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    Colonel Sun

    By Robert Markham and Kingsley Amis

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    Published in 1968, four years after Ian Fleming’s death, Colonel Sun was the first Bond ‘continuation’ novel, penned by one of Britain’s finest novelists, Kingsley Amis.

    ‘A man in my line of business shouldn’t work to a timetable’

    Lunch at Scott's, a quiet game of golf, a routine social call on his chief M – James Bond’s life has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency. Until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped and his house staff savagely murdered. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island where 007 must avert a world-menacing conspiracy and confront the monstrous devices of the merciless Colonel Sun.

    Unarmed and stripped of all professional aids, Bond faces a test that brings him to the verge of his physical endurance.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIan Fleming Publications
    Release dateOct 10, 2012
    ISBN9780224612944
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    Robert Markham

    Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils, winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, and The Biographer's Moustache, which was to be his last book. He also wrote on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in October 1995

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    • 3/5
      Written by Kingsley Amis under the pseudonym of Robert Markham & published six years after Flemming died, this a fast moving and very violent Bond outing. The Chinese plan to attack a conference on an island in the Mediterranean that is being organized by the Russians. The idea is that when the international community investigates the site, they will find the bodies of Jame Bond and his boss M in the debris and blame the British Secret Service for the attack.The Russian general in charge of security refuses to believe his own agent and Bond that the attack is being planned. M is kidnapped and Bond is sent to get him back and to prevent the Chinese attack.
    • 2/5
      Sad to say, this was a major disappointment for me. I was really excited to read the first "sequel" to Ian Fleming's work, and right away, I was let down. 'M' is kidnapped and Bond has to rescue him. That really is the whole plot. There is an "evil" plot, but I really couldn't make heads or tails of it, and I REALLY didn't understand why it was so important to stop! Colonel Sun was a cool bad guy, but only during the last 30-40 pages. Before that, he was barely in the book at all! And 007 is so different than he was in Fleming's work! He seems unsure, almost nervous, and he seems to have much more of a conscious than he had previously. In this book, he's almost "007 Light"! Well, maybe I'm being too harsh, but this book really didn't do anything for me. Bleh.
    • 3/5
      The very first continuation novel published four years after the death of Fleming. Initially I felt it was making good headway, with an interesting premise in the depiction of Bonds Enlgish idyll being shattered in the way that it is. Amis's narrative is different to Fleming and it's in the first few chapters that the similarity is the strongest. It does initially feel like a good paced Fleming thriller. Then Amis's rather more imaginative style takes over and whilst the action initially is thick and fast, this then lapses into an adventure story set in and around the Greek islands. Is that a problem? No, if that's what you're looking for. It doesn't have the bondian themes of luxury living, gourmet and gourmand flourishes to wet the appetite, and even a particularly memorable villain. This feels like half a story that Bond would otherwise go onto to finish at another location. The Bond girl and allies are equally as unmemorable. Interesting, but not as exciting as I'd like and not in my humble opinion, up to the latest offering from Horowitz.