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Typhoon

A Novel

By Cumming, Charles

Publishers Summary:
Charles Cumming, lauded internationally as the successor to John le Carré, returns with his biggest, most ambitious thriller to date. Beginning in 1997, just as the British are about to re - turn Hong Kong to Chinese rule, Joe Lennox, a young opera tive for SIS (MI6), loses both his girlfriend and his first high profile asset—a prominent defector who disappears from a safe house. The girlfriend he lost to Miles Coolidge, a hard-bitten CIA agent; the asset to collusion between his bosses and the CIA. Over ten years later, during the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, Lennox is back in China, facing his old nemeses. With the CIA plotting to use an Islamic group to destabilize China, the SIS seeking to thwart them and his old asset the key to all of this, Joe Lennox, Miles Coolidge, and the girlfriend they shared are all hopelessly intertwined in a plot where trust is impossible and truth is unknowable.

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ISBN
978-0-31255-852-9
Publisher
St. Martin's Press


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Library Journal

Reviewed on December 10, 2009

China's ethnic Uighurs, in the news now for their urgent push for autonomy, are the focus of this intricately plotted and masterfully rendered espionage thriller. At its most gut-wrenching, it is a tale of two agents, one British, one American, who lock horns in a deadly struggle over a woman and their honor. But Cumming's smart and sharp story line also revolves around a pair of extralegal plots in China to nail down big energy contracts for American interests while destabilizing the central power. Verdict In his third novel (after A Spy by Nature and The Spanish Game), Cumming uses the British handover of Hong Kong in 1997 and the 2008 Beijing Olympics as the framework for a compelling story in which greed, hate, and terrorism swirl in a maelstrom. A sure bet for thriller fans. [Library marketing.]-Barbara Conaty, Falls Church, VA Copyright 2009 Media Source Inc. Copyright 2009 Media Source Inc. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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