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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Colonel Sun by Robert Markham. Kingsley Amis. Robert Markham. The life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 complacency The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island, where Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 collaborates with an ex-Nazi atrocity expert in a world-menacing conspiracy. Stripped of all p The life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency Stripped of all Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 aids, Bond faces, unarmed, the monstrous devices of Colonel Sun in a test that brings him to the verge of his physical endurance. Get A Copy. Published November 1st by Blackstone Audiobooks first published March 28th More Details Original Title. James Bond - Extended Series Aegean Islands Greece. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Colonel Sunplease sign up. Jeff Correll Vintage Books just put out an edition. Amazon has several different editions available. Check them. See 2 questions about Colonel Sun…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 review of Colonel Sun James Bond, Apr 17, F. There was all that fuss the other year about Sebastian Faulks, an actual literary author unlike John Gardner or Raymond Benson being hired to write a James Bond novel. Wasn't it incredible? Proof of the high esteem in which Fleming's writing is held. But ignored in all the coverage was that the Fleming estate had hired a literary author to write a James Bond novel before. One of the things about books like There was all that fuss the other year about Sebastian Faulks, an actual literary author unlike John Gardner or Raymond Benson being hired to write a James Bond novel. One of the things about books like this is that a certain level of pastiche is inevitable. And on this score, Kingsley Amis a writer not traditionally known for his thrillers does Fleming perfectly. He really captures that mix of sex, sadism and the lash — as well as all the excessive consumption that James Bond does so well. Indeed both writers throughout their work gradually become more hard core conservative and reactionary. No doubt if Fleming had lived, Mrs Thatcher would have given him a knighthood too. What more could anyone really want? View all 15 Colonel Sun: James Bond 007. Lost a star for the anti-Chinese racism. Apr 15, Alexander McNabb rated it did not like it. Where do I start? Because Kindles let you do crazy stuff like this, I bought all of Fleming's Bond books and binge- read them. This was interesting as an exercise as it revealed Fleming's preoccupations, booze, misogyny and bigotry very much included. They bear down on the reader with considerable weight. You stagger away from the experience with the impression that Ian Fleming was a really unpleasant wee man who Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 discovered, much as had Elizabeth David, the rewards of offering escapism to the Where do I start? You stagger away from the experience with the impression that Ian Fleming was a really unpleasant wee man who had discovered, much as had Elizabeth David, the rewards of offering escapism to the post-war British. Casino Royale happened to a generation of people still coping with rationing, to whom Bond's Krug-guzzling, leggy blonde fondling, avocado- scooping lifestyle was wonderful indeed. As we started to face the realities of the End of Empire, Bond made us feel relevant. In the s we needed heroes and leggy women in fast cars to liven up our brown world of weak tea, powdered egg and fag smoke. Then Fleming's hooch and nicotine consumption got the better of him and his publishers, faced with that most feared of all publishing disasters - a dead cash cow - farmed Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 the Bond franchise. The first writer of these non-Fleming Bonds was Robert Markham, as eny fule no these days, we're actually talking celebrated satirist and literary giant Kingsley Amis. The whole thing is so very badly done, the writing, dialogue and characters so stilted and the situations so very wooden, that you wonder but then you pull back and debate whether writing very, very badly is the stuff of satire. If this is satire, then it is very subtle indeed for its time - we're looking at fifty-odd years before The Office. Have a look at this - an action scene: "Bond dropped to his knees, shoved out of the way the legs of the man he had stabbed, got his finger through the brass ring of the trapdoor and heaved it aside. The roar of well-tuned machinery and an engine-room smell came up at him. He moved to the deck immediately outside the doorway and there, swiftly and methodically drew from the pouches at his waist the four Mills grenades. Again he made no delay, but with quick deft movements grasped one grenade after another in his right hand, drew out the safety-pin with his left index finger, and tossed all four down the hatchway before the seven-second