The Vets (Stephen Leather Thrillers)
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Would you like to tell us about a lower price? Hong Kong is going back to the Chinese, but not before one man tries to pull off the most daring robbery of them all. Using the hard-bitten skills of four Vietnam veterans, Colonel Joel Tyler is about to rake in the millions, and throw the international community into chaos at one of the most crucial moments of world history. Read more Read less.
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It's a couple of years before Hong Kong is to revert to Red China.
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Chinese expatriate Anthony Chung meets in Paris with ex-U. To that end, Tyler implements an elaborate scheme to recruit other U. Army vets of the Vietnam war for the venture.
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Then there's ex-Air America, i. This time their mission will take them not into the jungle but into the teeming heart of Asia's financial capital - Hong Kong. Their aim, to pull off a robbery of stunning ingenuity and extraordinary daring. It was a huge book - almost , words when I finally finished, and I ended up throwing away almost a third.
It's still my biggest book by far. I guess it was because it was the first book I wrote full-time, my earlier books had always been written while I had other jobs. The fact that I was doing it full-time also meant that I could spend more time doing research, including traveling to Vietnam. While in Vietnam doing research for The Vets I got the idea for The Tunnel Rats, but it was several years before I got down to actually writing the book. The plot of The Vets is really complex, and I'm very proud of it.
It's full of well-drawn characters and I think I really capture the atmosphere in Hong Kong prior to its handover to China. I think the title could have been better but my editor Bill Massey and I wracked our brains for months and couldn't come up with anything else. Parents are being kept in the dark and Shepherd fears that the children are being exploited. As an undercover specialist, Shepherd is tasked with protecting a year-old schoolboy who is being used to gather evidence against violent drug dealers and a right-wing terrorist group. But when the boy's life is threatened, Shepherd has no choice but to step in and take the heat.
And while Shepherd's problems mount up at work, he has even greater problems closer to home. For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt colour-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in the hope that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place?
I'm not generally willing to plow through almost pages unless the book is really really special. But while the vets are preparing to take the country by storm, their paymaster, Anthony Chung, puts the final touches to an audacious betrayal. A bit different from the usual Leather novel. Acts of Love Talulah Riley. Aug 29, Jim Moffett rated it it was amazing. However as I have read 29 of his stories some of them twice because they were memorable and fast moving I will continue to be a fan however for me this was as I said disappointing.
Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind at the edge of his sword, he must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury. But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance. Beset by political and criminal enemies, can she outwit her opponents in time to save him? Once a Red refugee, young Lyria now stands accused of treason, and her only hope is a desperate escape with unlikely new allies.
Abducted by a new threat to the Republic, Pax and Electra must trust in a thief for their salvation - and Ephraim must look to them for his chance at redemption. As alliances shift, break, and re-form - and power is seized, lost, and reclaimed - every player is at risk in a game of conquest that could turn the Rising into a new Dark Age.
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On the road, she is the victim of a brutal accident that kills the engineer but leaves Tara in a vegetative state - or, at least, so her doctors think. Really, Tara is the prisoner of locked-in syndrome, fully alert, but unable to move a muscle. Trapped in her body, she discovers that someone powerful wants her dead. And what can she do, lying in a hospital bed, to stop them? Meanwhile, Abby Kaplan, an insurance investigator, is assigned to Tara's case.
A former stunt driver, Abby has returned to Maine after a disaster in Hollywood left a beloved actor dead and her own reputation - and nerves - shattered. She has nothing left to give to the case, but she can tell there's more to the accident than meets the eye. When Abby starts asking questions, things spin out of control fast, leaving her boss murdered, Abby on the run, and an enigmatic young hit man on her heels.
If She Wakes is a tension-filled thriller from one of the masters of the genre. Emperor Domitian has been awarded or rather, has demanded yet another Triumph to celebrate two so-called victories. Preparations are going smoothly until one of the men overseeing arrangements for the celebration accidentally falls to his death from a cliff on the symbolic Capitoline Hill. But Flavia Albia suspects there's more to the incident than meets the eye, as there are plenty of people who would have been delighted to be rid of the overseer.
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He was an abusive swine who couldn't organise a booze-up in a winery and was caught up in a number of scams, including one surrounding the supply of imperial purple dye and a family of shellfish-boilers. As Flavia finds herself drawn into a theatrical world of carnival floats, musicians, incense and sacrificial beasts, can she see to the heart of the matter and catch those responsible for the unpopular man's untimely death? Davis's squalid, vibrant Rome is as pleasurable as ever' - Guardian'Davis's prose is a lively joy, and Flavia's Rome is sinister and gloriously real' - The Times on Sunday'For fans of crime fiction set in the ancient world, this one is not to be missed' - Booklist'Davis's books crackle with wit and knowledge.
She has the happy knack of making the reader feel entirely immersed in Rome' - The Times.
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