"Snelling’s original, full title for the 1964 edition of the ""Report"", which had been retitled by the publisher — against Snelling’s wishes. The new edition would also include discussions of the Kingsley Amis and John Gardner continuation novels, and the film series, which had been touched on only incidentally in the 1964 edition. In 1980, he wrote “Apropos Double O Seven” a preface to Double O Seven: James Bond Under the Microscope, but the revised, updated, and re-titled book went unpublished until 2007, when Ronald Payne, his literary executor, published it online; it includes a collection of Snelling–Payne correspondence. In"
"retirement for one final mission, but permission was not granted. Robert Markham Robert Markham is a pseudonym used by author Kingsley Amis to publish ""Colonel Sun"" in March 1968. The book was the first continuation James Bond novel following the death of Bond's creator, Ian Fleming. Following the death of Ian Fleming on 12 August 1964, the rights to the Bond novels were held by Glidrose Publications (now Ian Fleming Publications). After Glidrose released the remaining Fleming works—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights""—they decided to commission a sequel in order to retain rights 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"
"""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"
"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"
"Sun"", John Gardner wrote fourteen original novels and two novelizations, and Raymond Benson produced six original novels and three novelizations. Additionally, Christopher Wood had produced two novelizations of the Eon films, while Charlie Higson and Samantha Weinberg (as ""Kate Westbrook"") had also published Bond-related novels. Faulks stated that ""Devil May Care"" would be his only Bond book, saying: ""One tribute, one centenary, one book"", adding ""My contract did offer me a second go, but definitely not ... 'Once funny, twice silly, three times a slap', as the nanny saying goes. But I think it would be a good gig for"
"""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"
"comments reflect the declining relationship between Britain and America—in sharp contrast to the warm, co-operative relationship between Bond and Leiter in the earlier books. In the late 1950s the author Geoffrey Jenkins had suggested to Fleming that he write a Bond novel set in South Africa, and sent him his own idea for a plot outline which, according to Jenkins, Fleming felt had great potential. After Fleming's death, Jenkins was commissioned by Bond publishers Glidrose Productions to write a continuation Bond novel, ""Per Fine Ounce"", but it was never published. Starting with Kingsley Amis's ""Colonel Sun"", under the pseudonym ""Robert"
"Ian Fleming Publications administers all Fleming's literary works. After Fleming's death in 1964, the estate either commissioned or permitted new Bond works to be published. In 1968, Kingsley Amis published ""Colonel Sun"", under the pseudonym ""Robert Markham"". The company changed its name from Glidrose Productions to Glidrose Publications. Soon thereafter, in 1973, Glidrose sanctioned """" by John Pearson. In 1977 and again in 1979, Eon Productions authorized Christopher Wood to write novelisations of his scripts for the Bond films ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" and ""Moonraker"". In 1981 the James Bond book series was revived, with new novels written by"
"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"
"shift in the balance of world power away from two-party Cold War politics. To accentuate this idea of Oriental threat, the novel demonstrates a disregard by the Chinese for human life, a position similar to the treatment of the East in Fleming's ""Dr. No"". Black also notes an emotional and social sadness throughout ""Colonel Sun"". The social sadness is a reaction to the culture of modernity and mourning what was being lost in its place. This treatment by Amis is similar to Fleming's nostalgia in describing Paris in ""From a View to a Kill"". The original creator of James Bond,"
"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""."
"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"
"phase of the war was spent with the American Pacific Fleet in the last battles against Japan. Despite his work as a correspondent he still found time to write ""The Sun Shall Greet Them,"" (1941), ""Tunnel from Calais"" (1943), and ""Road to Tunis,"" (1944). After the war, he received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of his service during the conflict. Working for the ""Sunday Times"" foreign news service under former naval intelligence officer (and later creator of James Bond), Ian Fleming, Divine travelled widely. He claimed to be the only journalist to charge expenses for an"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Simon Jowett Simon Jowett is a British author and scriptwriter. His early work was in comics, as the writer of the James Bond stories ""Silent Armageddon"" (1993, drawn by John M. Burns) and ""Shattered Helix"" (1994, drawn by David Jackson, with colouring by David Lloyd) and as a contributor to ""2000AD"". He left comics largely behind in the mid-1990s, when he moved into script-writing for other media. He has worked on feature-length adaptations of children's fiction and has written scripts for a number of computer games, including the best-selling Fire Warrior and the landmark game/internet serial Halcyon Sun (with Jonathan"
"to 20 August 1970 and was subsequently syndicated worldwide. In December 2005, Titan Books reprinted ""Colonel Sun"" and included ""River of Death"", another original James Bond comic strip story published before the ""Colonel Sun"" strip in 1969. The kidnap of M was borrowed from ""Colonel Sun"" and used as a plot device in the 1999 Bond film ""The World Is Not Enough"". For the 2002 film ""Die Another Day"", Eon Productions wanted to use the name Colonel Sun Liang-tan for the main villain, but when the Fleming estate insisted on royalties for the use of the name, they changed the"
"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"
"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) and sees the return of Bond girl Pussy Galore, who made"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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)"
"novel by Jeffery Deaver"". On 30 September 2013 ""Solo"" was the chosen work for ""Book at Bedtime"" on BBC Radio 4. The work was read by Paterson Joseph; the book was adapted by Libby Spurrier and was broadcast in ten episodes. Solo (Boyd novel) Solo is a James Bond continuation novel written by William Boyd. It was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 26 September 2013 in hardback, e-book and audio editions, and in the US by HarperCollins on 8 October 2013. The plot centres on Bond's mission to the civil war in the fictional country of Zanzarin—a"
"Sun"". Critic and future novelist Sally Beauman noted that it was ""unusual, not to say unprecedented, for an established author to pick up the torch in this way,"" though she admits that ""Bond [is] too big, and too profitable, a property to be placed in the hands of an unknown."" Fleming's wife, Ann, did not endorse any further Bond works and disliked Amis, saying that he would create ""a ""petit bourgeois"" red brick Bond"". In 1965, Amis 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"
"Devil May Care (Faulks novel) Devil May Care is a James Bond continuation novel written by Sebastian Faulks. It was published in the UK by Penguin Books on 28 May 2008, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ian Fleming, the creator of Bond. The story centres on Bond's investigation into Dr Julius Gorner, a megalomaniac chemist with a deep-seated hatred of England. Faulks wrote the book in the style of Fleming, and the novel carried the credit ""Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming""; he also took the same timeframe as Fleming, setting the novel in 1967, following the events"
"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"
"Reg Gadney Reginald Bernard John Gadney (20 January 1941 – 1 May 2018) was a painter, thriller-writer and an occasional screenwriter or screenplay adaptor. Gadney was also an officer in the Coldstream Guards in the 1960s and later wrote the biopic screenplay """"Goldeneye"""" (about author Ian Fleming) which was filmed in 1989 with Charles Dance playing Ian Fleming. Gadney cameoed as the real-life James Bond, the man who lent his name to Fleming's eponymous spy. Gadney, the son of the rugby player, Bernard Gadney, was born during a secondary air raid on 20 January 1941. His was father was the"
"Solo (Boyd novel) Solo is a James Bond continuation novel written by William Boyd. It was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 26 September 2013 in hardback, e-book and audio editions, and in the US by HarperCollins on 8 October 2013. The plot centres on Bond's mission to the civil war in the fictional country of Zanzarin—a thinly veiled version of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War—where he meets the local MI6 contact, Efua Blessing Ogilvy-Grant, and a Rhodesian mercenary, Kobus Breed. After being shot by Ogilvy-Grant, Bond tracks both people to Washington on a revenge mission, finally"
"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"