COLD (novel)
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{{Infobox Book
| name = COLD<br>'''also''' Cold Fall
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| image = [[Image:ColdNovel.jpg|center|200px|]]
| image_caption = Berkley Books American paperback edition, retitled ''Cold Fall''.
| author = [[John Gardner (thriller writer)|John Gardner]]
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| country = [[United Kingdom]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| series = [[James Bond]]
| genre = [[Spy novel]]
| publisher = [[Hodder & Stoughton]] (UK) & [[G. P. Putnam's Sons]] (USA)
| release_date = 2 May 1996
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover]] and [[Paperback]])
| pages = 264 pp (first edition, hardback)
| isbn = ISBN 0-340-65765-0 (first edition, hardback)
| preceded_by = [[GoldenEye#Novelisation|GoldenEye]]
| followed_by = "[[James Bond uncollected short stories#"Blast from the Past"|Blast from the Past]]"
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'''''COLD''''', first published in [[1996]], was the sixteenth and final novel by [[John Gardner (thriller writer)|John Gardner]] featuring [[Ian Fleming]]'s [[secret agent]], [[James Bond]] (including Gardner's novelizations of ''[[Licence to Kill]]'' and ''[[GoldenEye]]''). Carrying the [[Glidrose Publications]] copyright, it was first published in the [[United Kingdom]] by [[Hodder & Stoughton]] and in the [[United States]] by [[G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam]].
In the United States, the book was retitled '''''Cold Fall'''''. This was the first time a Bond novel had been given a different title for American book publication since Fleming's ''[[Moonraker (novel)|Moonraker]]'' was initially published there under the title ''Too Hot to Handle'' in the mid-1950s. The British title is properly spelled as an acronym (with no full stops), but it is also common to find it spelled '''''Cold'''''.
==Plot summary==
The novel is split into two books, one called "Cold Front" and the second entitled "Cold Conspiracy." The time between each book appears to be the time period allotted to Gardner's previous Bond outings, ''[[Never Send Flowers]]'' and ''[[SeaFire]]''.
The story opens with the crash of a Boeing 747-400 at [[Dulles International Airport]] in [[Fairfax County, Virginia|Fairfax]] and [[Loudoun County, Virginia|Loudoun]] counties, [[Virginia]], near [[Washington, D.C.]], and the apparent death of Bond's friend and lover, the Principessa Sukie Tempesta. Bond is then sent by M to the airport with an investigation team which leads to meetings with FBI agent Eddie Rhabb.
The main action takes place in Italy at the home of the Tempesta brothers, Luigi and Angelo, where Bond gets caught in the act with one of the brothers' wives. As James later explains to M, the lady made the advances. The enemy of the story is provided by a terrorist army called COLD, which stands for Children Of the Last Days.
==Publication history==
*1996, UK, [[Hodder & Stoughton]] (ISBN 0-340-65765-0), Pub date 2 May 1996, hardback (First edition)
*1996, USA, [[G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam]] (ISBN 0-399-14149-9), Pub date ? June 1996, hardback
*1997, UK, [[Coronet Books]] (ISBN 0-340-65766-9), Pub date 5 September 1996, paperback
*1997, USA, [[Berkley Books]] (ISBN 0-425-15902-7), Pub date ? July 1997, paperback
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[[Category:1996 novels]]
[[Category:James Bond books]]
[[Category:British novels]]
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