Bond is back. With a vengeance. 'There's something I need your help with.

The details are a little hazy at the moment, but I sense that it's going to be something big. Very big indeed. Have you heard of Dr Julius Gorner?'It's a name that will become seared into James Bond's consciousness.

The name of a man who knows no master but his own power-crazed ego, whose wealth is exceeded only by his greed and who will stop at nothing until he has destroyed the very heart of Great Britain. A savage execution in the desolate outskirts of Paris sets in motion a chain of events designed to lead only to global catastrophe, as a tide of lethal narcotics threatens to engulf Sixties Britain, a British airliner goes missing over Iraq and the thunder of coming war echoes round the Middle East...Bond finds a willing accomplice in the shape of a glamorous Parisian called Scarlett Papava. He will need all her help in a life-and-death struggle with his most dangerous adversary yet - a man who would dance with the Devil himself.

It is unabridged. It is read by Jeremy Northam.