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John Gardner was born in Seaton Delaval, Northumbria. He graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge and volunteered for service in the Royal Marines during World War II. After the war, Gardner was ordained and served as a priest for seven years before deciding he did not have the proper vocation and withdrawing from the clergy. Gardner is the author of the acclaimed Boysie Oakes series and fourteen James Bond novels.
'One of the most cruel crime bosses in fiction' Scotsman. 'Gardner revels in getting the details of, say, the food or the thieves' slang of the period right This is the world of the Holmes stories, but fascinatingly viewed from the bottom up, through criminal's eyes' Sunday Times.
