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The Chinaman

By: Stephen Leather
Narrated by: Russell Boulter
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The "Chinaman" understood death.

Jungle-skilled, silent, and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. He had watched helpless as his two eldest daughters were raped and killed by Thai pirates. Now, all that was behind him. Quiet, hard-working, and unassuming, he was building up his South London take-away business - until the day his wife and youngest daughter were murdered by an IRA bomb. Then he began to ask the authorities who were the men responsible, what was being done - and was turned away, fobbed off, treated as a nuisance. That was when the Chinaman, denied justice, decided on revenge...and went back to war.

©1992 Stephen Leather (P)2007 Isis Publishing Ltd.
Action & Adventure Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Suspense Thriller & Suspense

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" The Chinaman is a gem of a thriller, perfectly constructed and full of the unexpected." ( Library Journal)
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