History Literature / ColonelSun

* UncannyValley: In-universe, Sun's way of speaking English is described to be this, as he doesn't have a natural connection to the language which leads him to use various English dialects randomly.

* FailedFutureForecast: A DownplayedTrope example and also a FunnyAneurysm moment. The book has a running theme about how the Red Chinese are a [[YellowPeril bigger danger to the West]] than the Soviet Union and how eventually both the USSR as well as the West will probably team up against in the future. Cue 1972 with Richard Nixon visiting China...

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: A DownplayedTrope example and also a FunnyAneurysm moment. The book has a running theme about how the Red Chinese are a [[YellowPeril bigger danger to the West]] than the Soviet Union and how eventually both the USSR as well as the West will probably team up against in the future. Cue 1972 with Richard Nixon visiting China...

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: A DownplayedTrope example and also a FunnyAneurysm moment. The book has a running theme about how the Red Chinese are a bigger danger to the West than the Soviet Union and how eventually both the USSR as well as the West will probably team up against in the future. Cue 1972 with Richard Nixon visiting China...

The book was long out-of-print, at least physically, however recently it's seen a bit of revival, with an E-Book Edition published, an audio-book adaptation solicited, and being brought back into print through Penguin's Vintage Classics imprint, in an edition matching Fleming's novels and under Amis' own name, not the pseudonym.

* InterserviceRivalry: One of the many reasons that Alexandra isn't believed when she tries to warn about the imminent attack on the Soviet meeting is that she's reporting to a KGB representative, who doesn't take her seriously as she's a {{GRU}} agent.

* DirtyCommunists: Colonel Sun himself is a part of the [[RedChina Chinese]] branch of this trope. An interesting subversion occurs in the fact that Bond allies with the {{GRU}} agent Ariadne to stop him.

The book was long out-of-print, at least physically, however recently it's seen a bit of revival, with an E-Book Edition published, an audio-book adaptation solicited, and being brought back into print through Penguin's Vintage Classics imprint, in an edition matching Fleming's novels.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Sir Rideout implies that Bond was cowardly for 'fleeing' M's kidnappers, then quickly switches to praising him after it occurs to Rideout that there might be political fallout. At the end of the novel he complains that Bond didn't kill a witness, then despises him for being a ProfessionalKiller.

* ComicBookAdaptation: As with other ''Bond'' books, ''Colonel Sun'' was made into a comic strip. One notable difference is that it made Sun a member of SPECTRE.

The book is unfortunately out-of-print, at least physically, however recently an E-Book Edition was published and an audio-book adaptation has been solicited.

* VillainousBreakdown: Colonel Sun has an unconventional one when Bond escapes. He says that he expected torturing Bond to make him feel like a god but it actually just made him feel sick and horrified at him. James Bond, antihero that he is, isn't inclined to show any mercy to the Colonel.

* ScaryShinyGlasses: Used on the second cover of the book, seen above.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: Sir Rideout implies that Bond was cowardly for 'fleeing' M's kidnappers, then quickly switches to praising him after it occurs to Rideout that there might be political fallout. At the end of the novel he complains that Bond didn't kill a witness, then switches to despising him for being a ProfessionalKiller.

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: A DownplayedTrope example and also a FunnyAneurysm moment. The book has a running theme about how the Red Chinese are a bigger danger to the West than the Soviet Union and how eventually both the uSSR as well as the West will probably team up against in the future. Cue 1972 with Richard Nixon visiting China...

* InterserviceRivalry: One of the many reasons that Alexandra isn't believed when shes tries to warn about the imminent attack on the Soviet meeting is that she's reporting to a KGB representative, who doesn't take her seriously as she's a {{GRU}} agent.

A ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel from 1968, and the first one to be not from Creator/IanFleming. It was written by Kingsley Amis, under the [[PenName pseudonym]] Robert Markham.

* WriterOnBoard: Kingsley Amis was significantly softer on Soviet communism than Ian Fleming, to say the least. Becomes HilariousInHindsight he predicted a thawing of Soviet and Western relations while an escalation of Chinese-Western tensions. Cue Nixon's visit to China...