Review of Conflict on the Yangtze
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Review of Conflict on the Yangtze
[Following is a volunteer review of "Conflict on the Yangtze" by Greg Kater.]
After the death of Commander Daniel Stafford, an operative in MI6, during his attempt of trying to track down a suspected conspiracy smuggling opium out of China into the USA, Australia, and the Philippines alongside his colleague, Lee Drake, Colonel John Cook decided to call in Jamie Munro and Jack O’Brien who had just returned from his honeymoon with his bride, Monique O'Brien, to replace Daniel Stafford and continue the investigation about the opium smuggling and shut it down.
After Colonel John Cook's calls trying to organize a plan for the trip, Harry Williams Jr, chief of the US intelligence agency, OSS, decided to go along with Jamie and Jacko to China as the drug smuggling concerns him too and they had already worked together breaking up a kidnapping cartel in the Philippines earlier that year, with Lee Drake supposed to join them once they reach Shanghai. With the plan to China all set, Carna, Jamie's wife, Monique, and Sarah, Jacko's wife and half-sister respectively were to be left behind in the Philippines with Jacko's parents-in-law, Henri and Bella Rousseau.
Conflict on the Yangtze written by Greg Kater is his fourth book and follows on from the trilogy and is mainly set in China after the Japanese defeat in World War Two, it shows how China was struggling as the government was corrupt, a civil war was going by as everyone was trying to be in control of China and the local bandit gangs weren't making the life easier for the Chinese people who were trying to survive.
Greg Kater did an almost perfect work with this book to follow on from the Warramunga trilogy, from the start when he gave a map of the Yangtze River and Shanghai for us to know the exact location of where the plot is taking place, to writing (* * * *) to represent something that is happening simultaneously but in a different location. Also, every time I thought that the plot will start to descend for the ending, Greg Kater manages to add a perfect plot twist to make it more interesting. Moreover, the book was professionally well edited and I couldn't find either a grammatical or a spelling error which was a bonus to this book
However, the book would have been better if there were more action scenes in it, don't get me wrong it still has a fair bit of action scenes but most of them were at the second half of the book. Other than that, the book was precisely done and I certainly enjoyed reading it.
I would rate this book 4 stars out of 4. Greg Kater did a great job in it and represented the different cultures of the people in the story and showcased the aftermath of World War Two in China pretty well. I would recommend this book to people who like to read about agents and their operations but anyone can enjoy reading it as it was an incredible story and can be easily read alone without the need of reading the trilogy before it.
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Conflict on the Yangtze
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After the death of Commander Daniel Stafford, an operative in MI6, during his attempt of trying to track down a suspected conspiracy smuggling opium out of China into the USA, Australia, and the Philippines alongside his colleague, Lee Drake, Colonel John Cook decided to call in Jamie Munro and Jack O’Brien who had just returned from his honeymoon with his bride, Monique O'Brien, to replace Daniel Stafford and continue the investigation about the opium smuggling and shut it down.
After Colonel John Cook's calls trying to organize a plan for the trip, Harry Williams Jr, chief of the US intelligence agency, OSS, decided to go along with Jamie and Jacko to China as the drug smuggling concerns him too and they had already worked together breaking up a kidnapping cartel in the Philippines earlier that year, with Lee Drake supposed to join them once they reach Shanghai. With the plan to China all set, Carna, Jamie's wife, Monique, and Sarah, Jacko's wife and half-sister respectively were to be left behind in the Philippines with Jacko's parents-in-law, Henri and Bella Rousseau.
Conflict on the Yangtze written by Greg Kater is his fourth book and follows on from the trilogy and is mainly set in China after the Japanese defeat in World War Two, it shows how China was struggling as the government was corrupt, a civil war was going by as everyone was trying to be in control of China and the local bandit gangs weren't making the life easier for the Chinese people who were trying to survive.
Greg Kater did an almost perfect work with this book to follow on from the Warramunga trilogy, from the start when he gave a map of the Yangtze River and Shanghai for us to know the exact location of where the plot is taking place, to writing (* * * *) to represent something that is happening simultaneously but in a different location. Also, every time I thought that the plot will start to descend for the ending, Greg Kater manages to add a perfect plot twist to make it more interesting. Moreover, the book was professionally well edited and I couldn't find either a grammatical or a spelling error which was a bonus to this book
However, the book would have been better if there were more action scenes in it, don't get me wrong it still has a fair bit of action scenes but most of them were at the second half of the book. Other than that, the book was precisely done and I certainly enjoyed reading it.
I would rate this book 4 stars out of 4. Greg Kater did a great job in it and represented the different cultures of the people in the story and showcased the aftermath of World War Two in China pretty well. I would recommend this book to people who like to read about agents and their operations but anyone can enjoy reading it as it was an incredible story and can be easily read alone without the need of reading the trilogy before it.
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Conflict on the Yangtze
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