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The Vets

By: Stephen Leather
Narrated by: Paul Thornley
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Hong Kong: The British administration is preparing to hand the capitalist colony back to communist China with the minimum of fuss. But Colonel Joel Tyler has other plans for the British Colony, plans which involve four Vietnam War veterans and a spectacular mission, making use of their unique skills. Vietnam was the one thing the four men had in common before Tyler moulded them into a team capable of pulling off a sensational robbery. But while the vets are preparing to take Hong Kong by storm, their paymaster, Anthony Chung, puts the final touches on an audacious betrayal. At stake is the future of Hong Kong….

©1993 Stephen Leather (P)2012 Isis Publishing Ltd Genre Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military China Fiction Military War
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Stephen Leather is a great story teller and this was a great story with all the elements coming together at the end but it was too long. Too much political detail which became boring at times.
Paul Thorniley is good at all the different accents but he has a strange way of narrating which you have to put up with unfortunately.
Still I would recommend this book.

Good story but too long.

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Terrible story, poorly developed characters and bad narration. To top it off a bit of casual racism and flimsy female characters made this the worst book I've endured for a while.
Avoid at all costs.

Utter trash

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