Colonel Sun

A newly discovered James Bond adventure. From the cool complacency of elegant lunch and the pleasant challenge of the Sunningdale golf course to an explosive confrontation on a Greek island, Bond must play a game where nothing less than global chaos is at stake. Lunch at Scott's, a quiet game of golf, a routine social call on his chief M, 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 his house staff savagely murdered. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island where the glacial, malign Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of China collaborates with an ex-nazi atrocity expert in a world-menacing conspiracy. Bond finds himself working in alliance with the beautiful tawny-blonde agent of a rival secret service in the struggle to overpower this ruthless enemy who discards the unwritten rules of espionage. Stripped of all professional aids, Bond faces unarmed the monstrous devices of Colonel Sun in a test that brings him to the verge of his physical endurance. Colonel Sun was published in 1968 and is the first novel featuring the character of James Bond to appear after the death of his creator, Ian Fleming. It was published by Kingsley Amis under the name of Robert Markham 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. Published in 1968, Colonel Sun is the first novel featuring James Bond to appear after the death of his creator, Ian Fleming. It was published by Kingsley Amis under the name of Robert Markham.