Year of the Tiger (eBook)

Jack Higgins (Autor)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
272 Seiten
HarperCollins Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-00-738476-1 (ISBN)

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In 1959, British agents masterminded the escape of the Dalai Lama from Tibet. Three years later, Paul Chavasse is doing it all over again? A vitally important scientist, holding intelligence that could shift the balance of world power, is being held in China. British secret agent Paul Chavasse, responsible for extracting the Dalai Lama from under Chinese noses, is the perfect man to slip through the border, locate the scientist and bring him back to the West. But Chavasse's nerve, stamina and loyalties will all be tested as he finds the Chinese are reluctant to let their asset go without a fight?

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The Bureau's most deadly enforcer Paul Chavasse is back in a revised and expanded edition of Jack Higgins' classic spy thriller.In 1959, agents acting for British Intelligence masterminded the famous escape of the Dalai Lama from Tibet. For Paul Chavasse, expert linguist and special agent of the Bureau, it had been a once-in-a-lifetime operation...But three years later, Whitehall summons him again for a top secret mission against the occupying Chinese forces. Chavasse is the only man who knows about Tibet. Who knows about the evil its oppressors are capable of. Who knows how to bring a vitally important space scientist back to the West alive.An illegal plane flight through the Himalayas, a dangerous rendezvous with the Tibetan freedom fighters, almost certain confrontation with a trigger-happy army and a vicious captor ... Chavasse knew his mission would be difficult and dangerous. No one warned him it would be impossible.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-00-738476-9 / 0007384769
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-738476-1 / 9780007384761