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Jade Tiger
Jade Tiger
Jade Tiger
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Jade Tiger

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New York Times–Bestselling Author of Firefox: At the height of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall may finally fall—but who’s really pulling the strings?
 
Sir Kenneth Aubrey remembers Wolfgang Zimmerman from a dramatic encounter back in World War II. In the intervening decades, Zimmerman has risen to become a top advisor to the West German chancellor. Thanks to Zimmerman, the prospect of a reunified Germany is now on the horizon. Until he falls ill during an overseas trade visit and begins to babble deliriously—in Russian. That, as they say, is a definite red flag . . .
 
When Aubrey hears the story from a Chinese spy-turned-defector, he’s unsure whether to believe Zimmerman could be secretly working for the Soviets. To untangle the truth, he and Hyde will have to go all the way to Australia—and face down a team of killers . . .
 
Praise for Craig Thomas’s thrillers
 
“High-octane.” —Daily Express
 
“Will have you sweating bullets. Thomas misses no tricks, and tension is sustained from first page to last.” —The New York Times Book Review
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Release dateFeb 28, 2023
ISBN9781504084017
Jade Tiger
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Craig Thomas

Cardiff-born, internationally bestselling author Craig Thomas (1942–2011) wrote eighteen novels between 1976 and 1998. His first novel, Rat Trap, was published in 1976, swiftly followed by the international bestseller, Firefox. It was after the success of this book that he left his job as an English teacher and became a full-time novelist. Thomas went on to write sixteen further novels, including three featuring the Firefox pilot, Mitchell Gant: Firefox Down, Winter Hawk and A Different War. Firefox attracted the attention of Hollywood and in 1982 was made into a film starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. The novel is credited with inventing the techno-thriller genre.

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    Slow. Almost Le Carre in style but not as well crafted. I think it is at least the second novel to feature the protagonists because they seem to have some prior history that is not explained. The book was published in '82, only seven years before Berlin Wall was demolished and a united Germany entered NATO and the EU without the world coming to an end. It just goes to show how quickly the unimaginable can come to pass. In Germany the latest Prime Minister accompanied by his deputy Wolf Zimmerman, are on an election tour with the manefesto of ratifying the Berlin Treaty to dismantle the wall. Meanwhile in Britsh ruled Hong Kong, a chinese party official is fished from the waters and claims that when Zimmerman recently visited china, he was interogated and found to be a KGB spy. This raises horrible questions - is the entire berlin Treaty a KGB plot to disarm the West. In the remaining 10 days the truth must be found. Kennith AUbry and Patrick Hyde attempt to track down Zimmerman's past while an american infiltrator attempts to determine the truth of Wei's claims.The 'voice' jumps around a lot between the major characters, and disruptively sneaks into the russian and german heads as well, but the biggest downside is that the 'plot' is resolved about halfway through the book, leaving the remaining half as a series of Patrick's escapades to find information the reader already knows. Combined with Audry's remeniscences into the 1940s and some very sterotypical russians and a Zimmermans' bizarre past, it all just doesn't hang together well enough.That said it is quite a readable cold war espionage thriller, aubrey is pretty much the archtypical spymaster, and Hyde the intelligent active hero - it's just that the combination doesn't really work well together. Whilst the russians are somewhat poor, the chinese have been better detailed, and C Thomas' obvious experiences in asia do come through.Nowhere near as good as the technological thriller of Firefox that made him famous, it also doesn't reach the heights of LeCarre's cold war paranoia, and has now dated badly.

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