The Jade Conspiracy

This story is based on events that occurred just prior to the expiry of the 99 year lease on Hong Kong in June 1997.Seven international financiers attend meeting in Singapore. The subject on the agenda is a conspiracy to gain overall control of Hong Kong leading to a coup to overthrow the Communist Government of the Peoples Republic of China. When an armoured security van hold up in England coincides with the murder of a prominent financier in Hong Kong, the Hi-jack of a Container Ship in the Mediterranean by Terrorists, who have nuclear missiles aboard, and the theft of several billions in English Pounds, American Dollars and French Francs, The MI6, CIA, have to catch an ex-KGB official and an activated sleeper agent to find out. The main characters, an MI6 agent Lee Chantry and a CIA agent, Andy Carter, are in a race against time when they uncover detailed information exposing a multi billion pound bank fraud that leads them halfway round the World to prevent the conspiracy being used to undermine the Chinese Government and re-instate the old Communist USSR with an old style Russian hardliner as Head of State Leaving an undercover member of the Royal Marine Special Boat Service to defeat the ship's hi-jackers, the two agents travel halfway round the World and enlist the help of a Family of Hong Kong Chinese Triads to follow the Russian Agents deep inside China. Can a Royal Marine Special Boat Service section, an M16 agent and a CIA agent work together to thwart the Conspiracy and prevent the conspirators plunging the World into a Nuclear War?