Colonel Sun - Robert Markham

Of the authors who have attempted to write James Bond novels in the wake of Ian Fleming, by far the most successful was Kingsley Amis - the man responsible for 1968's Colonel Sun under the pseudonym Robert Markham. You could reasonably argue that Colonel Sun is actually better than many of Fleming's own lesser works and it effortlessly peers down on the later literary 007 offerings by John Gardner and Raymond Benson from a considerable height. The book begins in high style with a gripping and tense development that surprisingly has yet to be pilfered outright by those resident geniuses at Eon. James Bond, after a nice lunch and some golf with friend and colleague Bill ...  Read the complete review