A review by omnibozo22
The Chinaman by Stephen Leather

5.0

This was what I've come to recognize as Leather's standard approach to a thriller. Multiple interesting storylines that slowly converge. This was his first in a three novel series. I hadn't checked that out before reading the third one, but went back and got caught up. Only one chapter in I realized that I had seen the film version of this, the more polite "The Foreigner." Aging Jackie Chan held back on the mostly comic fighting moves employed in his earlier films, to play a straight on determined guy. Since I'd seen the film, I was easily able to speed read the rest of the book, even though lots of Leather's side stories were ignored, of course.