If you like action plots with a heavy dose of emotion, if you can relate to more than one side, then this is a novel (and movie) you will probably enjoy.more It tugged at my heartstrings and caused a tear or two to fall.
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This book and movie was filled with heartache, despair, anger and revenge. It ended quite differently than the movie and I would be hard pressed to say one was better than the other. While the book started off slow it picked up after the first quarter and kept a brisk pace. Obviously a book has more opportunity for detail than does a movie of 90 to 120 minutes and Mr. (This is not a spoiler for either the book or the movie, it's very early on in both.) Chan showed what a very good actor his which can be detailed in one scene him holding the lifeless body of his daughter who had just been killed in an IRA terrorist bomb attack in London. I highly recommend the movie, staring Jackie Chan in a pure drama/action role without his usual wisecracks or silliness that frankly I enjoy. I saw the movie that was based on this book and while they generally followed the same plot the telling of the stories was much different. I just finished the book, literally less than an hour ago and I have no idea who the hell Mike Cramer is. I highly recommend the movie, staring Jackie Chan in a pure drama/action role without his usual wisecracks or silliness that frankl Goodreads has this book listed as The Chinaman (Mike Cramer #1). Goodreads has this book listed as The Chinaman (Mike Cramer #1). His jokes, testosterone and muscle bound attitude is therefore very limited and for that I am eternally grateful because the real hero in the book is Nguyen Ngoc Minh.a simple man living a quiet life when everything he knows and loves is destroyed and this sets him off on a journey with just one question.why?. This book is actually advertised as the first in the Mike “joker” Cramer series.which is a bit of a joke in itself as our very own muscle bound SAS hero only appears as the story concludes. We follow Nguyen on his sad quest knowing that whatever the outcome the journey will be bloody and violent and yet hoping that some kind of justice will prevail. He wants revenge for the senseless murder of his family and uses his battle skills and training to single handedly start a one man war against the IRA.
We quickly learn that this seemingly mild-mannered owner of a Chinese restaurant is in fact a trained and lethal killer from a long forgotten war in the killing fields of Vietnam. It certainly has an explosive (literally) start with the brutal death of the wife and daughter of a quietly spoken man called Nguyen Ngoc Minh. He wants revenge I read this book on first publication in the early 90’s and I enjoyed but I must admit on this second reading it felt somewhat dated if not dull and formulaic. I read this book on first publication in the early 90’s and I enjoyed but I must admit on this second reading it felt somewhat dated if not dull and formulaic. Which was when the Chinaman, denied justice, decided on revenge.and went back to war.more Then 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.
Until the day his wife and youngest daughter were murdered by an IRA bomb. Quiet, hard-working and unassuming, he was building up his South London take-away business. He had watched helpless when his two eldest daughters had been raped and killed by Thai pirates. Jungle-skilled, silent and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. Until the day his wife and yo The "Chinaman" understood death.
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