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Colonel Sun

Colonel Sun is a novel by Kingsley Amis published by Jonathan Cape on 28 March 1968 under the pseudonym "Robert Markham". It is the first James Bond continuation novel published after Ian Fleming died in 1964. The novel centres on the fictional British Secret Service operative James Bond and his mission to track down the kidnappers of M, his superior at…

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Author
Kingsley Amis writing as Robert Markham
Genre
Spy fiction
Publication date
28 March 1968
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Cover artist
Tom Adams
Language
English

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Colonel Sun

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Colonel Sun

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related to Plot · 37
Colonel Sun → Aegean Islands, An, Ariadne, Ariadne Alexandrou, As Gordienko, Athens, Bond, Bond's, Britain, Chinese People's Liberation Army, Finally, Gordienko's, Greek Communist, He, In, Intent, James Bond, Kidnappers, Litsas, Major Piotr Gordienko
related to Adaptations · 27
Colonel Sun → August, Bond, Colonel Sun Liang-tan, Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, Daily Express, Death, December, Die Another Day, Elements, Enough, Eon, Eon Productions, Fleming, In December, It, James Bond, Jim Lawrence, March, River, Spectre
related to Reception · 26
Colonel Sun → Amis, Baker, Benson, Bond, Donald Stanley, Fleming, Fleming's, He, Ingmar Bergman's, It, Life, Malcolm Bradbury, Many, Maurice Richardson, New York, Oberbeck, Roger Baker, Sally Beauman, Simon Gray, The Chicago Tribune
related to Characters · 23
Colonel Sun → After Bond, Amis's, Benson, Bond, Chinese, Chinese People's Liberation Army, Colonel Sun Liang-tan, Fleming, Francisco Scaramanga's, Golden Gun, In, Japan, MI6, On Her Majesty's Secret, Raymond Benson, Russia, Service, Special Activities Committee, Sun, Sūn Liángtǎn
related to Inspirations · 15
Colonel Sun → Amis, Ariadne's, Bond, Fleming, Greece, Greek, He, Jane, Jane's, Legakis, Papadogonas, September, Spetses, The, The Altair
related to history · 14
Colonel Sun → April, Books, Eric Hiscock, Financial Times, Harper, In June, It, Jonathan Cape, March, May, Row, The, The Washington Post's, US
related to Themes · 14
Colonel Sun → Benson, Black, Bond, China, Chinese, Cold War, Greece, In England Amis, Reflecting, Russians, Sino-Soviet, The, Tudor, TV
Author · 1
Colonel Sun → Kingsley Amis writing as Robert Markham
Cover artist · 1
Colonel Sun → Tom Adams
Genre · 1
Colonel Sun → Spy fiction

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Colonel SunAuthorKingsley Amis writing as Robert Markham1.00infobox
Colonel SunCover artistTom Adams1.00infobox
Colonel SunGenreSpy fiction1.00infobox
Colonel SunLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Colonel SunMedia typePrint (hardback & paperback)1.00infobox
Colonel SunOCLC5623193651.00infobox
Colonel SunPages255 pp (first edition, hardback)1.00infobox
Colonel SunPublication date28 March 19681.00infobox
Colonel SunPublication placeUnited Kingdom1.00infobox
Colonel SunPublisherJonathan Cape1.00infobox
Colonel SunSeriesJames Bond1.00infobox
Colonel Sunis anovel by Kingsley Amis published by Jonathan Cape on 28 March 1968 under the pseudonym0.90text

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