Which author using the pen name Robert Markham wrote a James Bond book called 'Colonel Sun' after the death of Ian Fleming?
"based upon) Fleming's continuity, such is not the case with Pearson's book, along with the continuation novel ""Colonel Sun"", by Kingsley Amis, (to which Pearson refers). As those books occur in the same time as Fleming's Bond novels, their being canonical with Fleming's books is debatable, yet Pan Books, one British publisher of Bond novels, includes Pearson's book, ""James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007"", as an official series entry of their first paperback edition series. James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (laterJames Bond: The Authorised Biography) by John Pearson, is a"
"edition of this book was published with a false slipcover printed with the title ""The Bible to be Read as Literature"". In one of the early Bond novels, Bond carries his gun in a hollowed out book of this title. Amis, a close friend of Fleming's, was also responsible for two other works related to the James Bond series. In 1965, he wrote ""The James Bond Dossier"", a collection of essays on the book and film series, and in 1968, under the pseudonym Robert Markham, he wrote the Bond novel ""Colonel Sun"". The Book of Bond The Book of Bond"
"James Bond novels, which he admired, in the late 1960s, when he began composing critical works connected with the fictional spy, either under a pseudonym or uncredited. In 1965, he wrote the popular ""The James Bond Dossier"" under his own name. That same year, he wrote ""The Book of Bond, or, Every Man His Own 007"", a tongue-in-cheek how-to manual about being a sophisticated spy, under the pseudonym ""Lt Col. William ('Bill') Tanner"", Tanner being M's Chief of Staff in many of Fleming's Bond novels. In 1968 Amis wrote ""Colonel Sun"", which was published under the pseudonym ""Robert Markham"". Amis's"
"Markham"" in 1968, several authors have been commissioned to write Bond novels, including Sebastian Faulks, who was asked by Ian Fleming Publications to write a new Bond novel in observance of what would have been Fleming's 100th birthday in 2008. During his lifetime Fleming sold thirty million books; double that number were sold in the two years following his death. In 2008 ""The Times"" ranked Fleming fourteenth on its list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". In 2002 Ian Fleming Publications announced the launch of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award, presented by the Crime Writers' Association"
"Kingsley Amis (as Robert Markham) and published in 1968. Amis had already written a literary study of Fleming's Bond novels in his 1965 work ""The James Bond Dossier"". Although novelizations of two of the Eon Productions Bond films appeared in print, ""James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me"" and ""James Bond and Moonraker"", both written by screenwriter Christopher Wood, the series of novels did not continue until the 1980s. In 1981 the thriller writer John Gardner picked up the series with ""Licence Renewed"". Gardner went on to write sixteen Bond books in total; two of the books he wrote –"
"pseudonym Robert Markham was published in 1968 as the first adult continuation novel following Ian Fleming's ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965). Geoffrey Jenkins was given a job in the Foreign Department of Kemsley Newspapers, an organisation owned by the London ""Sunday Times"", by Viscount Kemsley. There he worked with Ian Fleming, who was the Foreign Manager of the department, and the two men became friends. In a letter to John Pearson in 1965 when he was researching his biography on Ian Fleming, ""The Life of Ian Fleming"", Jenkins revealed that in the late 1950s he had discussed the"
"continuation Bond novel; Amis had previously produced ""The James Bond Dossier""—a critical analysis of the Bond books—under his own name, and ""The Book of Bond"", a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective agents, using the pseudonym Lt.-Col. William (""Bill"") Tanner. For the pseudonym, Peter Fleming - Ian Fleming's brother - initially suggested ""George Glidrose"". Jonathan Cape rejected this name, claiming that it had no selling or publicity power. Markham was then chosen. Despite this, Amis's involvement as continuation author was not a secret; American editions of the book identified Amis as the author, though the main Robert Markham credit remained. Amis had"
"""Colonel Sun"", saying ""he is the same darkly handsome man first introduced in ""Casino Royale"""". After Gardner and Benson had followed Amis, there was a gap of six years until Sebastian Faulks was commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to write a new Bond novel, which was released on 28 May 2008, the one hundredth anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth. The book—entitled ""Devil May Care""—was published in the UK by Penguin Books and by Doubleday in the US. Faulks ignored the timeframe established by Gardner and Benson and instead reverted to that used by Fleming and Amis, basing his novel in"
"since ""Colonel Sun"" nearly a decade earlier. Christopher Wood, himself a novelist, and who co-authored the screenplay with Richard Maibaum, was commissioned to write the book, which was given the title ""James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me"". Wood would also novelize the screenplay for the next Bond film, ""Moonraker"" in 1979. The novelization and the screenplay, although both written by Wood, are somewhat different. In the novelization SMERSH has been reactivated some time before the start of the novel, and is still after James Bond. Their part in the novelization begins during the ""pre-title credits"" sequence, in which Bond"
"introduced to a retired James Bond — who is in his fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, and married to Honeychile Ryder, the heroine of ""Dr. No"". Most of ""James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007"" is Bond telling his life story, including school and first MI6 missions, referring to most every novel and short story and, briefly, to ""Colonel Sun"", the Robert Markham series-continuation novel. At conclusion, as Bond rushes to another mission (contrary to mandatory retirement), John Pearson is invited to assume Ian Fleming's scribal duties, like Dr. Watson assumed with Sherlock Holmes. Out of print since the 1990s, a"
