The Burma Legacy - Hardcover

Archer, Geoffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0712682465 ISBN 13: 9780712682466

Publisher: Random House UK, 2002

Synopsis

Sam Packer, hero of Firehawk and The Lucifer Network, has a new assignment that will tax all his diplomatic and survival skills. A British car company is to be rescued by an ageing Japanese tycoon, but this fact gives rise to death threats from a campaigning survivor of the infamous Burma railway.

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ngle still holds bloody secrets.

An explosive new thriller featuring Sam Packer, from the bestselling author of The Lucifer Network.

Sam Packer, hero of Fire Hawk and The Lucifer Network has a new assignment that will combine all his diplomatic and survival skills. An aging, wealthy Japanese businessman, Tetsuo Kamata, wants to rescue an ailing British car company, but from the moment of the announcement, death threats are made against Kamata by a former prisoner-of-war, Peregrine Harrison, who was tortured on the infamous Burma Railway. For the last five decades, Harrison has been the leader of a British-based cult. Packer cannot believe that at the age of 77, Harrison has the strength or will to exact revenge, but he reckons without Harrison’s cult adherents, one of whom is a ruthless ex-SAS operative now involved in drug-smuggling in the Burma triangle. Packer learns that Kamata will be hit while visiting a new factory si

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“A tautly written thriller.” – Manchester Evening Post

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“Geoffrey Archer has again used his ITN experience in a sinuous mix of international threats that are coming to have the same chill-factor as the fear that underpinned the best Cold War thrillers.” -- Daily Telegraph

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“A plot constructed with devilish cunning.” -- Daily Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0712682465
• ISBN 13: 9780712682466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336