ISBN: 9780593101230
Editorial: Berkley
Autor: Bell, Ted
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 352
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Product DescriptionAlex Hawke is sailing into trouble when an around-the-world journey becomes a fight against terror in the latest exciting adventure from New York Times bestselling novelist Ted Bell.After saving the kidnapped heir to the British throne, gentleman spy and MI6 legend Alex Hawke is due for some downtime. He’s got a new custom built sailing yacht and a goal: to get closer to his son Alexi during an epic cruise across the seven seas.But fate and the chief of MI6, Lord David Trulove, have other plans.There’s an unholy alliance of nations who are plotting to attack Western democracies. The wily intelligence leader plans to use Hawke to drive a knife into the heart of this conspiracy. From an island base off Cuba to a secret jungle lair deep in the Amazon, on the land and the seas, the master spy and his crew of incorrigibles are in for the fight of their lives—the fight for freedom.About the AuthorTed Bell is the former chairman of the board and creative director of Young & Rubicam, one of the world's largest advertising agencies. He is the New York Times bestselling author of the Alex Hawke series as well as the YA adventure novels Nick of Time and The Time Pirate. He has recently been writer-in-residence at Cambridge University (UK) and visiting scholar at the Department of Politics and International Relations.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Chapter 1Hawke, lighting yet another Marlboro, lay back with his curly black head resting against the red leather cushion, pausing to digest what he'd read so far. He closed his eyes and allowed himself to fantasize about that first meeting coming up. The one wherein all the MI6 lads from the third floor would be summoned to C's conference room to be debriefed on all the available intel on the Tang Dynasty known to man. And when they'd wrapped it all up, Hawke, ever the hero to the rescue, would arise at the table and, smiling, would begin to debrief the lads from the third floor!He read on, deep into the rainy night. And deep into the murky mists of times long past.Now General Deng Xi Tang withdrew a white stone from his lacquered Go ke and held it lightly twixt the tip of his middle finger and the nail of his index. Passing strange how cool to the touch the smooth stones always felt. Some minutes passed in silence, but his concentration was not on the game, which, in its 176th gesture, had begun to concrete toward the inevitable. The general's dark and deep-set eyes came to rest on his handsome young opponent, who, for his part, was completely absorbed by the patterns of black-and-white stones on the pale yellow board.General Tang found himself distracted and conflicted. He had decided, sadly, that the young boy, his dear son and the brilliant legitimate scion of the Tang Triad, must be sent away to Japan as soon as possible. Preferably to Kyoto, where his Japanese mother had gone home to her family estate to live out her remaining days before the cancer finally triumphed in the epic battle raging within her frail person. In a stroke of luck, General Tang had once more been ordered into combat. The Japanese were coming. An invasion was coming. War was coming. Tonight, his dear son, Tommy Tang, would have to be told of his own imminent departure.But not just now. It would spoil the flavor of the game, and that would be unkind because, for the very first time, the young man was winning. He would be told the news after supper, after he'd had a chance to savor his victory at the 2,500-year-old game of Go. Tommy would depart on the morrow.After the game, despite emerging victorious, Tommy found that he was unsettled; something in his father's darting eyes and restless hands had raised alarms. Secrets were being kept in this house. Tommy was peering through the curtain at shifting shadows of things he could not see. Things were not at all as they seemed. He'd been sensing all this for some time now. He needed fresh air. This vas
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