"Sun"". The boat Bond uses—""The Altair""—was the name of the boat Amis and his wife used on holiday, whilst the Bond girl's fictitious colleagues, ""Legakis"" and ""Papadogonas"" were friends who helped Amis in Greece, whilst the doctor who treats Bond in Chapter two was named after Amis and Jane's own doctor. In a 21 May 1967 letter to Philip Larkin, Amis mentioned that he had already finished writing the Bond novel. Jonathan Cape published ""Colonel Sun"" on 28 March 1968; the book was 255 pages long and priced at a guinea. The novel sold well – journalist and author Eric"
"that her character was originally to have been named Gala Brand. Moonraker (novel) Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955 and featured a cover design conceived by Fleming. The plot is derived from a Fleming screenplay that was too short for a full novel so he added the passage of the bridge game between Bond and the industrialist Hugo Drax. In the latter half of the novel, Bond is seconded to Drax's staff as the businessman"
"of Bond in a different way. James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based"
"James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based on a number of commandos whom"
"locations in the movies in the dynamics of the Cold War, with power struggles among blocs playing out in the peripheral areas. Other critics claim that the Bond films reflect imperial nostalgia. American conservative critics, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, saw Bond as a nihilistic, hedonistic, and amoral character that challenged family values. James Bond The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelizations:"
"James Bond filmography Commander James Bond RN—code number 007—is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1952. The character appeared in a series of twelve novels and two short story collections written by Fleming and a number of continuation novels and spin-off works after Fleming's death in 1964. There have been twenty-six films in total, produced between 1962 and 2015. Fleming portrayed Bond as a tall, athletic, handsome secret agent in his thirties or forties; he has several vices including drinking, smoking, gambling, automobiles and womanising. He is an exceptional marksman, and skilled in"
"Ian Fleming, died in the early morning of 12 August 1964, eight months before the posthumous publication of ""The Man with the Golden Gun"". After his death, Glidrose Productions (now Ian Fleming Publications) held the rights to Fleming's works. The company decided to publish two short stories, ""Octopussy"" and ""The Living Daylights"", on 23 June 1966. As the Bond character could not be copyrighted, and to retain rights in the Bond product, Glidrose decided to commission a sequel. Initially the company approached author James Leasor to write a continuation novel, but he declined. Glidrose then commissioned Amis, who wrote ""Colonel"
"Benson, who wrote six novels, three novelizations and three short stories. There have also been other authors who wrote one book each, Kingsley Amis (writing as Robert Markham), Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd, and Anthony Horowitz. Additionally, a series of novels based on Bond's youth – ""Young Bond"" – was written by Charlie Higson. As spin-offs from the literary works, there was a television adaptation of the first novel, ""Casino Royale"", in which Bond was played as an American agent. A comic strip series also ran in the ""Daily Express"" newspaper. There have been 26 Bond films; seven actors"
"and becomes a bore."" Beauman complains that the story lacks suspense and that Bond is far too gloomy: he's more like Ingmar Bergman's creations than Ian Fleming's hero. Beauman attributes the novel's failure to the ""differing characters of the authors."" ""Colonel Sun"" was serialised on a daily basis in the ""Daily Express"" newspaper from 18 March 1968 to 30 March 1968. ""Colonel Sun"" is the only non-Fleming Bond novel adapted as a comic strip by the ""Daily Express"" newspaper. It was adapted by Jim Lawrence and drawn by Yaroslav Horak and published in the ""Daily Express"" from 1 December 1969"
"Moonraker (novel) Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955 and featured a cover design conceived by Fleming. The plot is derived from a Fleming screenplay that was too short for a full novel so he added the passage of the bridge game between Bond and the industrialist Hugo Drax. In the latter half of the novel, Bond is seconded to Drax's staff as the businessman builds the Moonraker, a prototype missile designed to defend England. Unknown"
"""Colonel Sun"", M is kidnapped from Quarterdeck, his home, and Bond goes to great lengths to rescue him. The later continuation books, written by John Gardner, retain Sir Miles Messervy as M, who protects Bond from the new, less aggressive climate in the Secret Service, saying that at some point Britain will need ""a blunt instrument"". In Gardner's final novel, ""COLD"", M is kidnapped and rescued by Bond and finishes the book by retiring from MI6. Continuation Bond author Raymond Benson's 1998 novel ""The Facts of Death"" continued Messervy's retirement, where he still resides in Quarterdeck. The book also introduces"
"Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing. While working for Britain's Naval Intelligence Division during the Second"
"James Bond and Moonraker James Bond and Moonraker is a novelization by Christopher Wood of the James Bond film ""Moonraker"". Its name was changed to avoid confusion with Fleming's novel. It was released in 1979. British Secret Service agent James Bond, codename 007, must prevent Sir Hugo Drax's plan to murder the entire human race and then restart humanity from outer space. The screenplay of ""Moonraker"" differed so much from Ian Fleming's novel that Eon Productions authorised the film's screenwriter, Christopher Wood to write a novelization based upon the film, as he had done for ""The Spy Who Loved Me""."
