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A Game of Deceit
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Richard Knox, freshly returned to active duty after a year out of the field, is ordered to uncover the invisible enemy that’s infiltrated the Service in his absence.
His quest takes him to Hong Kong, a city on the brink of chaos, where he discovers the lines between friend and foe have never been more blurred.
Who is behind the assault on MI5? How long have they been operating in the shadows? And what is their endgame?
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Spy trail from London to Hong Kong
The author says:
As the saying goes, truth is often stranger than fiction.
The image of a double-decker trundling past a neon sight in Chinese script may sound like a rather ovvious writerly concerit about intermingling cultures. But it was the reality of Hong Kong in the sixties. It still is now. It’s a place as fascinating and multifaceted as Berlin, Istanblu or Beirut.
The pro-communist protests and riots of 1967 that form the background to this novel have been intentionally forgotten by the offical histories of both Hong Kong and the Peoples Republic of China – perhaps by the former because they happened, and by the latter because theiy failed to hasten the departure of the British.
Even today, as Beijing exerts increasing power over the Special Adminstrative Region, the events of 1967 are overlooked. But they really did happen with all their modern resonances and the curious details about loudspeaker propaganda and unwitting popstar poster boys that feature in A Game of Deceit.”
BookTrail Boarding Pass: A Game of Deceit
Destination/Location: London, Hong Kong Author: Tim Glister Departure: 1967
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