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During the mission, 007 discovers a communist Chinese plot lead by Colonel Sun to cause an international incident. Before writing the novel, Amis wrote two other Bond related works, the literary study “The James Bond Dossier” and the humorous “The Book of Bond.” Colonel Sun centres on the 007 British Secret Service operative James Bond and his mission to track down the kidnappers of M, his boss. Colonel Sun is the first James Bond continuation novel published after Ian Fleming's death. It’s definitely worth a read.īook Review - proud to add this rare James Bond ‘collectible’ to my book collection - “Colonel Sun” by Kingsley Amis.

Markham/Amis’s prose is terse, to the point and dare I say Hemingwayesque. It’s a quick and entertaining read that’s a worthy addition to the Bond canon. The intrepid trio race against the clock to disrupt the well-planned operation of the Chinese agent of the title, Colonel Sun.

His ennui is interrupted when he goes to visit an ailing M at his house, and is nearly captured along with his superior in an audacious kidnapping.īond manages to escape, but has to scramble to figure out why M was kidnapped, and why it seems his unknown adversary is leaving an easy trail of clues.īond travels to Athens and a fictional Greek isle aided by (of course) a beautiful Greek named Alexa who’s working for the Russian military intelligence agency GRU, and her relative Litsas. “Colonel Sun” begins with a restless and bored Bond finishing a golf game with M’s Chief of Staff Bill Tanner, and wondering whether or not he’s on the verge of going soft. That seems a bit odd considering that “Colonel Sun” is very much a standard issue Bond adventure that’s closer in tone, plot and spirit to some of the early Bond film adventures such as “Doctor No” and “From Russia With Love” with greater reliance on spy raft and less reliance on the gadgets that became more prominent later in the film series. The latest edition features a forward by the now-unmasked Amis, who devotes a good portion of it to trashing the Bond films. Following the death of Ian Fleming, Kingsley Amis took up the mantle of writing the next James Bond novel, and wrote Colonel Sun under the pen name Robert Markham.