Icebreaker

Icebreaker
By John Gardner

Here's the problem with these John Gardner novels.  They just are not that memorable.  Now, had I written this review shortly after reading the book and not just jotted down some notes while I was reading it, I could probably go into great detail about the plot.  But that didn't happen.

So.  Icebreaker.  Yeah...

Bond is send north of the Arctic Circle to Finland for a training assignment.  After the training he meets up with Paula Vacker.  Is she an old friend?  A fellow MI6 employee.  Yeah I don't recall.  At her apartment they are attacked by two thugs.  Bond takes them out.  

The bad guys in the book belong to the NSAA, National Socialist Action Army.  They are killing off commies around the world.

For some reason lost to me now, Bond meets up with a team comprised of KGB, CIA, Mossad, and MI6 agents and they set off to destroy the NSAA.

There are car chases, snowmobile chases, a hidden Arctic base.  The plot is actually more like an Ian Flemming novel, though the book and actions scenes lend themselves more to a movie. My notes read: story wise lots of action. Good spy story. Lots of double crosses. Kinda throws you off guard with all the changing sides, not knowing who is who. Oddest part (and Bond acknowledges it) is that Bond never gets close to Von Gölda, (NSAA leader?) It's more like villain is Kolya, (agent assigned to the task force).

I'm betting as I go back and try and post these reviews, they will be hit or miss depending on how much the book stuck with me.  Oh well.