Colonel Sun: A James Bond Adventure

The first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964, this classic thriller follows James Bond on a mission to a small Aegean island to track down M’s kidnappers—the malign Colonel Sun Liang-tan and his ex-Nazi commander cohort, the deadly Von Richter.Lunch, a quiet game of golf, a routine social call on M, who is convalescing in his Regency house in Berkshire—thelife of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency, until the sunny afternoonwhen M is kidnapped and all of his house staff savagely murdered.The action ricochets across the globe, but quickly enough lands Bond on a volcanic Greek island, where themalign Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of China is collaborating with the ex-Nazi commander,Von Richter, in planning a world-dominating conspiracy. The stakes haveneverbeen higher, nor the dangers morecomplex. Bond’s allies—the beautiful, brown-haired Greekagent,Ariadne Alexandrou; along with a tough-as-nails former World War IIresistancefighter—are quickly neutralized by the venomous Colonel Sun. Alone and unarmed,faces off against these two nefariousvillains.Stripped of all professional aids, James Bondfaces thedeadlydevices of Colonel Sun and his Nazi cohort in atest that brings him to the verge of his physical abilities.