Typhoon is the first inside account of the RAF's long war against ISIS; a campaign in which any mistake could have devastating consequences. The more inquisitive child these days would probably Google an image of a Typhoon in an instant, but many wouldn’t and some couldn’t. The professor holds the key to a sinister and ambitious plan that could have catastrophic repercussions for the world in the next century . Publisher's windmill device on title page, without "Reserved for the Colonies only" on verso of title page, and with publisher's monogram on rear cover.

The team scaled the opposite wall and tightrope walked gingerly along the perimeter until they reached the second-story balcony of the adjacent building. The omniscient narrator quotes from Jukes's letters to him, and the friend comments to his shipmates about a letter from Jukes. First edition, first issue with publisher's windmill device on title page, no "Reserved for the Colonies" notice on copyright page and with publisher's 32 page catalogue at rear. Clifford Thurlow has lived all over the world and has worked as a gem stone dealer, a foreign correspondent for The Observer in Athens and as one of the team translating works from Tibetan into English for the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, where he wrote his first book, Stories from Beyond the Clouds, an anthology of Tibetan folk stories.The pair were unusual in that the smaller one followed closely behind the taller one and was holding her hand.

Wang is a Chinese defector who has swam from old China to Hong Kong with information about atrocities committed by the Chinese in one of the more Muslim provences. While Macwhirr, who, according to Conrad, "never walked on this Earth", is emotionally estranged from his family and crew, and though he refuses to consider an alternate course to skirt the typhoon, his indomitable will in the face of a superior natural force elicits grudging admiration. Cumming's works take place in the latter part of the 20th and early 21st centuries and so if you have been paying attention at all the backdrops are familiar. I enjoyed this story more than either Heart of Darkness or Youth, mainly due to Conrad’s surprisingly powerful and descriptive language and the misdirection he employs.The last section (probs 100 pages) really ramped up and trying to read it under my own time constraints added spectacularly to the tension and bubbling to the finale which overall I have to give credit for. The plot is to discover and then thwart an extreme project to de-stabilise parts of China and undermine Beijing's triumphant emergence onto the world stage at the Beijing Olympics. Zhu wasn’t sure what that meant; Elena’s American vernacular didn’t always translate well in Mandarin.

Stones cut from all different shapes and sizes, mashed together like a giant puzzle and worn down after centuries of use, made the path rough and uneven.rubbed at the extremities else a very good copy in original slate gray cloth with top edge trimmed and other edges untrimmed.

A worn copy with some rubbing and corner wear to the covers and some spotting to the rear cover at the bottom. Cumming's latest spy novel, a New York Times noteworthy book, is great for the setting and the characters and that spycraft did not end with the Cold War and Le Carre. Somehow, M on the Bund and the shining malls are part of the same world as torture cells in provincial cities. Rare finely bound first edition collection of the writings of Joseph Conrad including a first issue of Almayer's Folly. This UK first impression of the first edition is the correct Cagle's binding "B" (only two or three copies of binding "A" are know to exist).Meanwhile, MI6 has set out to undermine them, since the two countries are operating at cross-purposes in China. This is a modern military adventure following a pair of sisters who just can’t seem to see eye to eye. Having graduated from Oxford with a first class degree in Mandarin in the mid 1990s he is, almost as a matter of course, recruited into MI6. He was about to bury his machete in Maribelle’s neck when an arrow streaked over his shoulder and punched into her skull.