Book description
Hong Kong 1997 - only a few short months of British rule remain before
the territory returns to Chinese rule. It's a febrile place. And in that
claustrophobic environment of uncertainty and fear the spooks are hard
at work, jostling for position and influence. So when an elderly man
emerges from the seas off the New Territories, claiming to know secrets
he will share only with the Governor himself, a young MI6 agent, Joe
Lennox, sees an opportunity to make his reputation. 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. The
professor, it seems, holds the key to a sinister and ambitious plan that
could have awesome and catastrophic repercussions for China in the
twenty-first century . . . Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in
1971. Author of the bestselling thrillers A Spy by Nature, The Hidden
Man and The Spanish Game. Typhoon is his fourth novel. He lives in
London.
