The Chinese Agent is an intelligent spoof of 1960's spy stories, with a jewel thief called Arthur Hodgekiss inadvertently getting in the way of a struggle between British agent Jerry Cornell and Chinese agent Kung Fu Tzu over some top secret plans. While the novel functions well as a standalone story, regular Moorcock readers will recognise some familiar figures, and with the hero bearing the name Jerry Cornell, shades of Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novels are most apparent. Cornell's world is similar to Cornelius', in that he inhabits a pop-culture strewn London and is plagued by his family, but Cornell is a much more down to Earth character than the debonair Cornelius, and the lack of experimental writing techniques make for a good solid story with plenty of ironic winks at the genre. Good fun.
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