Sinkiang Executive

by Adam Hall and Elleston Trevor

Book Overview

When satellite cameras pick up a strange new missile complex in Yelingrad, a frozen city on the Russo-Chinese border, Quiller, the Bureau's top intelligence agent, is sent to investigate. Reprint.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0006158986
• ISBN13: 9780006158981
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Fontana / Collins
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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The Sinkiang Executive

Agreed with the previous one in general. I think the beginning, the idea that they wanna sack him & the way they coax him into this new mission are actually more interesting than the execution of the mission itself. And it's indeed a pity the reference to the other mission that led to the murder he committed for the girl in Prague isn't among the other stories: for awhile I kept looking for it. Especially a pity, because many references are indeed linked. However, later in Quiller Salamander there'll be a reference to the episode when Quiller killed "for his own reasons".

Quiller on the Russian/Chinese Border

Not the greatest of the Quiller series but certainly something different. Quiller, facing the sack as a result of exposing the Bureau to hazard finds himself in a Russian MIG, exposed to a Bureau double-agent and facing the wrath of Ferris as the price for his re-admission to the Bureau. My only real criticism of the book is that some of the 'threads' into other (unwritten) stories are not explored and look like they never will be. Quiller saves the day but as usual winds up smelling like something from the local garbage dump. Really enjoyed the opening of this one!