![]() ![]() It's also quite a different death scene for a villain here, with Sun calling Bond "James", rather like Le Chiffre in Casino Royale. I think the violence in this Bond novel is certainly more graphic than those by Ian Fleming. There are characters brutally stabbed to death, skewered with wooden skewers, almost burnt alive, raped, and Colonel Sun himself is stabbed by Bond twice in the back and then partially blown up by his own mortar bomb and finally given the coup de grace by a knife slid into his heart by Bond, after he has apologised for the head torture that he had just inflicted upon him and that he was a mad fool to quote Justine by the Marquis de Sade (whose name the word "sadism" is taken from) etc. was it a step too far for a James Bond novel or do you think it fitted in with the works of Ian Fleming? For more in-depth examples - Bond's head torture, M's chest torture, the brutal murder of M's servants the Hammonds and the injured thug of their own, Mr Aris' burns on the ship he managed to escape from. This level of violence - rape/skewering/stabbing/burning/head torture etc. What are your thoughts on the uncharacteristically (graphically) violent nature of Colonel Sun (1968) by Robert Markham, as a James Bond novel?ĭid Kingsley Amis (or Robert Markham) go too far in the CR and LALD direction, do you think? ![]()
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