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Typhoon

Hong Kong 1997 - only a few short months of British rule remain before the territory returns to Chinese rule. It's a febrile place. So when an elderly man emerges from the seas off the New Territories, claiming to know secrets he will share only with the Governor himself, a young MI6 agent, Joe Lennox, sees an opportunity to make his reputation.

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  • "Just as the British are about to return Hong Kong to Chinese rule, Joe Lennox, a young operative for SIS, loses both his girlfriend and his first high-profile asset--a prominent defector who disappears from a safe house."
  • "Hong Kong 1997 - only a few short months of British rule remain before the territory returns to Chinese rule. It's a febrile place. So when an elderly man emerges from the seas off the New Territories, claiming to know secrets he will share only with the Governor himself, a young MI6 agent, Joe Lennox, sees an opportunity to make his reputation."@en
  • "In the dying days of British rule in Hong Kong, an elderly man emerges from the sea demanding to see the Governor. He has, he says, information which threatens not just the territory's future, but that of China's stability itself. Information which, it soon becomes apparent, the CIA and MI6 will stop at nothing to control."
  • ""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"--Publisher description."@en
  • "1997, Hong Kong. Dans ce territoire bientôt rendu à la Chine par la Grande-Bretagne, la lutte entre les services secrets anglais et américains fait rage. Un universitaire chinois propose de divulguer des informations importantes sur un membre du gouvernement de Pékin, et l'agent Joe Lennox du MI6 voit là un moyen de promotion. Mais l'homme est kidnappé, et Joe s'aperçoit qu'il a été doublé...--[Memento]."
  • "Hong Kong 1997. Only a few short months of British sovereignty left before the territory returns to Chinese rule. It's a feverish city. And the spooks are hard at work, jostling for position and influence. So when an elderly man emerges from the sea, claiming to know secrets he will share only with the Governor, a young MI6 agent, Joe Lennox, sees the chance to make his reputation. But when the old man, a high-profile Chinese professor, is spirited away in the middle of the night by Joe's superiors and the CIA, it's clear that there's a great deal more at stake than a young spy's career. The professor holds the key to a sinister and ambitious plan that could have catastrophic repercussions for the world in the next century..."@en
  • "Hong Kong 1997 - only a few short months of British rule remain before the territory returns to Chinese rule. It's a febrile place. And in that claustrophobic environment of uncertainty and fear the spooks are hard at work, jostling for position and influence."@en
  • "Hong Kong 1997 - only a few short months of British rule remain before the territory returns to China. And in that claustrophobic environment of uncertainty and fear, the spooks are hard at work, jostling for position and influence. So when an elderly man emerges from the seas off the New Territories, claiming to know secrets he will share only with the Governor himself, Joe Lennox, a young MI6 agent, sees an opportunity to make his reputation. But when the old man, a high-profile Chinese professor, is spirited away in the middle of the night by Joe's superiors in collusion with the CIA, it's clear that there's a great deal more than a young spy's career at stake."
  • "Discovering a scientist who claims to have information about an elaborate terrorist attack, [MI6 agent] Lennox brings him in. But when the man is spirited away by Lennox's superiors and the CIA, it becomes clear that this man's secrets detail a plot much larger and darker than anyone can imagine."

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  • "Spy stories"
  • "Spy stories"@en
  • "Suspense"
  • "Detective and mystery fiction"@en
  • "Espionage & spy thriller"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Špionážní romány"
  • "Spy novels"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Espionage"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "English fiction"
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Tyfon"@da
  • "Traîtrises"
  • "Typhoon"
  • "Typhoon"@en
  • "Tajfun"@pl
  • "Tajfun"

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