The Year of the Scorpion

<p><strong>The first bullet caught the girl her in the shoulder the second in the thigh...</strong></p><p><strong><span>������</span></strong>The Chinese border guard stopped firing - she was dead snared in the wire that had ended her dash for freedom. The Hong Kong police could collect her body in the morning.</p><p>The murderous old men who clung to power in Peking would never know how close she had come to unmasking their prize spymaster in the West. The elusive Scorpion - who has penetrated the nerve centre of the Trident submarines they fear so much because they still have no defence against them.</p><p>And now Scorpion has also penetrated the seething opposition that threatens to destroy the last and greatest Communist empire . . .</p><p><em>The Year of the Scorpion</em> is Michael Hartland's finest achievement - an explosive thriller packed with action courage love and betrayal.</p>