Formosa Straits

by Anthony Hyde

Book Overview

"[AN] INTRIGUING THRILLER . . . A fast-paced, multilayered plot." *SanFranciscoChronicle When Chinese-American entrepreneur Nick Lamp ventures to Taipei to meet with Cao Dai, a shady, influential... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449225763
• ISBN13: 9780449225769
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

A Hunt For Buried Treasure

Stripped to its barest essentials this is the story of a hunt for buried treasure. As a novel of international intrigue FORMOSA STRAITS is above average and it is laced with captivating bits of Chinese history. The author also gives us some scandalous morsels about both Mao Tse-tung and Chiang Kai-Shek.

Complex, subtle, facinating!

Wonderful sense of being in a foreign land. While the protagonist is very much the foreigner, he is a sophisticated foreigner who is able to believably convey the strangeness of a strange land. Complex, well plotted, fully fleshed out minor characters; Hyde is really cooking in this one.

A Great Thriller About Today China

I ordered this one because i LOVED 'Red Fox'(the BEST thriller about Russia{and I can say- I live in this country}),and I am glad, that I did. It moves at breakneck speed,plot thickens more and more all the time...breathtaking.The characters are complex, which really adds to the experience.If you want a good thriller with beliavable characters and solid writing-get this one.