Typhoon - Hardcover

Cumming, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031255852X ISBN 13: 9780312558529

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

Sharp . . . complex . . . vivid.

Book Description:

The comparison is a heavy one for a young author, but Typhoon, with its deep plotting, flawed characters, climactic conclusion and undercurrent of mistrust is another step in the footprints of the master, John le Carre.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 031255852X
• ISBN 13: 9780312558529
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 397