內容簡介
內容簡介 成龍與皮爾斯.布洛南領銜主演的電影《英倫對決》(The Foreigner)電影書封版。英國驚悚大師史蒂芬.萊瑟 (Stephen Leather) 筆下,為了找回正義,一人單挑愛爾蘭共和軍的精彩動作小說。阮玉明曾經是個越共,他擅打叢林戰、沉默寡言、又可以將敵人置於死地,後來倒戈幫助美軍打越共,這使得他在越戰過後,遭到北越政府的追殺,原本可以透過美國大使館的安排離開越南,卻因為陰錯陽差沒有及時趕上最後一班直升機,三年的牢獄生活後才與妻女團聚。想方設法終於可以離開越南,但是其中一個女兒生了病,只得放下妻子和生病的孩子,帶著兩個女兒搭船離開。不料在中國南海上,船隻遭劫,阮玉明無助地看著兩個女兒被泰國海盜強暴致死。妻子與小女兒最終與他在倫敦相會,阮玉明現在是個沉默、工作勤奮、卑微的小餐館老闆,在南倫敦經營外帶生意。一切的平靜,就在妻女進到騎士橋的百貨公司遭到愛爾蘭共和軍的炸彈攻擊死亡而結束了。他開始詢問當局,誰是這起事件的主導人,沒有人願意回答他,所有人都把他的追問當作耳邊風。既然沒有人可以幫他討回正義,那麼,那個曾經在叢林中殺敵無數的男人,將以隻身之力為妻女復仇!**Now a major motion picture as THE FOREIGNER starring Pierce Brosnan and Jackie Chan.**Stephen Leather's BESTSELLING breakthrough thriller.The Chinaman understood death.Jungle-skilled, silent and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. He had watched helpless when his two eldest daughters had been raped and killed by Thai pirates.Now all that was behind him. Quiet, hard-working and unassuming, he was building up his South London take-away business.Until the day his wife and youngest daughter were destroyed by an IRA bomb in a Knightsbridge department store.Then, simply but persistently, he began to ask the authorities who were the men responsible, what was being done. And was turned away, fobbed off, treated as a nuisance.Which was when the Chinaman, denied justice, decided on revenge. And went back to war.
作者介紹
作者介紹 Stephen Leather史蒂芬.萊瑟 (Stephen Leather)是英國最成功的驚悚作家與電子書和《星期天泰晤士報》的暢銷作家,以Dan 'Spider' Shepherd系列以及Jack Nightingale超自然推理小說聞名。成為專職作家前,曾任職包括香港《南華早報》與英國各大報社的記者超過十年的時間。Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country's most successful ebook authors and his titles have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages and he has also written for television.You can learn more from Stephen's website, www.stephenleather.com, find him on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com stephenleather.Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, www.danspidershepherd.com, and for his Jack Nightingale series, www.jacknightingale.com.