Colonel Sun: A James Bond Novel - Softcover

Amis, Kingsley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784871451 ISBN 13: 9781784871451

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2015

Synopsis

The first ever Bond continuation, originally published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, now finally back in print and published to coincide with the forthcoming Bond film Spectre.

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. 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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

   · "A literary event." --Guardian

   · "Ian Fleming would have been proud." --Irish Times

   · "Exciting, violent, sadistic and sexy." --Daily Mirror

   · "Outstandingly good." --Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784871451
• ISBN 13: 9781784871451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224