Quiller Bamboo
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Publisher Description
London’s secret Bureau sends Quiller to Hong Kong to rescue a well-known Chinese dissident who might be able to lead an uprising that would topple the despotic Chinese regime. While the first rescue mission succeeds, Quiller and the rather intractable dissident he is guarding encounter enemies, some disguised as friends, after they land in Tibet’s high-mountain and desolate capital Llasa. Quiller must use ingenuity as well as his incomparable combat skills to survive this deadly environment. 15th novel in the highly acclaimed Quiller series.
"Hall has created a new form: the spy thriller that is all action and yet cerebral, a writing feat few can match."
- The Boston Globe
"Fast and tense. Quiller is one of suspense literature's great secret agents!"
- Houston Chronicle
"They don't get any tougher or more intelligent than the Quiller tales."
- Rocky Mountain News
"Quiller is by now a primary reflex."
- Kirkus Reviews
"Tension in a novel is difficult to maintain at a pitch that actually creates a physical impact on the reader. A few of the best writers can do it, and among them is Adam Hall."
- London Times Literary Supplement
"Tense, intelligent, harsh, surprising..."
- The New York Times
(Quiller is) "the greatest survival expert among contemporary secret agents."
- The New York Times
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
His latest mission--his 16th--takes British intelligence agent Quiller on a tense adventure to exotic locales in the Far East. He is assigned to ensure a safe passage out of China for Dr. Xingyu Baibing, renowned Chinese astrophysicist and popular dissident leader. Xingyu's ouspoken support of democracy, which helped incite student rebellions culminating in the 1989 riots in Tiananmen Square, is shared by the ambassador Qiao, an intelligence source for the West. The assignment, which could signal the inception of a new Chinese leadership sympathetic to capitalism, is daunting to Quiller, but his anxiety seems to have been for naught in light of the anticlimactic ending. Insistently driving home the conflict between democracy and communism, Hall's characteristically lean prose offers some exciting moments, but several sequences, such as Quiller's secret stay in a Tibetan monastery, are needlessly drawn out.
