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A James Bond adventure for the National Year of Reading
Ceylon, 1954.
The British are leaving. It’s six years since Ceylon, land of the most precious gemstones on earth, was released from the Empire. The forts and officers’ messes on the island are emptying.
But James Bond is travelling in the opposite direction.
007 is on a mission to track down one of the most valuable stones in the world. And he doesn’t have much time to do it. Bond is lured into a deadly game played from the cool mountains of Kandy to the
pitch-black depths of the ocean floor, finding the stakes are far higher than gemstones alone.
To come out alive, he’s going to have to gamble everything. It’s ALL IN – or nothing.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dan Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of Powers and Thrones, Crusaders, The Templars, The Plantagenets, Wars of the Roses, and Magna Carta, as well as the novel Essex Dogs. He is the host of the podcast This is History: A Dynasty to Die For and has produced, written, and presented dozens of TV shows, including the popular Netflix series Secrets of Great British Castles.
