sentences:  Even though Gardner kept the ages the same, he made Bond grey at the temples as a nod to the passing of the years.In 1996, Gardner retired from writing "James Bond" books due to ill health.With the influence of the American publishers, Putnam's, the Gardner novels showed an increase in the number of Americanisms used in the book, such as a waiter wearing "pants", rather than trousers, in "The Man from Barbarossa".