Soft cover; Very good; First printing. A trade paperback Advance Reading Copy (ARC). (ISBN 0-671-74301-5) very good tight copy, unread, outer page edges very faintly marked, very good shiny wrappers very faint scuff at top of cover near spine. In front of the main entrance of the London department store, the motorcycle exploded in a blast of blinding white light. In the tradition of Len Deighton, Jack Higgins, and Ken Follett, Stephen Leather's "The Chinaman" delivers jolt after jolt of suspense — a novel of vivid characters, intense action and relentless excitement from the first page to the last. The only surviving members of Nguyen Ngoc Minh's family fell victims to the department store bomb. A North Vietnamese trained in guerrilla warfare, Nguyen had escaped to the south and fought with the U.S. Special Forces until the fall of Saigon. In London, he had found a peaceful new life.but now, his family's slaughter has aroused in the battered, slight survivor the passions of a warrior bent on revenge. The police and the politicians to whom Nguyen turns for help dismiss him as a bothersome "Chinaman." But journalist Ian Wood sees the obdurate Nguyen as the key to his big story — and gives him the name of a suspected terrorist leader. Belfast lawyer Liam Hennessy is one of the most powerful men in a terrorist network out of control; even he does not know who is behind the London bombings. When Nguyen unleashes a harrowing campaign of violence at his Irish countryside farm, Hennessey tries to make a secret deal with the British that may yield the terrorists' identities. As the savage bombings continue in London, Hennessy's wife flees to her lover's arms; a traitor undergoes a brutal interrogation; the rogue terrorists prepare their most gruesome assault; and the Chinaman races toward a violent climax. Packed with authentic detail and extraordinary scenes, "The Chinaman" vaults Stephen Leather to the very top rank of today's suspense novelists. Suspense

The plan is so complex, the target so well protected that the three snipers have to rehearse the killing in the seclusion of the Arizona desert. Cole Howard of the FBI knows he has only days to prevent the audacious assassination. But he doesn't know who the target is. Or where the crack marksmen will strike. Former SAS sergeant Mike Cramer is also on the trail, infiltrating the Irish community in New York as he tracks down Mary Hennessy, the ruthless killer who tore his life apart. Unless Cramer and Howard agree to co-operate, the world will witness the most spectacular terrorist coup of all time . . .

The assassin - the world's most successful contract killer. An anonymous professional with a unique calling card - one bullet in the head and one in the chest for each of his targets. The Judas goat - an ex-member of the SAS, Mike Cramer is the perfect sacrificial bait. When the FBI discover the next name on the assassin's hitlist, Cramer is set up to take his place. The wild card - Cramer's past has caught up with him. Ex-IRA extremist Dermot Lynch blames Cramer for his lover's death and he's out for revenge. As Cramer trains for the most dangerous mission in his career, Lynch hunts down his sworn enemy. And the unknown assassin silently closes in on his target. The players are in position for the final deadly game . . .