The Chinaman, Stephen Leather
The Chinaman, Stephen Leather
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The Chinaman

Author: Stephen Leather

Narrator: Russell Boulter

Unabridged: 10 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2007

Synopsis

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 murdered by an IRA bomb. Then 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.

About Stephen Leather

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country's most successful ebook authors and his titles have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages and he has also written for television.You can learn more from Stephen's website, www.stephenleather.com, and find him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stephenleatherofficial/.Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, www.danspidershepherd.com, and for his Jack Nightingale series, www.jacknightingale.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike on September 07, 2023

Third of my Stephen Leather books finished. The last two had kicked Salman Rushdie into touch for a while. As Two Envelopes and a Phone mentioned on my last review this book was the story for the film ‘The Foreigner’ with Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan. A cracker of a film that I will now rewatch. Th......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 02, 2018

Goodreads has this book listed as The Chinaman (Mike Cramer #1). I just finished the book, literally less than an hour ago and I have no idea who the hell Mike Cramer is. This is my first book by Mr. Leather, probably not my last. I saw the movie that was based on this book and while they generally f......more

Goodreads review by Rob on December 20, 2015

I read this book on first publication in the early 90’s and I enjoyed but I must admit on this second reading it felt somewhat dated if not dull and formulaic.   It certainly has an explosive (literally) start with the brutal death of the wife and daughter of a quietly spoken man called Nguyen Ngoc Mi......more

Goodreads review by Brian on January 22, 2022

A fictional 1980s IRA bombing campaign undertaken by a rogue Active Service Unit outraged by the Sinn Fein leadership's move to a more conciliatory stance kills a mother and daughter out shopping when a Knightsbridge bomb explodes. Their father, a Viet Cong veteran and boat person seeks legitimate r......more

Goodreads review by Tom on December 15, 2012

In Vietnam Nguyen Ngoc Minh was a Vietnemase killer but he switched sides and went with the US and he became a ruthless hunter of his former comrades. At the end of the war the North was overtaking the South and Nguyen had to get out with his family. He made it to the American Embassy with passes to go......more

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