Colonel Sun was the first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming. Penned by one of Britain's finest writers, Kingsley Amis, this new edition celebrates the novel's 55th anniversary. Released on October 5th, James Bond Day, this edition features a new foreword by Anthony Horowitz.
Bond finds himself on an urgent 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. Can 007 avert their world-menacing plans and escape the sadistic fate Colonel Sun has in store for him?
Over de auteur
Robert Markham was the pseudonym of Kingsley Amis. 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.
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