Colonel Sun — Robert Markham

Published in 1968, four years after Ian Fleming's death, Colonel Sun was the first Bond 'continuation' novel, penned by one of Britain's finest novelists, Kingsley Amis.'A man in my line of business shouldn't work to a timetable'Lunch at Scott's, a quiet game of golf, a routine social call on his chief M â€" James Bond's life has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency. Until 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 007 must avert a world-menacing conspiracy and confront the monstrous devices of the merciless Colonel Sun. Unarmed and stripped of all professional aids, Bond faces a test that brings him to the verge of his physical endurance.