Colonel Sun

By Robert Markham, Kingsley Amis, Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis)

Book Overview

The first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964, this classic thriller follows James Bond on a mission to a small Aegean island to track down M's kidnappers--the malign Colonel Sun Liang-tan and his ex-Nazi commander cohort, the deadly Von Richter.

Lunch, a quiet game of golf, a routine social call on M, who is convalescing in his Regency house in Berkshire--the life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency, until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped and all of his house staff savagely murdered.

The action ricochets across the globe, but quickly enough lands Bond on a volcanic Greek island, where the malign Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of China is collaborating with the ex-Nazi commander, Von Richter, in planning a world-dominating conspiracy. The stakes have never been higher, nor the dangers more complex. Bond's allies--the beautiful, brown-haired Greek agent, Ariadne Alexandrou; along with a tough-as-nails former World War II resistance fighter--are quickly neutralized by the venomous Colonel Sun. Alone and unarmed, faces off against these two nefarious villains.

Stripped of all professional aids, James Bond faces the deadly devices of Colonel Sun and his Nazi cohort in a test that brings him to the verge of his physical abilities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681776499
• ISBN13: 9781681776491
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

One of the world's most criminally overlooked novels

"Colonel Sun" is far and away the best Bond novel written by a Fleming successor (a distant second would be Christopher Wood's surprisingly tense novelization of his "Spy Who Loved Me" script).Kingsley Amis, who proved his knowledge of Fleming's writing in "The James Bond Dossier," creates a novel that's actually better than a few Flemings titles. The plot is engrossing, the villain is superb and after you read the torture sequence you'll never look at a screwdriver the same way again. Pure Bond greatness that deserves a wider readership. I hope Penguin adds it to its marvelous trade paperbacks, but I doubt it will happen.

The best

It's even better than all of Ian Fleming's 007 novels.

THIS IS THE BEST NON-FLEMING BOND STORY

I have just finished this book and I experienced the same thing as when I read Fleming himself. Amis has been able to do what none of the other Bond writers (Gardner, Benson) can even come close to doing. Very Fleming-esque and very true to the original formula of a Bond story. I really enjoyed it and highly agree with the other reviewers. Kingsley Amis was the true successor to Fleming. If only he'd written more like this...

FLEMING REBORN, A TRUE HIDDEN TREASURE

ONE HELL OF A READ, LIKE MANY OTHERS I DISCOVERED THIS BOOK AFTER STARTING GARDNERS CYCLE AND IT WAS AS IF AN OLD FRIEND HAD REAPPEARED. SUPERIOR PLOT STYLE, CHARACTERS. FIND IT AT ALL COSTS!