After leaving the service, he eventually became a journalist and critic. He attended Cambridge University and was a member of the Royal Marines. John Gardner was born in Northumberland, England, on the 20th of November, 1926. There has been renewed interest lately in the John Gardner era of James Bond books, and I thought I would throw my two pence in – not in a podcast, but via this blog.

– John Gardner interviewed in Bondage Magazine # 14 I have to keep a slight distance from him because he is somebody else’s creation, and not my own.”

“I’m always conscious when I’m doing Bond that he is not mine.