Colonel Sun
Sooner or later, as James Bond's followers have known, certain effects of his lifework would begin to show. The reflexes would be just as fast, the audacity as unflagging, but a man of Bond's intelligence and perception a certain speculative turn of mind was bound to develop. Inevitably, he would...
show more
Sooner or later, as James Bond's followers have known, certain effects of his lifework would begin to show. The reflexes would be just as fast, the audacity as unflagging, but a man of Bond's intelligence and perception a certain speculative turn of mind was bound to develop. Inevitably, he would begin to question not the clear necessity of his work but its cost in human lives and human values. Thus, within the old Bond a new Bond was destined to emerge . . . within the man of action, a man of feeling.
show less
Format: hardcover
Publish date: 1968
Publisher: Harper and Row
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
Series: James Bond (Extended Series) Movie novelization (#15)
Kingsley Amis, writing as Robert Markham, produced this, the first James Bond book written after Ian Fleming's death in 1964. Published in 1968, it sent the franchise into a 13-year coma, until John Gardner's License Renewed in 1981. All right, it isn't that bad. But it isn't that good, either. ...
Bond is dead, long live Bond! With Ian Fleming no longer in a position to write Bond, the estate of Fleming approached Kingsley Amis to continue the story with a new novel. Rumoured to have completed Fleming's last novel, The Man With the Golden Gun, Amis was maybe the natural choice.And to be hones...
Log in with Facebook 
