The Chinaman

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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 when his two eldest daughters had been 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 destroyed by an IRA bomb in a Knightsbridge department store. Then, simply but persistently, 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. Which was when the Chinaman, denied justice, decided on revenge. And went back to war.

Stephen Leather was a journalist for more than ten years on The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. You can find out more from his website: www.stephenleather.com.

'One cannot bear to put it down because one has to know what happens next' -- Glasgow Herald 'As real and hard and tough as today's headlines. I couldn't put it down' -- Jack Higgins 'Will leave you breathless' -- Daily Mail 'Plenty of visceral excitements' -- Guardian 'Leather, a former journalist, can dispense high-adrenaline plotting but never at the expense of remembering that his characters are humans rather than Action Dolls.' -- Sunday Express 'A gripping story sped along by admirable, uncluttered prose' -- Daily Telegraph