New Bond Feels Slight Remorse

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31381, 29 May 1967, Page 9

New Bond Feels Slight Remorse

(N.Z. P.A. -Reuter—-Copyright) LONDON, May 28. The new James Bond will know more about Greek than French food, use the correct vermouth in a vodka martini and even feel a sense of remorse about killing.

So says the British novelist Kingsley Amis, who is recreating “007” in a book entitled “Colonel Sun,” due to be published next year. The publishers, who own the copyright of lan Fleming’s books, asked Mr Amis, an ardent fan of James Bond, to resurrect the secret agent But Bond’s new literary patron is no expert on Bentley

cars, gambling, special gadgets or underwater swimming. Bond's character will change accordingly. The novel opens with Bond coolly holing a long putt on the last green of the plush Sunningdale golf course near London. The action then moves to a fictional Greek island. “It involves a lot of skullduggery,” Mr Amis said. The former Cambridge lecturer in English is well equipped to write a Bond book; last year he wrote a critique on Bond, called “The James Bond Dossier.’ Bond is still the same smooth professional, but now and then he suffers a twinge of conscience. "In one scene he has just stabbed one person and blown up another when he experiences a ‘sickening surge of remorse,’ ” Mr Amis said. “But of course, he soon realises it’s all part of his job."