fuse of the first had had time to release the firing-pin. Then it came, a monstrous pounding, shivering bang underfoot that made the deck boards leap as if struck with a massive hammer, the buzz of flying metal, a wash of flame above the hatchway. It's just not very good. He could hear the roar of fuel-fired combustion. Something aft went up with a kind of puffing bellow and bunch of flame, intensely orange Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 colour, jerked and eddied outwards. He tried to push the thought out of his mind. It was necessary, he told himself. It was duty. Throughout the book, the writing's at best pedestrian. Bond walks quickly and stomachs lurch suddenly, bellies betray no sign Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 fat and calculations are made in split seconds. Reluctantly, I came to the conclusion that no, we're not looking at satire here. We're looking at someone trying to give Bond readers what they want. That finding the good aspects of Bond is rather like searching haystacks perhaps doesn't help. To sum up the plot: nothing much really happens because there's no reason really for anything to happen. M is kidnapped and Bond goes on holiday in Greece. There's a bad Chinese guy and a good Greek guy. There are various other guys who sort of pop in and out. We muck around in boats, eat Greek food and lament the Greeks are quite as lazy and crap as they are, apart from busty Greek bird Ariadne who Bond turns from Communism to enthusiastic screwing - something they indulge in at every opportunity. There are lashings of ouzo. The bad Chinese guy wants to torture Bond to satisfy the code of the Chinese or something. There are more girls. They are Albanian and so like to screw men. There's a man who's a fairy. Oh, yes, I know this is of its time, but still The Chinese are very chinky-winky, the girls are all winky-winky and the fat fairies are very Tinkywinky. It's all so obvious and, well, wearying. I started Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 notes after a while, realising that the only thing keeping me going was that the whole thing was so monumentally bad that it was worth the effort just for the celebration of its total crapness. I finally, with an enormous sigh of relief, got to the end. Colonel Sun | Fanon Wiki | Fandom

Colonel Tan-Sun Moonlater known as Sir Gustav Graveswas a fictional North Korean military colonel who attempted to unite the Korean peninsula under his county's flag. After his presumed death at the hands of James Bondhe changed his appearance to infiltrate the society he intended to destroy; becoming a charismatic diamond magnate. He was also featured in Raymond Benson 's accompanying novelisation and was re-imagined for Activision 's James Bond video game, Legends. In a hope that a Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 education would help bridge the gap between East and West, General Moon sent his son to study at Oxford and Harvard. It was an experience which would prove formative on the young Moon, providing him with the contacts which he would later use; including Miranda Frost who was on also on the Harvard fencing team. He was able to bring Frost to his side by arranging her to win the Olympic Gold Medal in fencing by implicating her competitor for using steroids. General Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 would later regret the decision, coming to believe that his son had become corrupted by the ideas and greed of the West. He also had assistance from a fellow Korean officer named Tang Lin Zao. MI6 becomes aware of his activities, however, and dispatches three agents, including James Bond, to assassinate Moon by intercepting and replacing a diamond smuggler named Van Bierk. When Zao finds out Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 Bond is in truth a British spy sent to kill him, Moon uses to destroy the helicopter Bond arrived in with one of his high-tech weapons, called Tankbuster, killing the two remaining agents. Before he can kill Bond too, Moon is told that General Moon is about to arrive at the base. The Colonel and his men then quickly leave the base with the hovercrafts and weapons, so that his father doesn't find out about his weapon dealing. He leaves Bond to be shot by his men but the agent escapes by blowing up the diamond suitcase, having implanted a bomb earlier, and fleeing with the last remaining hovercraft. Pursuing Moon, Bond has to fight off many Korean soldiers while being shot at by Moon with his Tankbuster and a flamethrower. Eventually jumping onto Moon's hovercraft, Bond attacks the young military and the two fight long Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 for the hovercraft to reach a cliff. Without a pilot to steer it the hovercraft drives right over the cliff into the river far below. Bond is able to jump off in time, but Moon is dragged over the cliff and presumed deceased. Right after, Bond is arrested by General Moon and his soldiers, and brought to a North Korean torture