This story is based on events that occurred just prior to the
expiry of the 99 year lease on Hong Kong in June 1997. Seven
international financiers attend meeting in Singapore. The subject
on the agenda is a conspiracy to gain overall control of Hong Kong
leading to a coup to overthrow the Communist Government of the
Peoples Republic of China. When an armoured security van hold up in
England coincides with the murder of a prominent financier in Hong
Kong, the Hi-jack of a Container Ship in the Mediterranean by
Terrorists, who have nuclear missiles aboard, and the theft of
several billions in English Pounds, American Dollars and French
Francs, The MI6, CIA, have to catch an ex-KGB official and an
activated sleeper agent to find out. The main characters, an MI6
agent Lee Chantry and a CIA agent, Andy Carter, are in a race
against time when they uncover detailed information exposing a
multi billion pound bank fraud that leads them halfway round the
World to prevent the conspiracy being used to undermine the Chinese
Government and re-instate the old Communist USSR with an old style
Russian hardliner as Head of State Leaving an undercover member of
the Royal Marine Special Boat Service to defeat the ship's
hi-jackers, the two agents travel halfway round the World and
enlist the help of a Family of Hong Kong Chinese Triads to follow
the Russian Agents deep inside China. Can a Royal Marine Special
Boat Service section, an M16 agent and a CIA agent work together to
thwart the Conspiracy and prevent the conspirators plunging the
World into a Nuclear War?
General
Imprint: |
Authorhouse
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2007 |
First published: |
February 2007 |
Authors: |
Joseph Kelly
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
380 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4259-7409-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Adventure / thriller >
General
|
LSN: |
1-4259-7409-0 |
Barcode: |
9781425974091 |
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