relates to the collection of short stories under the title of "For You… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone,…"

-Ian Fleming, For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)

11. The Man With the Red Tattoo (Raymond Benson's Bond, #6)

By: Raymond Benson

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In Tokyo, a fatal strain of West Nile virus has infected-and killed-the head of the world's largest… read more

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12. High Time to Kill (Raymond Benson's Bond, #3)

By: Raymond Benson

3.36

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this bestselling phenomenon, James Bond scales new heights of adventure--on one of the world's h… read more

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13. Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)

By: Ian Fleming

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his… read more

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Cover of Casino Royale (James Bond, #1) by Ian Fleming

14. Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

By: Ian Fleming

3.74

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to France to play in a high-stakes bac… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Mine’s Bond – James Bond."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

Cover of Moonraker (James Bond, #3) by Ian Fleming

15. Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

By: Ian Fleming

3.80

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

‘For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest w… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
"Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

16. Doctor No (James Bond, #6)

By: Ian Fleming

3.85

Format: None pages,

James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service… read more

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17. Doubleshot (James Bond, #4)

By: Raymond Benson

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Seeing double makes life twice as dangerous for James Bond -- when an organized crime group makes h… read more

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18. Never Dream of Dying (Raymond Benson's Bond, #5)

By: Raymond Benson

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

James Bond, 007, finally comes face to face with his most cunning nemesis-the enigmatic blind crimi… read more

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19. Thunderball (James Bond, #9)

By: Ian Fleming

4.34

Format: 168 pages,

"The girl looked him up and down. He had dark, rather cruel good looks and very clear, blue-grey ey… read more

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20. License Renewed (John Gardner's Bond, #1)

By: John Gardner

3.52

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

In License Renewed, the most famous secret agent in the world pits his nerve and cunning against a … read more

Similar categories in John Gardner's License Renewed (John Gardner's Bond, #1) book and John Gardner's License Renewed (John Gardner's Bond, #1)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • spy thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
Cover of Double or Nothing (Double O, #1) by Kim Sherwood

21. Double or Nothing (Double O, #1)

By: Kim Sherwood

3.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The start of a brand-new trilogy following MI6’s Double 0 agents with a license to kill, that blows… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime

14 must-read fiction books like License Renewed (John Gardner's Bond, #1) by John Gardner

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3.64

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You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

Ian Fleming

3.75

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3.97

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3.63

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3.78

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Raymond Chandler

3.95

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Len Deighton

3.93

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3.94

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