camp where he is brutally interrogated for before being exchanged for Zao, who had been arrested by the British. Unknown to the rest of Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 world - including his own father - Moon survives the incident and flees to Cuba, where he undergoes DNA replacement therapy provided by Dr. Alvarez to alter his appearance to make Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 appear to be of European descent. Emerging from the therapy, he completed his transformation and adopted the name Gustav Graves. Gustav Graves was seen as a sophisticated, sarcastic, rude and arrogant business man. In a conversation with Bond later in the film, he admits that he modeled this new - disgusting - identity after him. He portrays himself to the world as an ecologist, fencing champion and adrenalin-junkie, with a penchant for speed. Activities which he has plenty of time for, given that the gene therapy has robbed him of the ability to sleep. His official story was that he was an orphan who worked in diamond mines in Argentina ; from there, he learned engineering and founded the Graves Corporation. He discovered a great mine of diamonds in Iceland and made a huge fortune. In reality, his fortune was made using a fake diamond mine as a front for laundering African conflict diamonds and his Icarus satellite is a super-weapon. The main purpose of Icarus was to blast its way through the heavily-fortified demilitarized zone, providing a pathway for the invading North Korean forces and bringing about Korean unification. Brought on Graves' trace through blood diamonds he found with Zao, Bond - unaware of Graves' true identity - Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 to London, where he witnesses Graves arriving at the Buckingham Palace by parachute before he is knighted by the Queen. Later that day, Bond visits the fencing academy where Graves is training and manages to persuade the fight trainer Verity to arrange a match with Graves. When being introduced to Graves, the villain asks whether they have met before, to which Bond responds by stating he would remember. Graves admits that he is mistaking. Driven by their arrogance, both men then engage in their training match, betting money on the Colonel Sun: James Bond 007. When Graves asks Bond if he still wants to continue, Bond proposes to up the wager, showing him one of the blood diamonds he got from Zao. When continuing their fight, Bond cuts Graves Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 the hand, pausing their fight to continue. When Bond mockingly- affably asks Graves whether he wants to continue, Graves responds that of course he wants to "bloody continue", but proposes that they use real swords and fight till first blood drawn from the torso. They engage in a furious duel, where both men are cut multiple times. Fighting their way through the club, changing their weapons multiple times. Eventually hammering at each others with medieval claymores, they continue their fight in the outer parts of the club, Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 Bond finally Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 Graves at the stomach, thereby throwing him into a fountain. Graves emerges furiously but before he can continue the fight, Miranda Frost stops them. Graves laughs and admits that Bond beat him and the men shake hands. Before they leave, Graves, as a token of good sportsmanship, invites Bond to his Icarus Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 in Iceland at the next weekend. When Bond arrives at Graves' Ice Palace at Iceland, Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 palace made from pure ice only built for the demonstration of Icarus, he is greeted by Graves and his security head Mr. While the guests entertain themselves inside, Graves is using his dream machine. He is interrupted by a man who is revealed to be Zao. Seeing his old friend for the first time after Zao's departure, Graves looks at his unfinished face and asks him who did that. Zao responds that it is Bond's work Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 Graves gleefully tells him that he has met Bond and Bond did not recognize him at all. Graves then asks Zao of news of his father and Zao tells him that General Moon still mourns his death. The guests are then called for the presentation. Graves then presents Icarus, telling them that it will be used to bring light to the darkest places on earth and is able to warm even the coldest places to grow crops, therefor being a mean to end world hunger. He then uses Icarus to illuminate the entire palace, causing giant applause from the guests. When NSA agent Jinxwho has also reached Island, breaks into the complex where Graves' chambers are located to kill Graves, she expects to find him under the dream machine's mask. However, when she takes the mask off, Zao looks at her and Graves attacks her from behind, wearing the prototype of his Icarus suit. After saving Jinx from Zao, Bond heads to