Typhoon

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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. A waterfall cut through the mountains in the distance, feeding a narrow stream that meandered to join the Yuanjiang. Sooty not only tells it exactly how it is, but does it in a way that would make sense to someone who does not have knowledge of technical aviation terms, nor does it patronise someone who does. Similarly, Somerset Maugham's Mrs Craddock has a lengthy auction record, but no copy recorded in jacket. Hengyen was a grizzled military officer of some renown, and a passionate believer in his nation’s ability to surmount any obstacle.

Original, slate-gray cloth with title, author, publisher, and life-preserver stamped in gilt; 32 pages of ads at end (as in some copies, but not all). At the end of chapter V the story reaches a climactic point, the ship barely makes it into the eye of the typhoon and faces a final challenge to exit the storm through the eye wall. Publisher's windmill device on title page, without "Reserved for the Colonies only" on verso of title page, and with publisher's monogram on rear cover.

She gave him the middle f Chen Wenzhu leaned over the edge of the roof and studied the pair impatiently as they passed underneath his perch.

With the windmill device on title page; bound in dark gray cloth pictorially stamped in gilt depicting a lifesaver; spine lettering gilt; internally clean and bright with two small spots of bubbling to cloth. An adrenaline-fuelled, gripping account that puts you right in the cockpit of one of the RAF's most modern combat aircraft. NB: both interior hinges are cracked and there is a tiny tear to the crown of the spine] First edition, first printing of the English edition.

Typhoon', Charles Cumming's 4th spy novel, is yet another winner for my candidate for Current World's Greatest Spy Novelist. It genuinely felt as if you were there in the cockpit with Sooty when he was in action in Iraq fighting ISIS. As the present example shows, the fully typographic style persisted into the early years of the 20th. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Lennox is eager to do go against Miles b/c Miles is married to Isabella, who lives with him in China.

This is a truly excellent book and well worth the praise heaped on it by others and Charles Cumming may well be, as the Observer has said, taking up the Le Carre mantle. The tale describes the exploits of Captain MacWhirr as he sails the s/s Nan-Shan, a British-built steamer running under the Siamese flag, into a typhoon in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean.Anyone expecting a book about a severe weather event will be disappointed; but readers familiar with the author’s style of British "spook" thrillers will enjoy this one, timely given the current unrest in Hong Kong. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal.