 First edition | |
| Author | John Gardner |
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| Language | English |
| Series | James Bond |
| Genre | Spy fiction |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
Publication date | 1992 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 224 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-340-54816-9 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 26721121 |
Death Is Forever, first published in 1992, was the twelfth novel by John Gardner to feature Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including Gardner's novelization of Licence to Kill). Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.
Death Is Forever is significant as the first James Bond novel to be published after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, two elements that were part and parcel of Bond's creation 40 years earlier.
More than most other Gardner novels, Death Is Forever is grounded in contemporary events, with the fallout from the end of the Cold War and the failed 1991 Russian coup being important backdrops to the story. The Eurotunnel connecting England and France, which was still under construction at the time the book was written, also serves as a major setting.