There’s a civil war brewing within SPECTRE. An upstart American member of the international criminal organization is attempting a coup, threatening to depose Ernst Stavro Blofeld. She’s on guard against Blofeld’s men, so to take her out, Blofeld recruits a wild card – James Bond! With Blofeld threatening the life of Bond’s friend Felix Leiter as leverage, Bond agrees…but he has a plan to use this internal strife to bring SPECTRE down once and for all. Will he succeed, or is this a dark path from which even 007 can’t return?
Collects James Bond: Agent of SPECTRE #1-5.
MEET THE CREATORS
Christos Gage is a New York Times bestselling writer of movies, television, comics, graphic novels, and video games.
Luca Casalanguida is an artist who has worked on titles such as Nathan Never, Nuovo Mondo and Skorpio. Luca has also worked on Disney’s Prince of Persia comic, as well as on Adr1ft #1.
Colonel Sun was the first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming. Penned by one of Britain’s finest writers, Kingsley Amis, this edition celebrates the novel’s 55th anniversary and features a foreword by Anthony Horowitz.
Lunch at Scott’s, a quiet game of golf, a routine social call on his chief M – James Bond’s life has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency, until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped and all of his house staff are savagely murdered. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island, where the malign 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.
Bond’s allies – the beautiful, brown-haired Greek agent, Ariadne Alexandrou; along with a tough-as-nails former World War II resistance fighter – are quickly neutralized by the venomous Colonel Sun. Alone and unarmed, faces off against these two nefarious villains. Stripped of all professional aids, James Bond faces the deadly devices of Colonel Sun and his Nazi cohort in a test that brings him to the verge of his physical abilities.
Essential reading for any fan of 007, the official biography has been reissued to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The paperback edition has a new introduction from John Pearson’s son Mark.
‘It was a strong face, certainly – the eyes pale grey and very cold, the mouth was hard, the dark hair – grey-streaked now – still fell in the authentic comma over the forehead.’
This is how John Pearson reacted to his first encounter with the real James Bond, an encounter probably unique in the annals of thriller writing. He went on to write the bestselling authorised biography of Ian Fleming. At the time, like most of the world he assumed that James Bond was nothing more than a character in Fleming’s highly charged imagination. Then he began to have his doubts. Doubts which were reaching such a pitch that the British secret service were trying to warn him off the scent. Despite this, he finally became convinced that James Bond was not only real, but actually alive.
Thanks to a change in policy within the secret service he was invited to embark upon a companion volume to his life of Fleming. This resulting book must be one of the most extraordinary biographies of our times – the authorised life of a myth, the official biography of James Bond.
Bond is back and he’s better than ever. Moneypenny thinks so, and it’s only a matter of time before Lavender Peacock, a beautiful ward of the Laird of Murcaldy, will heartily agree.
Bond is drinking noticeably less these days; he’s perhaps more diligent about exercise and has a special low-tar tobacco blended for his cigarettes at Morlands of Grosvenor Street. But the 1980s have reached the department as well. Political restraints are squeezing in on the service. The elite Double O unit, with authority to kill, is being abolished.
But M takes little notice of these restrictions when it comes to Bond. He has been assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been meeting with a terrorist known as Franco. Together they plan to hijack six nuclear power plants around the world and start a global meltdown, unless Bond can stop them…
Blofeld is dead. And SPECTRE, the world’s greatest criminal organisation, disbanded. But then a series of murders and hijackings reveal the unimaginable: Blofeld’s Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion is back in business, and more dangerous than ever.
Armed with a pair of Sykes-Fairbairn commando daggers, a new Heckler & Koch VP70 handgun and a new partner in CIA agent Cedar Leiter, the beautiful daughter of his old friend Felix, 007 must halt SPECTRE’s plans to take control of America’s defences. And come face to face with the heir to Blofeld’s evil empire…
Dispatched by M to the frozen North of Finland – near the border with Arctic Russia – Bond must combat an emerging global threat of catastrophic proportions. To do so, 007 is forced to join Icebreaker, a small Black Ops team composed of some of his greatest rivals. But Bond’s comrades-in-arms from the CIA, KGB and Mossad each come with a deadly agenda of their own. And between cross and double-cross, Bond must stay alive long enough to halt the ambitions of a madman with chilling links to a terrible past.
Following scandal and his shock resignation from Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, James Bond becomes a gun for hire, able, and willing, to sell his lethal skills to the highest bidder. And SPECTRE, it seems, are eager to have the disgraced British super spy on their payroll. But before he can be fully embraced by his new employer – and deadliest enemy – 007 must first prove his loyalty. And in doing so he must threaten with nuclear annihilation everything he has fought his whole life to defend. Until honour is fully restored.
Bond was supposed to be on leave. But SPECTRE leader Tamil Rahani, dying from injuries suffered at Bond’s hand, is determined to make it the holiday to die for. With a price on his head, Bond must evade the world’s greatest assassins in a ruthless game of cat-and-mouse across Europe, while trying to save the lives of the women who matter to him the most: his housekeeper May and Miss Moneypenny. But Bond has been a target before. And when it comes to staying alive, nobody does it better than 007…
This lavish edition from The Folio Society with high quality cloth binding and slipcase, artwork by acclaimed illustrator Fay Dalton, and an introduction by Booker-Prize winning author John Banville, pays homage to the enormous success of Ian Fleming’s iconic novels. Few characters have come to define a genre as James Bond has done, and this introduction to his world, with its merciless villains, spectacular dangers, ill-fated romances and exotic settings, is Fleming at his best.
Fay Dalton returns to illustrate the eighth title in Folio’s James Bond collection with seven stirring colour images and a spectacular slipcase design. The smart binding, inspired by Bond’s impeccably tailored suits, completes this irresistible volume, making it a must-have for collectors, Bond fans and all thriller aficionados.
Man-eating sharks, the lifeless stare of the zombie, and, underneath it all, the eerie beat of the voodoo drum… Live and Let Die plunges MI6’s best into a desperate fight for survival against the unearthly Mr Big, and not everyone will leave with their limbs intact.
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