Hungry Ghost, Stephen Leather
Hungry Ghost, Stephen Leather
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Hungry Ghost

Author: Stephen Leather

Narrator: Russell Boulter

Unabridged: 11 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2007

Synopsis

Geoff Howells, a government-trained killing machine, is brought out of retirement and sent to Hong Kong. His brief: to assassinate Chinese Mafia leader, Simon Ng. Howells devises a dangerous and complicated plan to reach his intended victim – only to find himself the next target… Patrick Dugan, a Hong Kong policeman, has been held back in his career because of his connections – his sister is married to Simon Ng. But when Ng’s daughter is kidnapped and Ng himself disappears, Dugan gets caught up in a series of violent events and an international spying intrigue that has run out of control…

About Stephen Leather

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country's most successful ebook authors and his titles have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages and he has also written for television.You can learn more from Stephen's website, www.stephenleather.com, and find him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stephenleatherofficial/.Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, www.danspidershepherd.com, and for his Jack Nightingale series, www.jacknightingale.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike

Well sorry Salman Rushdie. After reading the last Stephen Leather book I was so impressed I bought two on Amazon. They arrived whilst reading the Rushdie. I swiftly chose gratuitous violence and Lee Child type characters over the intellectual musings of Mr Rushdie. Yes ok I am a shallow reader😉 The H......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

Loved this book and the author, will definitely be reading more! Start seemed slow and mundane but the pace soon picked up and I could not put it down. Love the way the antagonist was so underplayed and likeable. I would go as far as to say that Geoff Howells could have tried little harder to redeem......more

Goodreads review by colin tourick

great book Stephen Leather at his best. A really enjoyable read, it twists and turns right up to the final page. Excellent.......more

Goodreads review by Paul

I enjoyed reading this, but it didn’t blow me away. Seemed very male character dominated and I guess this was “as it’s Time” in that the word it was set in and written about, however it did seem a bit one dimensional. It was readable and gave an good is insight into the HK/Chinese handover and some of......more

Goodreads review by Jackie

This is set in Hong Kong a police man Patrick Dugan has had his career st back because of his sister marriage to a triad leader there is a kidnapping of Dugan's niece and Dugan gets caught up of events also a government trained assassin is out of retirement and is dangerous very highly passed thrill......more

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