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The Burma Legacy (Paperback)

by Geoffrey Archer (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (6 Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099427958
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099427957
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 386,318 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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MI6 agent Sam Packer's new assignment involves protecting Tetsuo Kamata, a Japanese tycoon who will rescue an ailing British car company but has faced death threats by a former PoW who was tortured on the infamous Burma railway. And in the Burmese jungle Packer becomes both hunter and hunted as he searches for Kamata's kidnappers.

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Sam Packer, hero of "Firehawk" and "The Lucifer Network", has a new assignment that will combine all his diplomatic and survival skills. An aging, wealthy Japanese businessman, Tetsuo Kamata, wants to rescue an ailing British car company, but the moment the announcement is made, death threats are made against Kamata by a former prisoner-of-war, Peregrine Harrison, who was tortured on the infamous Burma Railway. For the last five decades, Harrison has been the leader of a British-based cult. Packer can't believe that at the age of 77 Harrison has the strength or will to exact revenge, but he reckons without Harrison's cult adherents, one of whom is a ruthless ex-SAS operative now involved in drug smuggling in the Burma triangle. Packer learns that Kamata will be hit while visiting a new factory site in Burma and is flown out under cover to prevent a tragedy. Kamata is kidnapped and Packer is soon in the jungle, both hunter and hunted as he searches for the missing man and is tracked by his enemies.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Get on with it!, 3 Oct 2005
By R. Selby (London) - See all my reviews
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The premise is plausible enough - an ageing British ex-POW wants to get even with his one-time Japanese captor. On his tail is MI6 secret service agent Sam Packer.

The ex-POW, Perry Harrison, is well-drawn character. He speaks directly to the reader through his 'autobiography', a fake book-ina-book that the hero Packer refers to. You get to understand Perry's motives and learn about his strange past.

Unfortunately, the hero Packer is one-dimensional clche of a character. He goes after pretty girls, has no regard for his own safety, is loyal to his country, doubts his boss. All the usual stuff.

Archer is at his best when the action finally gets to Burma. He's at his worst in the lengthy build up (two thirds of thebook) to this point. I mean, we know the POW is going to take a crack at the Jap in Burma. The clue is in the book's name. So why waste time with the detective wondering whether the POW really has it in him to do it? I don't buy a book called the Burma Legacy to read about Ealing Broadway in London.

Archer is at his worst in the book's dull leaden sex scenes. They should never let him write one again. But the really strange thing is he
sets up - then totally blows - a golden opportunity to subvert the standard detective sex scene. A needy, unattractive female character holds a vital clue but she wants Sam Packer to sleep with her before she'll give him it. There could have been a great cringe-making sex scene where the reluctant hero is forced to bed a fat spotty unnattractive girl. But no, Packer makes an excuse about being HIV positive and gets the information off the girl anyway. Which makes this reader wonder why he bothered with setting up this female character in the first place, as she does very little else to forward the plot.

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