Hong Kong. The British administration is preparing to hand the capitalist colony back to Communist China with the minimum of fuss.
Colonel Joel Tyler, however, has other plans for the British colony - plans that involve four Vietnam War veterans and a spectacular mission making use of their unique skills.
But while the vets are preparing to take the country by storm, their paymaster, Anthony Chung, puts the final touches to an audacious betrayal. The future of Hong Kong is at stake . . .
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PRAISE FOR STEPHEN LEATHER
'A master of the thriller genre'
Irish Times
'A writer at the top of his game'
Sunday Express
'In the top rank of thriller writers'
Jack Higgins
Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country's most successful ebook authors and his titles have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages and he has also written for television. You can learn more from Stephen's website, www.stephenleather.com, and find him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stephenleatherofficial/. Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, www.danspidershepherd.com, and for his Jack Nightingale series, www.jacknightingale.com.
Title: The Vets (Stephen Leather Thrillers)
Author: Stephen Leather
ISBN: 9780340597705
Binding:
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication Date: 1994-02-03
Number of Pages: 576
Weight: 0.2995 kg
'Action and scalpel-sharp suspense ... the book has all the ingredients for a successful blockbuster' -- Daily Telegraph 'Exciting stuff with plenty of heart-palpitating action gingered up by mystery and intrigue ... Leather is an intelligent thriller writer' -- Daily Mail on THE TUNNEL RATS