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Deep in the heart of London a secret meeting is taking place. Drastic plans are being put into action. But Boysie Oakes, the suave, womanising special agent for British Intelligence, is unaware of the events unfolding around him - and is revelling in being free from the treacherous clutches of Special Security. Boysie, his former boss Mostyn and Charlie Griffin, have set up their own Security Service, GRIMOBO. Their first assignment has brought them to New York and Boysie has snatched a vacation at Cape Kennedy. Life is looking up. But, of course, something has to go wrong. It's just a small thing. Some light-fingered swine makes off with a Saturn V rocket. What's more, Boysie seems to have disappeared too. The same thieves that wanted the rocket want Boysie. For a change, though, they want him alive. Very much alive. And totally functional. Boysie’s holiday turns out to be the trip of a lifetime and he ends up travelling further than he ever expected. But all is not lost as of course a beautiful woman is also along for the ride. And Boysie Oakes is about to be plunged into the most dramatic adventure of his career.

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John Gardner

John Edmund Gardner was a British novelist. He was born in the village of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland as the son of a clergyman. He briefly attended Cottham’s Preparatory School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1931, and after the family had moved to Wantage in Berkshire in 1933, King Alfred’s School 1934–1943. He…

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