Cold (novel)

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Cold

First UK edition cover
Author	John Gardner
Language	English
Series	James Bond
Genre	Spy fiction
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date	2 May 1996
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	264 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	0-340-65765-0 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC	60303934

Cold, first published in 1996, was the sixteenth and final novel^{[citation needed]} by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond^[1] (including Gardner's novelizations of Licence to Kill and GoldenEye). Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.

In the United States, the book was retitled Cold Fall. This was the first time an original Bond novel had been given a different title for American book publication, other than for reasons of spelling, since Fleming's Moonraker was initially published there under the title Too Hot to Handle in the mid-1950s. The British title is properly spelled as an acronym (with no full stops), but it is also common to find it spelt Cold.