Showing posts with label For Special Services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label For Special Services. Show all posts

Monday, 7 July 2014

007 Book location: John F. Kennedy Airport / several books

Bond books: Live And Let Die (1954), Diamonds Are Forever (1956), Goldfinger (1959), "007 in New York" (1964), For Special Services (1982), "Blast from the Past" (1997)
Place and location in the book: John F. Kennedy (JFK) Airport, New York, USA
Actual place and locationJohn F. Kennedy (JFK) Airport, New York, USA
What happens here in the books: Bond arrives in New York.
Visited by 007 Travelers: 2012


"Bond arrived at Kennedy Airport mid-day and took a taxi into Manhattan. As it was a weekday, the city was alive with the energy that made New York the premiere cosmopolitan city. It was a sunny, unseasonably warm spring day, and the Manhattanites were out in force. Traffic was dense, horns were bellowing and endless swarms of pedestrians darted across intersections."

Raymond Benson: "Blast from the Past" 






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Friday, 27 June 2014

007 Book: For Special Services (1982)

Bond book: For Special Services
Author: John Gardner
Publication year: September 1982

For Special Services was the second novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.

Bond teams up with CIA agent Cedar Leiter, daughter of his old friend, Felix Leiter, to investigate one Markus Bismaquer, who is suspected of reviving the criminal organisation SPECTRE, which was believed to have been disbanded years earlier following the death of its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, at the hands of Bond (in You Only Live Twice).

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Saturday, 22 February 2014

007 Book location: Strada Cucina Italiana (formerly known as Campana), London, England

STRADA CUCINA ITALIANA, formerly known as CAMPANA

Location: London, England
Address: 31 Marylebone High Street
Bond book appearance: For Special Services (1982)
Visited by 007 Travelers: 2010

A modern Italian restaurant located on the High Street amongst the trendy boutique shops and restaurants of Marylebone Village.

"After dining at a small Italian restaurant - the Campana in Marylebone High Street - the couple had gone back to Q´ute´s apartment where they made love with a disturbing wildness, as though time was running out for both of them."

John Gardner: "For Special Services" 









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