Quiller Bamboo, Adam Hall
Quiller Bamboo, Adam Hall
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Quiller Bamboo

Author: Adam Hall

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 9 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/17/2008

Synopsis

Summoned late at night to the Bureau, Quiller attends a secret conference with the foreign secretary and a surprise defector: the Chinese ambassador to Britain. Minutes later, shots ring out and the ambassador's body is flung out onto the sidewalk of a deserted London street, riddled with bullets. Searching for clues, Quiller flies to Calcutta to meet Sojourner, a key ally in the plan to bring democracy to China. But Sojourner is killed-thus, two men, both dedicated to bringing freedom to their country, are dead. No wonder Quiller is skeptical about his next mission: to smuggle a Chinese dissident into Tibet. "A model of breathless excitement."-New Yorker

About Adam Hall

Adam Hall (1920–1995) was the pseudonym of British writer Elleston Trevor. He was the creator of the supremely successful Quiller novels. Born in London, he and his family lived on the French Riviera for many years before moving to Arizona. Hall was awarded the Edgar® Award for The Quiller Memorandum.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Philip

Written shortly after the Tienanmen Square massacre, this is an oddly bittersweet story, in that it revolves around a mission to replace the recently-vilified Beijing government with a truly democratic alternative. And then, 3/4s of the way through the book, a third alternative pops up in the form o......more

Goodreads review by Karl

Hall is the master of the spy thriller. Somehow, he manages to make every chapter a cliff hanger without resorting to the contrived emergencies of a pot-boiler (such as Clive Cussler). If you want non-stop thrills and tension, Quiller is the man who can deliver.......more

Goodreads review by Larry

Quiller's mission is the central piece in an attempt to overthrow the Chinese government amid the fallout from the Tianamen Square massacre. Most of the book takes place in Lhasa, Tibet, and Quiller is in the red zone throughout the book as he attempts to safeguard and deliver the most important mem......more

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