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| Author | John Gardner |
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| Cover artist | Richard Chopping |
| Language | English |
| Series | James Bond |
| Genre | Spy fiction |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 21 May 1981 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 272 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-224-01941-4 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 8146232 |
Licence Renewed, first published in 1981, is the first novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.[1] It was the first proper James Bond novel (not counting novelizations and a faux biography) since Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun in 1968. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Richard Marek, a G. P. Putnam's Sons imprint.
The release of Licence Renewed successfully relaunched the Bond literary franchise, being the first of 14 original novels by Gardner until his retirement in 1996. In that time frame Gardner also wrote two novelizations.