ICEBREAKER. - A James Bond novel by Gardner, John

New York, 1983, Putnam, US first edition, hard bound w/DJ, VG/VG- ( very slight chips to DJ ). 6x9, 301 pp, ----------------------------------------------------------------3rd in author's new adventures of James Bond, suave British spy. James Bond has never been on a mission like the one described in Icebreaker, not in the best-selling License Renewed, not even in For Special Services. Posted by M to the freezing forests of north Finland in winter, the indomitable 007 is obliged against his better judgment to collaborate with fellow agents of the KGB, the CIA and Mossad (the Israeli Secret Service). Their task: to discover, and, if feasible, eradicate a secret neo-Nazi core group whose worldwide terrorist activities have reached alarming proportions and whose headquarters, the lee Palace, may well be across the border in Arctic Russia. Right from the start, Bond senses that things aren't what they seem. First there is Paula Vacker, Bond's old Helsinki dalliance. But if Paula is a dalliance, why are two knifewielding professionals waiting for Bond in her apartment? And why the three giant snow plows, lying in ambush on the frozen nocturnal roads of the North to make a sausage of Bond's Saab?----------------------------------------------Then there are his mission partners: Kolya Mosolov of the KGB, the chameleon of a thousand faces; "Bad" Brad Tirpitz of the CIA, given to calling a spade a shovel, who trails Bond's snow scooter in one of his own; and Rivke Ingber of Mossad, whose wiles and beauty entice Bond to one of the rare blunders of his career.Behind them all lurks the mysterious Count von Glöda, he of the Nazi calling, deviser (among other things) of the ice torture, as deadly a power as Bond has encountered. For, unknown to Bond, von Glöda has Made a pact with the KGB.Von Glöda's part of the bargain? To deliver James Bond-alive if possible! The heirs of SMERSH, it seems, have long memories indeed. .