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Digby Durrant reviews three thrillers

Typhoon lacks the originality of the other two books but it is a very good example of the geo-political conspiracy world of spies who double- and triple-cross their apparent allies and friends while ostensibly forwarding their own country’s interests and are often found tongue-less in some murky backwater or lost forever to rot on the sea bed if the sharks happen to miss them on the way down. In this case the plot is to stir up and destabilise China by fomenting revolution amongst its many dissident elements. It ends in carnage, of course. But whether all the bloodshed this modern version of the Great Game has caused has finally made an iota of difference to either American or British security is the question Charles Cumming poses. Clearly he doesn’t think so. Does anyone?

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