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Colonel Sun - by Kingsley Amis (Hardcover)

Colonel Sun - by  Kingsley Amis (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964, this classic thriller follows James Bond on a mission to a small Aegean island to track down M's kidnappers--the malign Colonel Sun Liang-tan and his ex-Nazi commander cohort, the deadly Von Richter.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964, this classic thriller follows James Bond on a mission to a small Aegean island to track down M's kidnappers--the malign Colonel Sun Liang-tan and his ex-Nazi commander cohort, the deadly Von Richter.</b> <p/>Lunch, a quiet game of golf, a routine social call on M, who is 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 all of his house staff savagely murdered. <p/>The action ricochets across the globe, but quickly enough lands Bond on a volcanic Greek island, where the malign Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of China is collaborating with the ex-Nazi commander, Von Richter, in planning a world-dominating conspiracy. The stakes have never been higher, nor the dangers more complex. Bond's allies--the beautiful, brown-haired Greek agent, Ariadne Alexandrou; along with a tough-as-nails former World War II resistance fighter--are quickly neutralized by the venomous Colonel Sun. Alone and unarmed, faces off against these two nefarious villains. <p/>Stripped of all professional aids, James Bond faces the deadly devices of Colonel Sun and his Nazi cohort in a test that brings him to the verge of his physical abilities.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Amis has all the ingredients for success: an exotic, troubled, international setting, a beautiful girl, frequent imbibings, and even more frequent killings."-- "New York Magazine"<br><br>"An exciting, violent, sadistic and sexy piece of reading."-- "The Daily Mirror"<br><br>"Colonel Sun is the kind of villain to make a Bondophile salivate."-- "Life Magazine"<br><br>"Mr. Amis has now given Bond back to the readers."-- "The New York Times"<br><br>"Vigorous, quite exciting. The action is quite well done."-- "The Observer (London)"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Kingsley Amis was an English novelist, poet, and satirist. He wrote more than twenty novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, as well as literary criticism. Amis has been called the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century. In 2008, the <i>Times</i> of London ranked Kingsley Amis thirteenth on their list of the fifty greatest British authors since 1945. He is the father of British novelist Martin Amis. Kingsley Amis died in 1995.

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