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[Qwerty]

If anyone's collecting...

http://cgi.ebay.com/...6958067022&rd=1

[DLibrasnow]

Excellent find Qwerty - though i notice its incorrectly identified as FOR SPECIAL SERVICES in the description.
I always thought ROLE OF HONOR was one of the most overlooked of the Gardner books, possibly because it was followed by fan favorite NOBODY LIVES FOREVER .
It was great to see SPECTRE back again and with an intriguinbg plot - using computers to knock out America's nuclear power. This novel arrived on the shelves in the same decade as the three-mile island incident and the Chernobyl disaster ( which happened two years after the publication of the book) so computers and nuclear power were both "hot topics" at that time.
I thought Rahani was a great well-drawn villain (it was good to see him rturn in NLF) and liked both the airship climax and the training camp sequences in Switzerland.
I'm sure it has not aged gracefully however - aren't the computers referred to as "micros" throughout?

[Jim]

Read it again a couple of weeks ago: seems pretty ancient (but oddly endearing) in its attitude to computers; quite fun as a historical document. John's pretty rude about Oxfordshire (I live in Oxfordshire, yer sod), the airship bit is fun, and contains a decent twist (bit of a rarity). Few too many villains doing not a huge amount and I'm not sure the new SPECTRE thing works that well, but it's decent enough. Definitely readable, but it's aged worse than many.

Not bidding for this though; don't like it that much.

[DLibrasnow]

Well said Jim

[Qwerty]

Excellent find Qwerty - though i notice its incorrectly identified as FOR SPECIAL SERVICES in the description.

Yes, I've seen that too. (Seen this specific one on eBay many times, perhaps time to lower the price.)

[DLibrasnow]

Yikes.....I didn't even notice the price.

[Qwerty]

Expected, it's a proof. I haven't seen enough Role Of Honour ones to know how that proof price compares.