![]() The book is very well written and provides a scenario which tests Bond to his physical limits. ![]() He was therefore a logical choice to continue the series. He had written two books about the series – The James Bond Dossier and The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 (using the pseudonym of M’s chief-of-staff, Lt-Col William (‘Bill’) Tanner). Amis, a respected author in his own right ( Lucky Jim, The Green Man, etc.), was a friend of Fleming’s and a fan of the series. 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.Ĭomment: This is the first continuation James Bond novel commissioned by Ian Fleming’s estate. 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. This paperback edition published by Vintage, 2012, 344pp (317pp)īlurb: 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. ![]() ![]() By Kingsley Amis (writing as Robert Markham) ![]()
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