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GA Russell · 04-21-2015, 10:35 PM

I nominate The Liquidator by John Gardner.

I loved the 1966 movie based on this book (starring Rod Taylor, Jill St. John and Trevor Howard), so I read the book a couple of years later and enjoyed it very much as well.

There is a great deal of humor. A coward with little talent except for wooing the ladies is recruited to be Great Britain's primary political assassin. This results in his becoming a target of Britain's enemies.

This was the first of Gardner's Boysie Oakes series. Gardner then took over from Ian Fleming the James Bond books.

Kindle - Amazon US
http://www.amazon.com/Liquidator-Joh...dp/B00GGOBZXA/

Amazon UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liquidator-J...dp/B00GGOBZXA/

Amazon CA
http://www.amazon.ca/Liquidator-John...dp/B00GGOBZXA/

Amazon Aus
http://www.amazon.com.au/Liquidator-...dp/B00GGOBZXA/

04-21-2015, 10:35 PM	#12
GA Russell Argos upset Ticats Posts: 7,699 Karma: 31487351 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC Device: Paperwhite, Kindles 10 & 4 and jetBook Lite	I nominate The Liquidator by John Gardner. I loved the 1966 movie based on this book (starring Rod Taylor, Jill St. John and Trevor Howard), so I read the book a couple of years later and enjoyed it very much as well. There is a great deal of humor. A coward with little talent except for wooing the ladies is recruited to be Great Britain's primary political assassin. This results in his becoming a target of Britain's enemies. This was the first of Gardner's Boysie Oakes series. Gardner then took over from Ian Fleming the James Bond books. Kindle - Amazon US http://www.amazon.com/Liquidator-Joh...dp/B00GGOBZXA/ Amazon UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liquidator-J...dp/B00GGOBZXA/ Amazon CA http://www.amazon.ca/Liquidator-John...dp/B00GGOBZXA/ Amazon Aus http://www.amazon.com.au/Liquidator-...dp/B00GGOBZXA/ Last edited by GA Russell; 04-21-2015 at 10:42 PM.