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Typhoon
Charles Cumming
Perfect for fans of John le Carré, a gripping and suspenseful spy thriller from ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday)Hong Kong, 1997. Only a few short months of British rule remain before the territory returns to Chinese control.It’s a feverish city. And the spooks are hard at work, jostling for position and influence. So when an elderly man emerges from the sea, claiming to know secrets he will share only with the British Governor, a young MI6 officer, Joe Lennox, sees the chance to make his reputation.But when the old man, a high-profile Chinese professor, is spirited away in the middle of the night by the CIA, it’s clear that there’s a great deal more at stake here than a young spy’s career.The professor holds the key to a sinister and ambitious plan that could have catastrophic repercussions for the world in the twenty-first century…
CHARLES CUMMING
Typhoon
Copyright (#ulink_c8f305af-0755-55f7-b5d4-d69d789e0324)
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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First published by Michael Joseph, Penguin Books, in 2008
Copyright © Charles Cumming 2008
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Source ISBN: 9780007487189
Ebook Edition © 2013 ISBN: 9780007487219
Version: 2015-07-07
For Iris and Stanley
and
to the memory of Pierce Loughran
(1969-2005)
Table of Contents
Title Page (#u201d082d-df03-51c3-8d75-c1696146ddda)
Copyright (#u20b7998d-2589-5bd5-9cf5-5c7aabd5a266)
Dedication (#u81eb77eb-966e-5eff-9788-e10327967ec1)
Epigraph (#u2dd72c32-ca16-5cfe-a9fc-df6dee6846eb)
Map (#uf42b7c4a-6f26-5141-8ab2-113a491b28ec)
Prologue (#uacc027a7-6591-5dd5-8f2a-be2f401d1131)
Part One: Hong Kong 1997 (#u59d2ea75-2b5a-5dca-a9ea-104ef50b4606)
1. On the Beach (#uf485a995-f54e-5401-ad0b-0ab668c6be3c)
2. Black Watch (#u2225a6f4-cb8d-545a-8c49-f722157deeeb)
3. Lennox (#u45b80d7e-8b93-5fc3-b256-bd169c90d506)
4. Isabella (#uab3fb619-b563-5620-9dc6-1a129b5d4c24)
5. The House of a Thousand Arseholes (#u14e651f2-1c9e-522b-a139-46f6f29e532b)
6. Cousin Miles (#u2736d952-ae18-5720-bbf4-8f92c5830ac0)
7. Wang (#u9425ae5d-f35c-577e-9487-96c725b559e0)
8. Xinjiang (#u61741dd2-da1d-5c55-8d2f-a6f97a147129)
9. Club 64 (#uaf33dca4-bbf0-5890-8733-8de9c2888754)
10. Ablimit Celil (#u74e2e8da-6b53-5c32-9931-70d7d91b4844)
11. Tiananmen (#ua9b983ab-6b1f-521f-9fd2-8bd9bb578f36)
12. A Good Walk Spoiled (#u96f3063c-2290-569d-b1f1-718ae199c5fa)
13. The Double (#ua826f112-2d1f-50c5-bfde-ca3c824f96f8)
14. Samba’s (#u775bd32f-b40f-5020-84fd-bb2a2ee4b945)
15. Underground (#litres_trial_promo)
16. Twilight (#litres_trial_promo)
17. Quid Pro Quo (#litres_trial_promo)
18. Maryland (#litres_trial_promo)
19. The Engagement (#litres_trial_promo)
20. Chinese Whispers (#litres_trial_promo)
21. Chen (#litres_trial_promo)
22. Dinner for Two (#litres_trial_promo)
23. Wui Gwai (#litres_trial_promo)
24. Handover (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Two: London 2004 (#litres_trial_promo)
25. Not Quite the Diplomat (#litres_trial_promo)
26. Chinatown (#litres_trial_promo)
27. Water Under the Bridge (#litres_trial_promo)
28. Retread (#litres_trial_promo)
29. The Backstop (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Three: Shanghai 2005 (#litres_trial_promo)
30. The Paris of Asia (#litres_trial_promo)
31. Tourism (#litres_trial_promo)
32. Sleeper (#litres_trial_promo)
33. Starbucks (#litres_trial_promo)
34. Nightcrawling (#litres_trial_promo)
35. The Morning After (#litres_trial_promo)
36. The Diplomatic Bag (#litres_trial_promo)
37. An Old Friend (#litres_trial_promo)
38. M on the Bund (#litres_trial_promo)
39. Persuasion (#litres_trial_promo)
40. Beijing (#litres_trial_promo)
41. Hutong (#litres_trial_promo)
42. Paradise City (#litres_trial_promo)
43. The French Concession (#litres_trial_promo)
44. Screen Four (#litres_trial_promo)
45. Borne Back (#litres_trial_promo)
46. The Last Supper (#litres_trial_promo)
47. Product (#litres_trial_promo)
48. Closing In (#litres_trial_promo)
49. Chatter (#litres_trial_promo)
50. 6/11 (#litres_trial_promo)
51. Beijing Red (#litres_trial_promo)
52. Bob (#litres_trial_promo)
53. The Testimony of Joe Lennox (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Also by Charles Cumming (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
The superior man understands what is right;
the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius
Prologue (#ulink_dd89ac50-af9d-5089-8c25-679f127aa67f)
‘Washington has gone crazy.’
I am standing at the foot of Joe’s bed in the Worldlink Hospital. Six days have passed since the attacks of 11 June. There are plastic tubes running from valves on his wrists, a cardiac monitor attached by pads to the spaces between the bruises and cuts on his chest.
‘What do you mean?’
‘Only a handful of people at Langley knew what Miles was up to. Nobody else had the faintest idea what the hell was going on out here.’
‘Who told you this?’
