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Raymond Benson's Books

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell--Operation Barracuda
Nov.01.2005
The sequel to the NY Times best-selling book, Raymond writes as "David Michaels" again with a brand new adventure featuring Sam Fisher. This time around, Fisher is sent to search for the various leaders of The Shop, the nefarious arms dealing organization that he encountered in the first novel. As the trail takes him from the Ukraine and Russia to Hong Kong and China--...
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Dec.01.2004
Raymond writing as "David Michaels." Splinter Cell is about an American operative named Sam Fisher who works for "Third Echelon," a secret branch of the National Security Agency. Fisher, like James Bond, works alone behind enemy lines--gathering intelligence and stopping bad guys. In true Clancy fashion, the book(s) will feature topical plots involving tomorrow'...
Evil Hours
Mar.01.2004
Shannon Reece's mother was one of several women murdered in the small Texas town of Limite when Shannon was six years old. Her mother's alleged killer was convicted and sent to jail, where he was subsequently killed by fellow inmates. Now, 26 years later, Shannon has decided that the unresolved questions about the case, which continue to haunt her, can no longer be ignored. With...
Face Blind
Oct.01.2003
Imagine a world where you don't recognize the human face. That's Hannah's condition--prosopagnosia, or "face blindness"--when the brain center that recognizes faces is inoperable. The onset of the condition occurred when she was attacked and nearly raped by an unknown assailant in the inner lobby of her New York City apartment building. And now she thinks he's back, and...
Die Another Day
Nov.01.2002
Novelization of the 2002 James Bond film, based on the screenplay. The action-packed story begins in a demilitarised zone between North and South Korea with a spectacular high-speed hovercraft chase. From Hong Kong to Cuba to London, Bond continues his quest to unmask a traitor and prevent a war of catastrophic consequence - but not without the help and hindfrance of two mysterious...
Jethro Tull--Pocket Essentials
Sep.01.2002
The Legendary Jethro Tull - How many rock bands from the sixties can you name that are still around today? Probably not that many. There are a few - the Rolling Stones, Yes, Santana but most have broken up, stopped recording, and reappear only for the ubiquitous 'reunion' tours. Jethro Tull is one band that formed in 1968 and is still going strong, thanks to the leadership, vision...
The Man With the Red Tattoo
May.01.2002
On a quiet late-night flight from Tokyo to London, a beautiful young woman, Kioko McMahon, falls ill. Before the plane can reach emergency medical facilities across the Pacific, she succumbs to her inexplicable symptoms. The mystery deepens when police in Japan discover that her family shared her fate. The only survivor is her rebellious sister, Mayumi, who had run off with her...
Never Dream of Dying
May.01.2001
In Raymond Benson's chilling new James Bond novel, 007 comes face to face at last with the most cunning criminal mastermind he has ever fought-the blind genius behind the brutal organization called the Union. It begins at a movie studion in Nice, where a police raid goes horribly wrong, with innocent men, women and children killed. It continues in an English prison, where a corpse...
DoubleShot
May.01.2000
The intricately organized criminal conspiracy called the Union has vowed its revenge on the man who thwarted its last coup. Now, the Union's mysterious leader sets out to destroy James Bond's reputation and sanity by luring the agent into a dangerous alliance of deceit and treason with a Spanish militant intent on reclaiming Gibraltar. Officially on medical leave as a result of a...
TV GUIDE Nov. 13, 1999
Nov.13.1999
This James Bond short story originally appeared in the November 13, 1999 issue of TV GUIDE Magazine.
The World is Not Enough
Nov.01.1999
Novelization of the 1999 James Bond film, based on the screenplay. After oil tycoon Sir Robert King is killed bombing at MI6 headquarters, his daughter, Elektra, inherits his fortune - billions of dollars worth of oil deposits in the Caspian Sea... and James Bond, 007, as a bodyguard. Her new wealth attracts international interest. But she has also attracted the attentions of her...
High Time to Kill
May.01.1999
When information vital to Britian's national security is stolen by a shadowy organization called the Union, the trail leads Bond from one of England's most exclusive golf clubs to the cosmopolitan city of Brussels, and finally to an expedition up the icy heights of the legendary mountain Kangchenjunga, the third tallest peak in the world. In his most thrilling adventure yet, Bond...
Playboy 1/99
Jan.01.1999
This James Bond short story originally appeared in the January 1999 issue of PLAYBOY Magazine.
The Facts of Death
May.01.1998
A dozen British soldiers are poisoned in Cyprus and James Bond himself barely escapes with his life. Then M's lover is assassinated in London and dies in her arms... Following leads to Texas, Bond fears he will uncover an international scandal that could engulf his service and his country. Instead, he finds his first trace of the Decada. Held together by archaic philosophy and...
Tomorrow Never Dies
Nov.01.1997
Novelization of the 1997 James Bond film, based on the screenplay. A man who can start a war anytime and anyplace - and profit from it - would be the most powerful man in the world. Elliot Carver knows this. And he has a plan to turn his media conglomerate into a true empire, exploiting global conflicts he creates with on-the-spot news coverage guaranteed to bring him the highest...