Slipping into Shadow (Windsor Selections S.) - Hardcover

Thomas, Craig

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075401293X ISBN 13: 9780754012931

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 1999

Synopsis

The vast holiday resort of Tripitaka, carved from the jungle of northern Burma, is close to completion. It is to be the jewel in the crown of Straits Royal Group, a hotel chain whose recent growth and massive capital have surprised the financial world. Patrick Hyde suspects the chain's casinos are being used to launder drug money. The West is being flooded by ever increasing amounts of Burmese heroin. Could Straits Royal also be one big distribution network for the drug? His suspicions make him a target - but for whom? Meanwhile Marian Pyott MP has just rekindled a passionate affair but when Hyde convinces her that a young man in her constituency was murdered they become desperate to unearth the evidence that will keep them alive. For Hyde and Marian, Burma becomes the most unpleasant place on earth....

The master thriller writer has created an unforgettable adventure and a passionate love story encompassing international politics, global finance and drug dollars; forces that create a whirlpool threatening to destroy Hyde and those around him....

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Review

Marian Pyott is just trying to be a good constituency MP when the fiancée of a constituent is found OD'd and the police announce he was probably a heroin dealer; Patrick Hyde is an investigator, tracing money and drugs in the most patient of manners.

It was really he himself who had got Henderson knifed to death. He'd become greedy for what he imagined Henderson could lead him to--new faces like that of the white man, connections with the hotel chain whose casinos must be laundering operations for the heroin profits ... Hyde shook his head.

Both find themselves up against an international conspiracy, betrayed by those whose idea of realistic politics involves giving a free hand to evil, whether to hired assassins like Jessop, crooked businessmen like David Winterborne (the childhood friend Marian came up against in A Different War) or the military regimes of Burma and China. Thomas is writing Buchan for the 90s and is genuinely exciting whether his characters are running for their lives through derelict London housing estates, the jungles of South East Asia or the slums of Rangoon or whether those chasing them are flying helicopter gun ships or just planting car bombs.

.Slipping into Shadow is an intelligent thriller because it is fascinated with how things work; its hairbreadth escapes and smart stratagems convince even the most blasé of readers. --Roz Kaveney

Book Description

* A highly charged thriller set in Burma. Fast-paced and action-packed

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075401293X
• ISBN 13: 9780754012931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 695