Graves' office where he waits for his old enemy. When Graves arrives, Bond tells him that he knows his true identity, based on Zao's presence and the lack of alternative explanations for the dream machine's presence. Graves mocks him, telling him he thought that Bond would never get it. He then reveals to Bond that while they only met briefly, Bond had made a lasting impression on him, causing him to model his new identity Gustav Graves after the MI6 agent. Graves remarks seemingly defeated that Miranda seems to be not the one she claims to be. Bond agrees, but then Graves asks whether he has found out who betrayed him in North Korea and if it never occurred to him to look inside Colonel Sun: James Bond 007. Miranda then aims her gun at Bond, revealing herself as the traitor. Graves also reveals that he knows of Jinx and says that a tragedy will befall her soon. Graves shows the assembled North Korean hardliner generals the true power of Icarus. When Bond is about to be killed, Bond goads Zao into hitting him into stomach Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 order to allow him to fall to the ground. Using a special ring he got from MI6's quartermaster, he breaks the glass panel that covers the entire floor in order to fall into the lower floor. As Bond runs off, Graves orders Zao to follow and kill him but Bond escapes with Graves' speeder, driving off into the ice plains at insane speed. He then has Icarus produce a gargantuan heat beam, which Bond can only escape because of his vehicle's enormous speed. When Bond drives off a cliff, hanging there only on the breaking hook of the speeder, Graves has Icarus cut off the entire cliff. Though Bond survives, Graves believes him to be dead. Preparing to return to North Korea, Graves leaves Zao at the palace to oversee the final preparations. He, Miranda and most of his men then leave the palace, leaving Zao only with a minimal force. Returning to the palace for Jinx, Bond sees their escape plane arrive. On the plane, Graves uses Icarus to destroy his ice palace, destroying any evidence left. After this, he tells his engineer Vlad to complete the Icarus suit. Having fled to a North Korean airbase, Graves plans to use Icarus to destroy the minefield in the demilitarized zone, allowing North Korean forces to attack the South. As General Moon wouldn't allow this war, the hardliners staged a coup and put the general under arrest. Bond and Jinx are sent to stop Graves. When the USA sends a missile to destroy Icarus, Graves uses the satellite's power to disintegrate it mid- air. Unable to assassinate Graves at the airbase, Jinx and Bond are forced to board Graves' plane. On-board the plane, Graves and the generals are inside a planning room, where Graves admires the finished Icarus suit. He tells his men to have his father brought down. When General Moon arrives, Graves addresses him, but as his face is changed General Moon does not recognize him. When Moon tells him that he does not now him, Graves says that Moon always found it difficult to accept him, which made his exile easier to bear. He then quotes his father, which makes Moon realises that the man next to him is his son. However, he is deeply shocked, asking what his son did to himself. Graves Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 tells his father to Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 the rising of his son and activates Icarus to destroy the minefield. However, opposed to Graves, Moon is disgusted by the heat beam as he knows this would mean war, with the Americans presumably sending nuclear warheads. Finally realizing what his son Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 become, Moon grabs a gun from General Han and points it at his son's head. Graves asks his father whether he would kill his own son. When Moon claims that his son died long ago, Graves disarms him with the electricity glove of his Icarus suit and shoots him. He then sees Bond walking towards him and about to shoot him, but a henchman intervenes and the bullet hits the plane's window instead, causing it to break, sucking out everyone except Bond Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 Graves. Graves and Bond then fight in the remains of the room, with Graves eventually overpowers Bond with his shock glove, Graves takes the plane's two parachutes Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 throws one out of the window. Intending to leave Bond to die in the plane crash, Graves kneels down next to Bond for one last gloat. As he leans over the fallen spy to gloat, reaches out and yanks the parachute's release cord; causing Graves to be pulled through a hole in the fuselage. As Moon desperately clings onto the edge of the chassis, Bond reaches out and activates the suit's electric defenses causing Moon to shock himself. He loses his grip and is sucked - along with the controls for the Icarus - into the Autonov's jet engine. With the destruction of his suit, Icarus is rendered harmless. He has the likeness of is and voiced by Toby Stephens, but no reference is made to his past as Colonel Moon, implying that he was born Gustav Graves. The only exception to this theory is that a bust of Colonel Moon's head can be seen on Graves's cargo plane. Colonel Sun - Wikipedia

