Colonel Sun

Zusatztext

<p><b>First published in 1968, four years after Ian Flemings death, this was the first Bond continuation novel, penned by one of Britains finest novelists, Kingsley Amis.</b></p><p>A man in my line of business shouldnt work to a timetable</p><p>Lunch at Scott's, a quiet game of golf, a routine social call on his chief M James Bonds life has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacencyuntil the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped and his house staff savagely murdered. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island where, stripped of all professional aids, Bond must avert a world-menacing conspiracy and face unarmed the monstrous devices of the glacial, merciless Colonel Sun.</p>

Autorenportrait

Kingsley 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<i>Lucky Jim</i>in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award,<i>The Old Devils</i>, 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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