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Typhoon
Typhoon | Charles Cumming
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Typhoon, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year a Top Ten Thriller of the Year (London Times), further confirms what all the critics around the world have been saying: Charles Cumming is a modern master of the classic espionage thriller, heir to le Carre and Deighton.In 1997, a few months before the British government is scheduled to return Hong Kong to Chinese rule, Joe Lennox, a brilliant young operative for SIS (MI6), loses both his girlfriend and his first high profile asset - a prominent defector who disappears from a safe house. The girlfriend, the ravishing Isabella Aubert, he lost to Miles Coolidge, a hard-bitten CIA agent; the asset to collusion between his bosses and the CIA. A decade later, Lennox is back in China, facing his old nemeses. With the CIA plotting to use an Islamic group to destablize China, the SIS seeking to thwart them and his old asset the key to all of this, Lennox, Coolidge, and the girlfriend they shared are hopelessly intertwined in a plot where trust is impossible and truth is unknowable.
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Interesting remark about our Last Governor.

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Not book related but do you know any Littens from Hong Kong, southern China or the Philippines? High rise buildings in Hong Kong were reportedly shaking! Littens or no Littens, please keep the people in the countries in your thoughts and prayers. 🙏 🌊
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https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2018/09/china-hongkong-brace-typhoon-mangkhut...

bookworm.krizia From the Philippines here, from Manila. Our northern countrymen suffered the most from the typhoon. They need your prayers the most. Thanks! 6y
alisiakae I think @EricaReads is in the path of the typhoon. So much devastation. 😔 6y
Laura317 Praying for those in the path of the typhoon! 6y
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HKGirl My parents are in HK! And friends there too, of course. Thankfully the area my parents live in wasn't hit as badly--they're farther from the coastline. 6y
DivineDiana Oh my! Thank you for informing us. And prayers and love for all in harm‘s way. 6y
EricaReads I haven‘t looked outside yet but I don‘t think we were hit bad here in Haikou. Just lots of rain. It ended up moving a bit north of us. I think Guangdong was hit hard. 6y
minkyb Wow. All the news is about Florence. I had no idea. 6y
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Typhoon | Charles Cumming
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A thriller for grown ups. Set in Hong Kong after the British handover, then moving on to Shanghai, Typhoon tells a compelling tale of espionage & Islamic terrorism in China. Anchored by a young MI6 agent & his American "cousin" as the Brits referred to their CIA counterparts, the story starts off slowly & then takes off. Characters & relationships play second fiddle to plot, but really not by much. For fans of the genre, well worth your time.