James Bond (John Gardner) Books in Order

Gardner’s first Bond novel updates 007 for the 1980s. Bond infiltrates the circle of nuclear physicist Anton Murik, whose terrorist plan threatens power plants around the world.

Bond teams with Cedar Leiter to investigate Markus Bismaquer, an ice-cream magnate suspected of reviving SPECTRE. The mission leads from Texas to a scheme aimed at NORAD.

Bond joins an uneasy team of CIA, KGB, and Mossad agents against a neo-Nazi terrorist network. In the Arctic cold, every alliance is useful, and none is safe.

Bond appears to leave the Service in disgrace, making himself bait for SPECTRE. His target is a computer-game entrepreneur whose simulations conceal a plot against the superpowers.

Tamil Rahani, the dying head of SPECTRE, puts a price on Bond’s head. As assassins close in across Europe and Florida, Bond’s housekeeper May and Miss Moneypenny are drawn into danger.

Years after a failed East German operation, surviving agents from a honey-trap mission are being murdered. Bond is sent to find who is cleaning up the past, and why.

A death in London leads Bond to The Meek Ones, a cult run by the mysterious Father Valentine. Behind the sermons is arms dealer Vladimir Scorpius and a plan built on fanaticism.

Gardner novelizes the film in which Bond goes rogue after drug lord Franz Sanchez destroys Felix Leiter’s life. Stripped of official backing, 007 infiltrates Sanchez’s empire from the inside.

Bond is assigned to protect a secret aircraft-carrier summit involving world leaders. A terrorist group called BAST plans to infiltrate the operation, turning a naval exercise into a hostage crisis.

Bond investigates Lee Fu-Chu, known as Brokenclaw, a San Francisco crime lord tied to stolen submarine technology. The case grows into a plan to crash the dollar and shake the world economy.

An elderly American is kidnapped by Russian extremists who believe he is a war criminal. Bond works with Soviet and Israeli contacts as the case turns into a political trap.

After the Cold War, members of a secret intelligence network called Cabal are being hunted. Bond and CIA agent Easy St John follow the killings toward a plot tied to the new Channel Tunnel.

Bond and Swiss investigator Flicka von Grüsse probe a string of murders marked by strange roses. The trail leads to retired actor David Dragonpol and a theatrical secret with deadly consequences.

Bond and Flicka von Grüsse pursue Sir Maxwell Tarn, a billionaire arms dealer with grandiose fascist fantasies. The trail runs through Europe, Israel, and the Caribbean as Tarn’s SeaFire plan takes shape.

Gardner adapts the Bond film, sending 007 after the Janus crime syndicate and the stolen GoldenEye satellite weapon. The case becomes personal when Bond finds a former ally behind the threat.

In Gardner’s final Bond novel, 007 follows a lethal trail toward COLD, a fanatical group called Children of the Last Days. The mission links personal danger, old enemies, and global threat.