- Paperback: 656 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (9 April 2010)
- ISBN-10: 0007375204
- ISBN-13: 978-0007375202
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,512,948 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. 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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Format:Mass Market Paperback
This was an exciting and enjoyable read. Although I read it before I read the preceding three novels, I had no trouble following the story, although I would obviously recommend prospective readers to start with the earlier novels first! A US Naval Intelligence officer, Alan Craik, has been wounded on a mission that went very wrong, in a which a fellow officier, George Shreed, was killed. Shreed was supposed to have been captured alive, since he is a suspected traitor. Craik is held responsible for the mission going bad, and has not met with much sympathy from his superiors, in spite of his injuries. Craik is given a chance to redeem himself, and the story takes off from therem with sizeable measures of intrigue and manipulation, both on the behalf of Craik's own side, and that of the Chinese, who were "running" Shreed when he was killed. I very much enjoyed the way that this father-son team of authors dealth with the Chinese in this novel! Oh man, Patrick Robinson could learn a ton and then some from this duo! And unlike Vince Flynn, these two get their airports and airlines right! While the characters are not particularly well developed, the plot is clever, action-packed, and fast paced, and remains exciting to the end. I recommend this novel with three-and-a-half stars.
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Excellent and exciting read
16 Oct 2005
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This was an exciting and enjoyable read. Although I read it before I read the preceding three novels, I had no trouble following the story, although I would obviously recommend prospective readers to start with the earlier novels first! A US Naval Intelligence officer, Alan Craik, has been wounded on a mission that went very wrong, in a which a fellow officier, George Shreed, was killed. Shreed was supposed to have been captured alive, since he is a suspected traitor. Craik is held responsible for the mission going bad, and has not met with much sympathy from his superiors, in spite of his injuries. Craik is given a chance to redeem himself, and the story takes off from therem with sizeable measures of intrigue and manipulation, both on the behalf of Craik's own side, and that of the Chinese, who were "running" Shreed when he was killed. I very much enjoyed the way that this father-son team of authors dealth with the Chinese in this novel! Oh man, Patrick Robinson could learn a ton and then some from this duo! And unlike Vince Flynn, these two get their airports and airlines right! While the characters are not particularly well developed, the plot is clever, action-packed, and fast paced, and remains exciting to the end. I recommend this novel with three-and-a-half stars.
too much unexplained navy/intel jargon
19 Feb 2012
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the second Gordon Kent novel, and I found the Navy jargon---MARI, comm plan, etc.,etc.--left me puzzled what was going on, with no explanation, and very distracting for an army grunt.
Stopped reading both of them 50 pages in and never finished either one.
Stopped reading both of them 50 pages in and never finished either one.
Tinker tailor soldier spy
24 Jun 2005
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book took me back to by-gone realm when George Smiley battled his arch nemesis in Moscow Center. While the enemy is more up-to-date (the Red Chinese), the stakes nonetheless are the same.
George Shreed is dead. Long live George. Was he a double agent, stretching back over decades of deceit? Was a brilliant spymaster, who managed to land a master stroke against his enemies? Did Chen control Shreed or was it the other way around? And what was/is Chinese Checkers?
This book takes up where TOP HOOK ends. Only things are not going well for the good guys. I loved the tug of war and the not quite bad and not quite good characters.
The one thing I really don't like in this book is the hero Alan Craik. I think he's an over zealous hot dog that should have been yanked out of the Navy. Leaving that aside, the book has a marvelous pacing that keeps you reading well into the night.
George Shreed is dead. Long live George. Was he a double agent, stretching back over decades of deceit? Was a brilliant spymaster, who managed to land a master stroke against his enemies? Did Chen control Shreed or was it the other way around? And what was/is Chinese Checkers?
This book takes up where TOP HOOK ends. Only things are not going well for the good guys. I loved the tug of war and the not quite bad and not quite good characters.
The one thing I really don't like in this book is the hero Alan Craik. I think he's an over zealous hot dog that should have been yanked out of the Navy. Leaving that aside, the book has a marvelous pacing that keeps you reading well into the night.
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