May 6, by Kathryn Smith. As I delved into the first chapter of the first continuation novel Kingsley Amis writing as Robert Markham begins Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 having Bond reflect on how he is has no major assignments and that his life has become so routine. It is interesting as many of us in our everyday lives fall into repetitive habits; some like this and others get easily bored and restless. You can detect that Bond is starting to fall into the latter of the two. It is re-enforced further when Bond expresses this to Tanner during a game of golf, whilst being watched from a distance by a henchman. This is also a lesson to the reader as well, Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 getting into a routine means that you are not aware of what is going on around you, especially regarding your safety. Even though Bond sensed that he was being followed his senses were not as sharp as they would have been in the field. Bond is ambushed after finding M upstairs drugged and in a weakened state, and needs to escape before being drugged himself. Awaking to discover his boss and the assailants gone, Bond informs Tanner. Tanner and Bond are to go over everything that has happened and Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 and establish where M could have been taken. After being grilled by Scotland Yard and Sir Ranald Rideout, Bond heads to Greece to find M and stop the sinister plan that is to unfold — to massacre attendees of a secret conference on the Greek island of Vrakonisi. The British government would be blamed, with Bond and M as scapegoats, leading to international retaliations. Whilst Bond is making preparations to rescue his boss, Amis cleverly introduces both the reader and M to the villain of the story, Colonel Sun. This contrasts with M, who does not hold back his distain by insulting Sun during their first meeting. Travelling to Athens, Bond meets and saves a Greek woman named Ariadne, who the reader discovers is working for the Russians. She is one difficult person to beat, even by a man. It could be argued that there is a hint of irony here as the East and West were rivals politically, economically and socially and yet two spies from different backgrounds agree to work together. That is until Ariadne convinces an old friend named Litsas to help them after mentioning a certain Von Richter; Litsas has a score to settle. Although time has been bought and a plan is conceived, Ariadne is unsuccessful in trying to convince Colonel-General Arenski of the KGB of what is going to happen. Instead Arenski clumsily decides to try and capture Bond. Suspecting a hidden agenda, Bond carries on with his mission regardless. But after reaching the hideout of Sun, where M is being held, Bond and the gang are captured. Once face to face with the enemy, Sun takes despicable delight in torturing Bond with an array of instruments. Sun calls Luisa, one Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 two prostitutes introduced earlier in the book, to taunt Bond by stripping for him before he is finished off. Once free Bond locates M, Litsas and Ariadne, defeats the henchman and pursues his target. I will admit this part of the novel somewhat parallels the scene in the film version of The Man With The Golden Gun where Bond had his final one-to-one stand-off against Scaramanga. So, mission accomplished, villains defeated and all is right with the world again with peace, harmony and nations working together to maintain this. And of course, Bond receiving his usually hearty pat on the back for a job well done from the British government officials with the added summary of details he and the reader are not aware of. Following one official thanks and congratulations, another Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 in the form of Mr Yermolov wishing to bestow on Bond the Order of the Red Banner. You can Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 Kathryn Smith on twitter: katsmithyy My apologies for posting here. I have tried to Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 you separately numerous times on a different email page, and it will not allow the message to be sent. Oh my goodness gracious please folks, I mean the average person is not that illiterate nor absent minded. Hence the new working title to reflect that his license is missing in action; or unjustifiable as its about his revenge sort of like a vigilante. Then I saw the word Revoked and realized its really not Renewed after all. So maybe there was that confusion and mishaps that led the producers to change the title. License Revoked. Sign up for our free monthly email newsletter and get the latest on James Bond direct in your inbox. 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