For Special Services vs Icebreaker: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Secret Agents, Bond, James Bond, English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service
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…
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Icebreaker
In Icebreaker, as indestructible as ever, Bond is back in another mission—a deadly assignment undertaken in cohort with Bond’s opposite numbers from the United States, the Soviet Union, and Israel in the desolate Arctic…
The verdict
- Readers rate Icebreaker highest: Icebreaker 4.0 · For Special Services 3.6.
- Icebreaker has the widest readership — 20646 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| For Special Services | Icebreaker | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.6 (2463) | 4.0 (20646) |
| Hardcover | 3.6 (10) | 2.9 (8) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (7) | 4.5 (5) |
Reception
| For Special Services | Icebreaker | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 2463 | 20646 |
| Editions | 20 | 17 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 1204 | — |
| Reading it now | 71 | — |
| Written reviews | 166 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 403 | 650 |
| Pages | 296 | 250 |