CARTE BLANCHE by Jeffery Deaver - Paperback

James Bond, in his early thirties, has been recruited to a new organization. It operates independent of MI5, MI6 and the Ministry of Defence, its very existence deniable. A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: Casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversley affected. And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche.

'Deaver is in a class of his own. Nobody's done it better' - EVENING STANDARD