John Gardner's Scorpius (1988) - Avante Carte Promotional Credit Card?

In Raymond Benson's The James Bond Bedside Companion (2nd edn, 1988) it mentions that the John Gardner continuation novel Scorpius (1988) had a promotional Avante Carte Credit Card to promote the book, for sale at the same time of the sale of the hardback of the novel in 1988 by Guild Publishing (which had an Avante Carte credit card on the front cover). My question is, does anyone here know any more details about this or even have one of these promotional products? If so, I'd really love to hear from you.

This is quite unusual and I think it's one of the few promotions that accompanied the John Gardner continuation novels. There were promotions through the cars used in the early novels - both the Saab 900 and the Bentley Mulsanne Turbo had promotions accompanying them.

I guess that this is the best place to ask this question as you guys certainly know your stuff here in the AJB Memorabilia, Collecting and Clothing. I believe this is renowned as the very best such forum in the world. Hopefully some of the experts here may be able to help me on this. Posted below is a link to an image of the Avante Carte credit card:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ScorpiusNovelCover.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/ScorpiusNovelCover.jpg

Never knew they did that. You could try asking his son Simon Gardner there's the possibility he might know something or someone who could tell you more about it. He now runs John's website and has a facebook page for his father and he seems quite accessible, maybe he'd know about it?

I've got a few replies on the other James Bond fan forums. I know Simon through email contact, so I may ask him in the future, too.

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Anyone have any further idea on this one?