Colonel Sun
1968Bond, James (Fictitious character)Fiction, thrillers, espionageBond, james (fictitious character), fictionFictionIntelligence service
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Open LibraryAbout this book
The life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency... until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island, where Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of China collaborates with an ex-Nazi atrocity expert in a world-menacing conspiracy. Stripped of all professional aids, Bond faces, unarmed, the monstrous devices of Colonel Sun in a test that brings him to the verge of his physical endurance.
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Bond, James (Fictitious character)Fiction, thrillers, espionageBond, james (fictitious character), fictionFictionIntelligence serviceJames Bond (Fictitious character)
First published 1968Characters & people
Setting
Athens (Greece)Great BritainGreece
About the author
Kingsley Amis
16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995
KingsleyAmis, the author of *Lucky Jim*, was born in the south of London in 1922. His first interest in literature was in the field of poetry. At the age of eleven he was writing verse, at the university he was one of the editors of *Oxford Poetry 1949*, and his own poetry has been published in two books: *A Frame of Mind* and *A Case of Samples*. His name is often to be seen in British newspapers and magazines as the writer of articles and reviews. Lucky Jim, published in 1954, was Amis's first novel. It was something so different, so fresh and so brilliantly clever that the critics welcomed it with excitement. Kingsley Amis is a university lecturer in English. In Lucky Jim he takes us in…
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