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The Foreigner: Previously published as The Chinaman
The Foreigner Previously published as The Chinaman Author:Stephen Leather Stephen Leather's BESTSELLING breakthrough thriller, previously published as THE CHINAMAN — **Now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan and Jackie Chan.**He 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... more » 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, denied justice, he decided on revenge. And went back to war.« less