COLD vs For Special Services: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Secret Agents, James Bond, English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Great Britain
COLD
James Bond is on a mission that will become an obsession. It starts the night Flight 229 is torn apart at Washington airport, killing 435 passengers. But the victim who matters to Bond is the Principessa Sukie Tempesta:…
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For Special Services
Bond is back on secret loan to the United States Government and primed to confront an old and deadly adversary which now has a sinister new leader and a devastating operation underway. Armed with a pair of…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- For Special Services has the widest readership — 2463 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| COLD | For Special Services | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.6 (2463) |
| Hardcover | 3.7 (3) | 3.6 (10) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (7) |
Reception
| COLD | For Special Services | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 3 | 2463 |
| Editions | 8 | 20 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 1204 |
| Reading it now | — | 71 |
| Written reviews | — | 166 |
| Wikipedia attention | 289 | 403 |
| Pages | 235 | 296 |