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The eleventh of John Gardner’s line of James Bond novels, a post Cold War spy thriller tying in with the German unification, was published in 1992.

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Death Is Forever reviewed
Daniel Dykes’ examines this John Gardner Adventure.

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The end of the Cold War spawns a fierce new villain, in John Gardner’s eleventh addition to the classic, best-selling James Bond series.

Now that the two Germanys have united, a joint British-American intelligence network in the old Eastern Bloc has disintegrated, to the dismay of SIS and the CIA. But their efforts to make renewed contact with the network, codenamed CABAL, fail when the two original case officers are killed under very suspicious circumstances before contacting their undercover agents.

Enter James Bond and his American counterpart, Easy St. John. Following leads left by the dead case officers, Bond and the aggressive Easy track down one of the agents, who dies on his way to a rendezvous with 007. Certain now that the entire network is marked for death, Bond and Easy race across Europe, hoping to save the others from the unknown killer, only to find that they too have become the targets of CABAL’s old enemy: Wolfgang Weisen, the shadowy onetime director of East Germany’s Security Service.

One the run since the destruction of the Berlin Wall, Weisen still maintains a following of loyal, highly train security officers with access to a wide range of sophisticated weaponry. By setting a trap for Bond, Weisen plans to “neutralize” the secret agent before undertaking his true mission: the destabilization of Western Europe through a singe, savage act.

Packed with harrowing chases, magnificent settings, and a dynamite finale, Death Is Forever is a rousing read by a master storyteller.

-Putnam dust jacket

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He was lifting the little brown triangle to his mouth when his eye caught something odd. For a second he imagined he was suffering from some kind of illusion. He held the sandwich a couple of feet away from his mouth and looked at it again. It was no illusion. The bread moved slightly, and, as he peered closer, he saw two tiny feelers reach out from the middle of the smoked salmon. A second later, the whole small body appeared.

He turned to see that Easy was about to bite into her sandwich. “No! Easy, donÕt!” His hand came up chopping lightly at her wrist. The triangle of food barely touched her teeth as if it fell from her hand.

“James! What the…?”

“I don’t know.” He was on his feet, slamming the cover back onto the dish, and, taking a fork, slowly prizing the two halves of his sandwich apart. Layered within the smoked salmon were what looked like tiny white pellets. Among the pellets, small eight-eight legged creatures had already begun to emerge. Though they were only newly hatched, Bond recognized them immediately. The poisonous Fiddleback spider is instantly identified by its unique shape. Even baby spiders have that violin outline which marks them for life, and these did not live long. Bond dropped the sandwich onto the carpet, slipped out of his right shoe and beat the bread, butter and salmon into the carpet. Then he did the same with the sandwich Easy had dropped.

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- Chapter 4, Death Is Forever

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