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Typhoon, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year a Top Ten Thriller of the Year (London Times), further confirms what all the critics around the world have been saying: Charles Cumming is a modern master of the classic espionage thriller, heir to le Carre and Deighton.
In 1997, a few months before the British government is scheduled to return Hong Kong to Chinese rule, Joe Lennox, a brilliant young operative for SIS (MI6), loses both his girlfriend and his first high profile asset – a prominent defector who disappears from a safe house. The girlfriend, the ravishing Isabella Aubert, he lost to Miles Coolidge, a hard-bitten CIA agent; the asset to collusion between his bosses and the CIA.
A decade later, Lennox is back in China, facing his old nemeses. With the CIA plotting to use an Islamic group to destablize China, the SIS seeking to thwart them and his old asset the key to all of this, Lennox, Coolidge, and the girlfriend they shared are hopelessly intertwined in a plot where trust is impossible and truth is unknowable.
- Sales Rank: #615405 in Books
- Published on: 2011-03-01
- Released on: 2011-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.15" h x 1.16" w x 5.52" l, .79 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
- ISBN13: 9780312654207
- Condition: New
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In the tradition of old-school espionage fiction, Cumming (The Spanish Game) lets character rather than plot carry this compelling thriller. William Lasker, a second-string agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service, takes on the job of writing a book about a rogue CIA plot against the People's Republic of China. The action, which takes place mainly in Hong Kong and Shanghai, focuses on Joe Lennox, an SIS undercover agent in China, and an older CIA veteran, Miles Coolidge. Several months before the turnover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997, a defector, Professor Wang Kaixuan, climbs out of the South China Sea and announces he has important secret information. After the professor disappears, Joe slowly learns the defector has become part of Typhoon, a secret CIA plan being run by Miles whose aim is to destabilize China. The conflict between Joe and Miles, both personal and professional, fuels this complex and satisfying novel. (Nov.)
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“Typhoon is easy to like. The plot is tight and complex, and the local details are accurate about the three main cities where it is set: Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing.” ―James Fallows, The New York Times Book Review
“In the tradition of old-school espionage fiction, Cumming lets character rather than plot carry this compelling thriller. William Lasker, a second-string agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service, takes on the job of writing a book about a rogue CIA plot against the People's Republic of China. The action, which takes place mainly in Hong Kong and Shanghai, focuses on Joe Lennox, an SIS undercover agent in China, and an older CIA veteran, Miles Coolidge. Several months before the turnover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997, a defector, Professor Wang Kaixuan, climbs out of the South China Sea and announces he has important secret information. After the professor disappears, Joe slowly learns the defector has become part of Typhoon, a secret CIA plan being run by Miles whose aim is to destabilize China. The conflict between Joe and Miles, both personal and professional, fuels this complex and satisfying novel.” ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About the Author
CHARLES CUMMING is the author of the international bestselling thrillers A Spy by Nature and The Spanish Game, as well as The Trinity Six. He is a contributing editor of The Week and currently lives in London.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
The Great Game, continued
By M. S. Butch
Charles Cumming's spies are engaged in an endless game of lying. All of them lie to everyone all the time, while they attempt to discern the lies in each other's statements.
Typhoon occurs in two sections, eight years apart. In the first section Joe Lennox, a junior MI6 agent living in Hong Kong just before the handover of that city to China, tries to figure out why a Chinese defector whom he was the first to interview subsequently disappeared. Although his superiors in MI6 and colleagues in the CIA tell him that the defector was a plant, and was sent back to China, Joe believes they are all lying to him.
The second section of the story picks up 8 years later, when Joe is sent by MI6 to Shanghai to spy on his old CIA frenemy, Miles Coolidge. Joe is pleased to do this because, among other things, Miles stole the Love of His (Joe's) Life, aided by some sneaky tricks.
As compared with his earlier novels, Cumming is here working with a larger canvas and at a greater distance from his characters. His focus is politics within China and between China and the West, with emphasis on the dark side of the Chinese economic miracle and the utter pointlessness of the spy game.
The story is narrated, not by Joe Lennox, but by a journalist who works part time for MI6. I think this distance dulled my concern for the characters, especially compared with Alex Milius, the hero of two other Cumming novels. While Joe is a "better" person than Alex, I didn't get close enough to Joe to develop for him the affection I have for Alex. And let's face it -- there's something "off" about a guy who still isn't over a former girlfriend after eight years.
As for the girlfriend, Isabella, being myself a woman who grew up after the '50s, I find her aimlessness annoying rather than endearing. She seems to have no interior life, no interests, and no goals. Really, I thought Joe was well rid of her.
In sum, I always look forward to the next Charles Cumming novel, but I hope it is about Alex.
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
An interesting premise that falls flat
By J. Mullally
This is an average read that starts out reasonably well, but never really picks up any steam or suspense. The narrative device of Will the journalist writing a book about an incident over a decade in the making tends to make it lumber and be rife with the benefit of hindsight, thus ruining the suspense. In addition, the focus on the love triangle between the two agents and Isabelle gets pretty tedious after a while. The whole Muslim extremists and defector from China angle is too watered down, and the issue of the Hong Kong Handover could have been interesting but was watered down by endless disputes over whether or not Margaret Thatcher, Chris Patten and the Tories were good people. I think history has already answered that one. The worst thing about the book is the ending, where he tries to wrap things up. Again, because of the narrative device of Will the journalist writing the book, we get things from his perspective, and a whole lot of reported speech instead of dialogue, which breaks the cardinal rule of storytelling: "Show, don't tell."
The way he captures life in Hong Kong is well done, but for me, not exactly the best book in the suspense/thriller/espionage genre that I've ever read.
18 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
stunning and enjoyable
By J. Johnson
One of the benefits of the end of a world political system with only two major players (US/Soviet Union) is that the multitude of twisted regimes and complex relationships gives a host of new targets for writers of political thrillers to choose from. Charles Cumming's book Typhoon begins in Hong Kong at the time of the turnover to the Chinese and posits a covert operation to destablize China.
Joe Lennox is a bright young star of British Intelligence. He has the opportunity to interview a defector who is promptly snatched from him by Ameican CIA operative Miles Coolidge. Whle he's stealing the defector Coolidge also steals Lennox's girlfriend.
Flash forward 10 years. The Olympics are coming to town. The operation to destabilize China (Typhoon) has been shut down. Or has it? Lennox returns to China and ...
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The characters are well written, the action well done, the plot (post Bush) is plausable. It's well executed, put you on the edge of your seat and don't put down the book good. Highly recommend
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