ecqJP (Download) Zero Minus Ten (007) Online [ecqJP.ebook] Zero Minus Ten (007) Pdf Free Raymond Benson ePub | *DOC | audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #627781 in eBooks 2012-10-01 2012-10-01File Name: B015CYJMO8 | File size: 26.Mb Raymond Benson : Zero Minus Ten (007) before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Zero Minus Ten (007): 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Raymond Fleming??By SwordsmanIn the days leading up to reading Raymond Benson's inaugural James Bond novel ZERO MINUS TEN I reread four or five of my favorite Ian Fleming titles. I'm stunned (and delighted) to report that Ray can hang with Bond's progenitor himself.Benson's adventures of 007 are thrillers of the same stature of Ian Lancaster Fleming's. Maybe even better! Prestidigitator Benson has mastered the old wine in new bottles trick. ZERO MINUS TEN is my new favorite James Bond novel and I say this as an ex-Fleming snob of the worst stripe! The task of making James Bond fun again after the John Gardner era must've been formidable indeed, but Benson succeeded admirably bringing Bond back with Walther PPK in hand and a cigarette in his rather cruel mouth. A similar comparison might be how many writers tried to revive Robert E. Howard's Conan and failed? At least a dozen took a hard fall face first into their typewriters to crash and burn; recreating Conan in Howard's image couldn't be done (not even by Robert Jordan). Fleming's style, like Howard's, cannot be recaptured but Benson's take on James Bond effortlessly outdistanced all other Bond wannabes by a country mile. His resurrection of the 007 of the printed page has mission accomplished stamped all over it.Bond's escapades in Kowloon and Oz in ZERO MINUS TEN are the stuff old fashioned thrillers are made of. Benson's secret agent 007's foray into mainland China to hoodwink a crooked general, his harrowing fight with bad guys high above the Outback in an airplane piloted by a dead man and his kiss kiss bang bang last minute resolution in Victoria Harbour are as suspenseful as Fleming's Bond busting out of Dr. No's prison 39 years earlier.Don't take my word for it, read TEN MINUS ZERO and feel the burn of the Fleming sweep reborn.6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Benson is the BEST!By GrrrrOf all the authors that have attempted to put the Walther PPK back in Bond's holster, Raymond Benson has always been my favorite. Every time a new Benson Bond novel came out, it was always a treat. He has a feel for the character and his adventures that revitalized the legacy after some of the dissappointing efforts by previous author, John Gardner. Would love to see Benson pick up the pen again with some more Bond novels!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Zero Minus Ten-A QUINTESSENTIAL Bond novel debut of EXPLOSIVE action and political suspense!!!!By CaseyI had just finished reading this explosive debut James Bond novel (in Kindle e-book format) by American author Raymond Benson just a few days ago, and I must say, I almost felt as if I were watching an actual Bond film each time I turned the page. Yet apart from the thrilling and VERY VIOLENT action scenes, Benson also well-displays his knowledge as a truly educated historian in detailing the political drama of Hong Kong's historically turbulent return to mainland China on July 1, 1997. Of course, the drama STILL continues to this very day, with thousands of pro-democracy protesters violently clashing with police in the streets of Hong Kong, passionately fighting for freedom from China's communist rule. I began reading this novel just after having flown from San Jose, CA to the Seattle-Tacoma area of Washington (I stayed over at my aunt's house for at least one week with my Mom and other aunt). With the outside temperature much too chilly and damp to go for a walk, reading Zero Minus Ten (in the comfort of the warm room I slept in) was the PERFECT remedy!! The villain, Guy Thackeray, and his menacing trio of Chinese Albino henchmen are vividly well-detailed (heck, if Zero Minus Ten is EVER adapted as a Bond film, I have some *perfect* actors in mind, any of whom could pull off the role of Thackeray with pure panache!!). I very much look forward to reading the second book of Benson's Bond series, The Facts of Death, sometime in 2015!!!! It's June 1997 and M despatches James Bond to Hong Kong to investigate a recent spate of unexplained incidents including a car bomb and an explosion on a floating restaurant. Bond's enquiries bring him into conflict with ruthless Triad gangs, a Chinese general, and the beautiful Sunni Pei. From Kirkus sThe author of The James Bond Bedside Companion (not reviewed) pits Agent 007 against worthy Pacific Basin opponents in a more than serviceable first thriller that could give Ian Fleming's ultracool hero yet another new lease on life. Dispatched to Hong Kong to halt a series of violent incidents that threaten the Crown Colony's mid- 1997 return to the People's Republic of China, Bond first checks on Guy Thackeray, the fifth- generation head of a family shipping firm called EurAsia Enterprises. Although the SIS troubleshooter gets the goods on the shady businessman, the latter perishes (or appears to) in a car bombing. In next trying to tap underworld intelligence sources, 007 makes a nearly fatal mistake and is obliged to undertake a personal mission for triad chieftain Li Xu Nan. Against the odds, the master spy penetrates the PRC and returns alive, bearing papers that put Li in his debt. With help from the grateful crime boss, Bond heads down under to investigate a mysterious outback blast London has told him is not his affair. In due course, he finds a back-from- the-dead Thackeray at a remote uranium mine; to his horror, he learns that the embittered taipan (who's used EurAsia to make a great fortune in the drug trade) plans to put paid to the celebration of Hong Kong's handover by detonating a crude nuclear device on or near the island at midnight on June 30, 1997. Before 007 can beat the clock and save the showcase outpost of empire with an eleventh-hour dash through a crowded harbor, however, he must escape the clutches of a villainous captor and make it out of western Australia's famously inhospitable bush country. Benson's 007 is a chip off the old block and, if not a gilt- edged Bond, at least a double-A. -- Copyright copy;1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.About the AuthorSIMON VANCE is a prolific and popular audiobook narrator and actor with several hundred audiobooks to his credit. An Audiereg; Award- winner, Vance was recently named "The Voice of Choice" by Booklist magazine. [ecqJP.ebook] Zero Minus Ten (007) By Raymond Benson PDF [ecqJP.ebook] Zero Minus Ten (007) By Raymond Benson Epub [ecqJP.ebook] Zero Minus Ten (007) By Raymond Benson Ebook [ecqJP.ebook] Zero Minus Ten (007) By Raymond Benson Rar [ecqJP.ebook] Zero Minus Ten (007) By Raymond Benson Zip [ecqJP.ebook] Zero Minus Ten (007) By Raymond Benson Read Online.