- Hardcover: 544 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (6 May 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007163495
- ISBN-13: 978-0007163496
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,305,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Kent knows his subject at first hand and the expertise shows on the page: high stakes, pounding tension and the best dogfights put on paper. A lot of thrillers these days, you come away feeling like you’ve been in a simulator. Gordon Kent straps you into the real thing. Enjoy the ride!’
IAN RANKIN, on Night Trap
‘Flying, spying and dying – Night Trap is the real straight Navy stuff. Better strap yourself to the chair. I loved it.’
STEPHEN COONTS
‘Tom Clancy used to have the high-tech military thriller stakes all to himself but now Gordon Kent has entered the field, and how. There’s action on all fronts with Alan Craik at the heart of it, whether it’s a carrier group in the Med confronting a rogue Russian sub commander, mounting a rescue mission for a captured CIA agent in Africa, or helping combat a high-level conspiracy in Washington. Non-stop … a smoking gun of a story.’
Northern Echo, on Peacemaker
‘Told with all the authority of inside knowledge … an absorbing tale of international skulduggery.’
Irish News, on Peacemaker
‘Consistently excellent … loaded with gunfights, snappy dialogue and the aerial hijinks of supersonic jet fighters. The high testosterone doses satisfy, but best is the complex and clever web of motive Kent weaves for the mole.’
Publishers Weekly, on Top Hook
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From the acclaimed author of Night Trap, Peacemaker and Top Hook, an exhilarating new tale of modern espionage and flying adventure featuring US Navy intelligence officer Alan Craik – sure to appeal to the many fans of Tom Clancy and Dale Brown.
For years, a high-level CIA mole has been passing secrets to china. now he’s gone, but he’s left a deadly legacy…
In the seas off Seattle, an unidentified submarine is shadowing American ballistic-missile subs. US Navy intelligence officer Alan Craik will have to draw on all his experience of aerial anti-submarine warfare to track it down. Yet unexpected complications from his last mission threaten to put him out of action before he can even get started.
It is only weeks since Craik’s pursuit of CIA mole George Shreed ended in a spectacular shootout. Now it seems there are some dangerous people in Washington and Beijing whose world has been shattered by Shreed’s fall from grace. They all have their own reasons for revenge – and they will risk everything to achieve it.
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I have enjoyed all the previous books in this series and have always regarded Gordon Kent as being much under-rated. Sadly this one just does not work. While there is good characterisation and interplay, the plot does not engage and is very slow. It was an effort to pick up the book and read through it, it was neither exciting or fast paced and I rather lost the will to live.
The author(s) are capable of so much more and I hope they get back on track.
The author(s) are capable of so much more and I hope they get back on track.
Format:Paperback
This is an old fashioned Ludlum/Le Carre type spy novel which is overladen with characters, dubious plot twists and lots of contrived exotic locations and which manages to be excruciatingly boring. I bought a second hand copy and found in the middle of the book, a directory of character names written by the previous owner, obviously as an aide memoire. I was relieved that someone else had experienced my problem with this book. If this is what espionage is about then death by boredom is obviously the main occupational hazard.
Format:Paperback
Firstly, I have a disagreement with the cover of this book, despite the aircraft on the cove this is not a flying book. It is primarily a spy story with some minor flying parts. Think of it like that and you will not be disappointed.
It's also part of a series and this is one of the later books so it will help if you have read some of the earlier novels by the same author.
I did not find this a bad read although the plot is quite complicated for an airport book, albeit not quite Smiley's People.
It's also part of a series and this is one of the later books so it will help if you have read some of the earlier novels by the same author.
I did not find this a bad read although the plot is quite complicated for an airport book, albeit not quite Smiley's People.
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