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===Themes=== Benson observes an increased level of political intrigue in ''Colonel Sun'' compared to the earlier Bond novels. Bond acts in concert with the Russians against the Chinese, which Benson sees as demonstrating the theme of peacekeeping between nations.{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=147}} Black considers the novel reflects the realities of the late-1960s as China had developed hydrogen bomb capability in 1967 and the [[Sino-Soviet split]] that took place across the 1960s culminated in 1969 with the [[Sino-Soviet border conflict]]. Reflecting this, the novel shows a shift in the balance of world power away from two-party Cold War politics.{{sfn|Black|2005|pp=182β183}} Black observes 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. In England Amis describes "the ugly rash of modern housing β half-heartedly mock-Tudor villas, bungalows and two-storey boxes with a senseless variegation of planking, brick and crazy paving on the front of each and the inevitable TV aerial sprouting from every roof";{{sfn|Markham|1968|p=18}} in Greece he writes:{{sfn|Black|2005|pp=183β184}} <blockquote>In thirty years, he reflected, perhaps sooner, there would be one vast undifferentiated culture, one complex of super-highways, hot-dog stands and neon, interrupted only by the Atlantic, stretching from Los Angeles to Jerusalem; possibly, by then, as far as Calcutta, three-quarters of the way round the world. Where there had been Americans and British and French and Italians and Greeks and the rest, there would be only citizens of the West, uniformly affluent, uniformly ridden by guilt and neurosis, uniformly alcoholic and suicidal, uniformly everything.{{sfn|Markham|1968|p=72}}</blockquote> This treatment by Amis is similar to Fleming's nostalgia in describing Paris in "[[For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)#From a View to a Kill|From a View to a Kill]]".{{sfn|Black|2005|p=183}} Benson identifies Bond's desire for revenge as a central theme of the novel. The plot centres on Bond's need to avenge the death of the Hammonds and M's kidnapping. Benson describes this as particularly striking: "Bond is particularly brutal in achieving his goal ... The revenge is very satisfying. This is Bond at his toughest."{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=147}}
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