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    Tibetan Cross

    By Mike Bond

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    An American climber in the Himalayas stumbles on a shipment of backpack nuclear
    weapons headed into Tibet for use against China. Pursued by spy agencies and other killers
    across Asia, North Africa, Europe and the United States, he is captured then rescued by a
    beautiful young woman with whom he forms a deadly liaison. They escape, are captured and
    escape again, death always at their heels. A terrifying international manhunt and stunning
    love story, Tibetan Cross was a European best-seller.



    CRITICAL PRAISE for TIBETAN CROSS:

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    “Intense and unforgettable.” FORT LAUDERDALE SUN-SENTINEL

    “Grips the reader from the very first chapter until the climactic ending.” UPI

    “Almost impossible to put down.” I LOVE A MYSTERY

    “A tautly written study of one man’s descent into living hell.” SPOKANE CHRONICLE

    RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH “Murderous intensity.”

    “A chilling story of escape and pursuit.” TACOMA NEWS-TRIBUNE

    “An astonishing thriller.” SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

    “Grips the reader from the opening chapter and never lets go.” MIAMI HERALD

    AUTHOR NOTE:

    My books are based largely on my own experiences, often in remote, dangerous, and war-torn situations. I try to place readers in the midst of these experiences, so they can feel the truth of them and integrate them into their own memories and their own understanding of the joys, perils, and mysteries of life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMandevilla Press
    Release dateOct 4, 2014
    ISBN9781627040136
    Author

    Mike Bond

    Called "the master of the existential thriller" (BBC), "one of America's best thriller writers" (Culture Buzz) and "one of the 21st century's most exciting authors" (Washington Times), Mike Bond is the author of eight best-selling novels, a war and human rights journalist, ecologist, and award-winning poet. Based on his own experiences in many dangerous and war-torn regions of the world, his novels portray the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister conspiracies of dictators, corporations and politicians, and the beauty of the vanishing natural world.

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    • 3/5
      This was a book read while I was vacationing and although not the most uplifting of subjects, I found it interesting and a quick read. Unfortunately, the subject of evading an international man hunt conducted by the clandestine services of multiple nations is not uplifting as it apparently results in multiple deaths, and lots of pain for the endeavor. I really enjoyed the author's descriptive language used to convey the nature of the location of the plot action, whether the remote Himalayan reaches or overpopulated city slums his writing lets you see the location. As a result I would recommend this book to others, who I hope would enjoy it as much as I.
    • 2/5
      Mission Impossible on steroids.I have not read a Mike Bond book before and I am not rushing out to find any others. This book races headlong into new scenes and situations and is exhausting. I did not like the feeling.I received a review copy of "Tibetan Cross" by Mike Bond (Mandevilla) through NetGalley.com.
    • 2/5
      I was persuaded to try reading this book from all the good reviews but to be honest, it was not my cup of tea. I do like action/political thrillers from time to time but I found the writing a bit choppy and it made me keep putting the book down. I think that though I was not enthralled by the book others will probably enjoy the book. I was given this book to read in exchange for an honest review by Netgalley.
    • 1/5
      **WARNING - CONTAINS SPOILERS**

      Really struggled with this one and couldn’t finish it.

      Sam Cohen and his friends Paul and Alex are hired as guides to take two Americans across the Himalayas to do something, I am not sure what. When they meet up with a group of traders the Americans insist of travelling along with them. They soon learn they are smuggling arms and are already known to the two Americans. When they discover that not only guns but parts that make a nuclear bomb is also amongst the load, Alex is shot and killed, Sam and Paul split and run. Cohen needs to tell someone because guns are one thing but a nuclear bomb is quite another, but on reaching Katmandu it appears that one of the Americans has made it there first and is in the US Embassy.

      Cohen is the most stupidest guy who ever had the misfortune to be in charge of his own destiny. He somehow fails to think knowing that he is being chased, that he will not be followed to the family of his friends, and sure enough they are killed and he curses himself for leading them there. This does not happen once but time again. Cohen appears to be in some sort of drug induced psychotic episode for much of this book with drugs and graphic sex, there was a total lack of sensibility for me. The story is being told as it is in Cohen’s head, monosyllabic and stilted which did not work for me. In fact I have no real idea what was going on in the book as I found it too difficult to follow.

      Come on, where is the plausibility in a man managing to run miles (30!) with a knee cut through to the bone, a deep cut down his neck and along his shoulder; he also climbs rock faces and swims with a dislocated shoulder, having put it back his self several times. Is beaten up more than once, tortured with electrodes and still manages to keep running.

      For someone who is about to be killed he fails to take it seriously enough not to fall in love and have graphic sex with every woman he meets which feels somewhat self indulgent as it adds nothing to the story. The worst part of this book is that it includes a young girl in his sexual exploits in a way that is thoroughly distasteful. It would be one thing to describe pedophilia in way that shows disgust, but quite another to describe it as ‘yet another’ sexual exploit.

      I could not like any of the characters very much apart from the elderly guy in the mountains. Cohen appears to be an idiot, the bad guys out of some cartoon, and the women, well, they are pure fantasy of men, not a real character amongst them.

      I could not follow the plot very well and realised that this was partly down to the fact that the kindle edition that was sent me was not formatted as such. This meant that paragraphs were not distinct running all parts of the plot into one making no sense at all. I am surprised that such little care has been taken with this.
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      Many thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book via NetGalley in return for an honest review
    • 2/5
      Ex -military buddies agree to help guide a photographic expedition into Tibet but discover it is really a CIA weapons smuggling venture with a potential nuclear war head. Thereafter the characters run for their lives through goat trails, bawdy houses, stinking ship holds and otherwise perilous paths. End the end the bad guys are eliminated and the final survivor rides off into the Arizona sunset with his love-hate girlfriend. The novel has all the gore, sexual encounters, and mayhem one would expect but it is loosely put together as if the writer was in a great hurry to hurry or escape from his own danger. It doesn’t live up to the hype.I was provided with an electronic copy in return for an honest review.