num_pages: 272
description: The clock is ticking for Hong Kong. On July 1 1997 the British Crown Colony will be handed over to the People's Republic of China. But hopes for a peaceful transition are shattered when a series of terrorist acts threatens the fragile relationship between Britain and China. A solicitor from London is killed by a car bomb; a British officer retaliates by assassinating two officials visiting from Beijing; an explosion eliminates the elite of a major British corporation. With ten days of British sovereignty left James Bond is dispatched to Hong Kong to investigate these incidents and avert a political crisis that could jeopardize the upcoming historical event. He suspects there are connections with the nefarious Chinese underworld Triad. But the truth is difficult to uncover. Bond must navigate a startling maze of characters - a suspicious British taipan a sinister Triad leader a sadistic Chinese general and an exotic dancer with alluring seductive skills - before exposing a fiendish plot of revenge with roots reaching back more than a century and a half.
language: English
title: Zero Minus Ten
publisher: Putnam Adult