Bond is back. With a vengeance. 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 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. And Bond finds himself in a life-and-death struggle with his most dangerous adversary yet - a man who would dance with the Devil himself.