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Authors: John Gardner
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‘Don’t know how she does it,’ said Tommy.
Last of all, Mother Rachel and Sister Eunice did the two Germans in an air raid shelter—
‘Vot vos dot?’
‘Dot vos a bomp.’
How Suzie and Tommy laughed: a shade hysterically.
‘So, what’s next?’ Suzie asked when they got back to the flat above Upper St Martin’s Lane. ‘Tommy Livermore going to do his contortions, is he?’
‘Well, if you don’t mind I’ve instructed the banns to be read in the chapel at Kingscote, and in the local parish church.’
‘Tommy!’ she squealed. After all, they had been quietly engaged since 1941, and Tommy had occasionally blown hot and cold about it. ‘Oh, you really have done it? We’re to be married?’
‘Of course. If you don’t mind.’
‘Oh, yes please. Yes very please.’
Smiling, Tommy leered quietly in her ear. ‘Get up them stairs,’ he said.
‘Tommy.’ She gave him a curious look. ‘We haven’t any stairs and it’s get up
those
stairs. What’s happened to your grammar?’
‘Heart, it’s get up
them
stairs. That’s the way the brutal and licentious soldiery indicate their need for connubial congress. “Get up
them
stairs,” they say.’
‘Dirty beasts,’ Suzie said with a broad smile, as she headed towards the bedroom.
A
LSO BY
J
OHN
G
ARDNER
In the Suzie Mountford series
Bottled Spider
The Streets of Town
Angels Dining at the Ritz
Troubled Midnight
In the James Bond series
Licence Renewed
For Special Services
Icebreaker
Role of Honor
Nobody Lives For Ever
No Deals, Mr Bond
Scorpius
Win, Lose or Die
Brokenclaw
The Man from Barbarossa
Death is For Ever
Never Send Flowers
Seaf1ire
Cold
License to Kill
(from the screenplay)
GoldenEye
(from the screenplay)
In the Boysie Oakes series
The Liquidator
Understrike
Amber Nine
Madrigal
Founder Member
Traitor’s Exit
Air Apparent
A Killer for a Song
In the Derek Torry series
A Complete State of Death
The Cornermen
In the Moriarty Journals series
The Return of Moriarty
The Revenge of Moriarty
In the Kruger series
The Nostradamus Traitor
The Garden of Weapons
The Quiet Dogs
Maestro
Confessor
Novels
Golgotha
Flamingo
The Dancing Dodo
The Werewolf Trace
To Run a Little Faster
Every Night’s a Bullfight
The Censor
Day of Absolution
Blood of the Fathers
(Published under the name of Edmund McCoy and republished 2004 as
Unknown Fears
)
The Generations Trilogy
The Secret Generations
The Secret Houses
The Secret Families
Autobiography
Spin The Bottle
Collections of Short Stories
The Assassination File
Hideaway
P
RAISE FOR
J
OHN
G
ARDNER
“Gardner is a master storyteller.”
—Len Deighton, author of
The Ipcress File
“This intriguing World War II espionage police procedural is a fine thriller that provides an interesting look at the pre D-day planning … John Gardner provides a fine historical spy story.”
—Harriet Klausner on
Troubled Midnight
“A fast-paced, suspenseful, atmospheric whodunit.”
—
Booklist
on
Bottled Spider
“Richly textured, wonderfully atmospheric, and ironic, the novel shows Gardner as a smooth, polished master of the form.”
—
Publishers Weekly
on
Day of Absolution
“Fascinating story … a satisfying book from a seasoned pro.”
—
Booklist
on
Day of Absolution
“This is Gardner’s sixth James Bond spy thriller and one that absolutely shouldn’t be missed. The action is superb and 007 is, as always, in peak form. Never a dull moment is an understatement for this fast-moving series of explosive chapters. Highly recommended for all popular fiction collections.”
—
Library Journal
on
No Deals, Mr Bond
“This is Gardner’s thirteenth novel starring the handsome, tough, romantic hero 007 since he took over the series after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964. In
Seafire,
Gardner again mixes sex and violence in exotic settings.… It’s a rollicking ride all the way.”
—
Booklist
John Gardner
wrote over fifty novels, including a series of highly acclaimed comic novels featuring the cowardly secret agent Boysie Oakes, and a number of continuation James Bond books commissioned by the Ian Fleming copyright holders. Visit his Web site at
www.john-gardner.com
.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS
.
An imprint of St. Martin’s Press.
NO HUMAN ENEMY
. Copyright © 2007 by John Gardner. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gardner, John, 1926–2007.
No human enemy / John Gardner. —1st Thomas Dunne Books ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-37670-3
ISBN-10: 0-312-37670-7
1. Mountford, Suzie (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women detectives—England—London—Fiction. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Social aspects—Great Britain—Fiction. 4. V-1 bomb—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6057.A63 N59 2008
823'.914—dc22
2008018435
First published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby Limited
First Thomas Dunne Books Edition: August 2008
eISBN 9781466849372
First eBook edition: June 2013
