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Licence Renewed

By: John Gardner
Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
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The first of John Gardner's novels featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent. Bond has been assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been meeting with a terrorist known as Franco. Together, they plan to hijack six nuclear power plants around the world and start a global meltdown, unless Bond can stop them...

©2011 John Gardner (P)2011 Orion Publishing Group Limited Action & Adventure Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction
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I had read Licence Renewed before, and I enjoyed it then, but having it read to me was much better.
Jeremy Northam read it very well, though I was expecting Anton Murick's voice to have a Scottish accent, him being a laird. Maybe he wasn't really Scottish or I missed a subtle Scottish brogue.

Licence Renewed : well done John Gardner.

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poor story, just another megalomaniac wanting to blow up the world, rendered lifeless by poor story and wooden delivery. Only for completists.

Worst Bond ever?

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Firstly, Audible has this book listed in the wrong place. This book was released after Colonel Sun and was the first by John Gardner.

The book itself, well its a Bond-ish style story, although only a small handful of locations (and none of them exotic, sorry Scotland). Characters are a bit two dimensional, and Bond really isn't Bond in this book.

And then the narration. I had to speed it up as Jeremy Northam just sounded boring, with very little enthusiasm for the book. Some of his characters and accents were good, but his Bond was more Bland and Bored (lines like "Dilly Darling" were almost Carry On).

The first 007 audiobook I've got bored listening too, and occasionally changed to listening to the radio on my commute instead.

Bored, James Bored

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A great book and an all round good listen. Nothing outrageous from bond here. A well planned and executed story about Bond with great narration.

Excellent narration & storytelling

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Very pleasantly surprised with the story, it really felt like the original Bond books, loved the idea of a Scottish Laird (who happens to be an eminent nuclear physicist) as the villain, the awkward romance was like the old books too! The narration was great - loved Bond's and M's voices...If there's more of these, I'll definitely give them a go!

This felt like Bond of old under Fleming...

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