5/26/2023 0 Comments Colonel sun robert markham![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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