The Chinaman
The Chinaman
ISBN: 9780671743017
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内容简介
THE MOTORCYCLE WAS PARKED IN FRONT OF
THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE LONDON
DEPARTMENT STORE, ITS HAZARD WARNING
LIGHTS FLASHING AMBER REFLECTIONS ON
THE WET ROAD. THE TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS
OF SEMTEX IN ITS CARRIER BOX EXPLODED IN
A BLAST OF BLINDING WHITE LIGHI....
In the tradition of Len Deighton, Jack Higgins, and Ken
Follett, Stephen Leather s THE CHINAMAN delivers
jolt after jolt of suspense a novel of vivid characters,
intense action and relentless excitement from first page
to last.
Among the many victims of the department store bomb
were a lovely young girl and her mother, the last surviv-
ing members of the family of Nguyen Ngoc Minh. A
North Vietnamese trained in guerrilla warfare, Nguyen
had escaped to the south and fought with the U.S.
Special Forces until the fall of Saigon. Abandoned by the
Americans, he made his way to London and a peaceful
new life as owner of a Chinese takeout restaurant. But
now, his family s slaughter has aroused in the battered,
slight survivor the passions of a warrior bent on
revenge.
Terrorists and bombings are an 0id story to the police
and the politicians; Nguyen is just a bothersome
"Chinaman" demanding justice from a system he does