"Licence Renewed Licence Renewed, first published in 1981, is the first novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. It was the first proper James Bond novel (not counting novelizations and a faux biography) since Kingsley Amis's ""Colonel Sun"" in 1968. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Richard Marek, a G. P. Putnam's Sons imprint. The release of ""Licence Renewed"" successfully relaunched the Bond literary franchise, being the first of 14 original novels by Gardner until his retirement in 1996. In"
"In thriller writing, Ian Fleming created the character James Bond 007 in January 1952, while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953), ""Live and Let Die"" (1954), ""Dr. No"" (1958), ""Goldfinger"" (1959), ""Thunderball"" (1961), ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1962), and nine short story works. In contrast to the larger-than-life spy capers of Bond, John le Carré was an author of spy novels who depicted a shadowy world of espionage and counter-espionage, and his best known novel ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"" (1963), is often regarded"
"in the attic, come over and I'll lend you mine."" The ""Los Angeles Times"" critic claimed that Ian Fleming ""would have cringed at the writing to be found in this book."" Despite this, Wood's novel became a bestseller, remaining on ""The Times"" bestseller list for some time. After the release of the novel, Eon Productions chose not to commission novelizations of the next few Bond films; not until ""Licence to Kill"" ten years later in 1989. James Bond and Moonraker James Bond and Moonraker is a novelization by Christopher Wood of the James Bond film ""Moonraker"". Its name was changed"
"of preposterous, cosmic story-line which might have occurred to Ian."" Traditional Bond elements such as M, Miss Moneypenny and Universal Exports also appear, though the story contains lots of sex, unlike other Bond novels. Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, died on 12 August 1964 of a heart attack. His brother Peter Fleming, himself also an author and occasional novelist, was a director of Glidrose Publications, the corporate entity Ian Fleming had established to administer the Bond copyright. Donald McCormick describes Peter Fleming as ""level-headed"" and ""down-to-earth."" In October 1970 a retired 73-year-old bank officer - only identified"
"a serialized reading by Rupert Penry-Jones in October and November 2015. Trigger Mortis Trigger Mortis is a 2015 James Bond novel written by Anthony Horowitz, and commissioned by the estate of Bond's creator Ian Fleming, which was published on 8 September 2015. The book is set in 1957 against the backdrop of the Space Race, and begins two weeks after the events of ""Goldfinger"". The novel is the third in the current-era literary series to be set during the original timeline created by Fleming since 1968's ""Colonel Sun"" (following ""Devil May Care"" by Sebastian Faulks and ""Solo"" by William Boyd)"
"DoubleShot DoubleShot, first published in 2000, was the sixth novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including film novelizations). Carrying the Ian Fleming Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam. The novel's working title was ""Doppelganger"". ""DoubleShot"", the second novel in Raymond Benson's ""Union"" trilogy, again sets James Bond, 007 against the evil terrorist organization called the Union. Still smarting from their last encounter with 007 when he foiled their plans to get Skin 17 in ""High Time to Kill"", the Union"
"era and was published on 28 May 2011. On 11 April 2012 it was announced that William Boyd would write the next James Bond novel, entitled ""Solo"", set at the end of the 1960s. The novel was released in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2013, and in the United States and Canada on 8 October 2013. Written by the pseudonymous R. D. Mascott, it was the first James Bond related book not written by Ian Fleming to be published after Fleming's death. To this day, Ian Fleming Publications has never disclosed or confirmed the author's identity. Written by Fleming's"
"Scorpius (novel) Scorpius, first published in 1988, is the seventh novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton (the first original Bond novel not to be published by Jonathan Cape) and in the United States by Putnam. After being connected to the death of a woman in London, Bond is called in by M to aid the investigation. Returning from Hereford, Special Air Service Sergeant Pearlman tags along by driving Bond back, during which they are attacked and involved in"
"loosely based on the novel. The film starred Roger Moore as Bond and Fleming's cousin, Christopher Lee, as Scaramanga. The film moved away from Jamaica to the Far East and borrowed from the martial arts genre that was popular in the 1970s. The plot also changed and used the 1973 energy crisis as a backdrop to the film, allowing the MacGuffin of the ""Solex agitator"" to be introduced. The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) The Man with the Golden Gun is the twelfth novel (and thirteenth book) of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. It was first published by Jonathan"
"and background and provided 'a Flemingesque hero' who drove a battleship grey 1967 T-series Bentley. Next, Ian Fleming Publications commissioned Jeffery Deaver to write ""Carte Blanche"", which was published in May 2011. In April 2012, the company announced that William Boyd would write the next Bond novel and Jonathan Cape in the UK and HarperCollins in Canada and the US published ""Solo"" in 2013. Anthony Horowitz's ""Trigger Mortis"" appeared in September 2015. Between 2005 and 2008, Ian Fleming Publications has supported the publication of Charlie Higson's five ""Young Bond"" novels telling the adventures of a teenage James Bond in the"