THE MOTORCYCLE WAS PARKED IN FRONT OF

THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE LONDON

DEPARTMENT STORE, ITS HAZARD WARNING

LIGHTS FLASHING AMBER REFLECTIONS ON

THE WET ROAD. THE TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS

OF SEMTEX IN ITS CARRIER BOX EXPLODED IN

A BLAST OF BLINDING WHITE LIGHI....

In the tradition of Len Deighton, Jack Higgins, and Ken

Follett, Stephen Leather s THE CHINAMAN delivers

jolt after jolt of suspense a novel of vivid characters,

intense action and relentless excitement from first page

to last.

Among the many victims of the department store bomb

were a lovely young girl and her mother, the last surviv-

ing members of the family of Nguyen Ngoc Minh. A

North Vietnamese trained in guerrilla warfare, Nguyen

had escaped to the south and fought with the U.S.

Special Forces until the fall of Saigon. Abandoned by the

Americans, he made his way to London and a peaceful

new life as owner of a Chinese takeout restaurant. But

now, his family s slaughter has aroused in the battered,

slight survivor the passions of a warrior bent on

revenge.

Terrorists and bombings are an 0id story to the police

and the politicians; Nguyen is just a bothersome

"Chinaman" demanding justice from a system he does