The Guardian’s own Jonathan Freedland has written five effective, bestselling thrillers under the nom de plume Sam Bourne. Like its predecessors, the first under his own name inhabits a comfortable middle ground between Dan Brown and Robert Harris, and fans of arrestingly Orwellian opening sentences will enjoy the first line: “It was the last day of January and the New Year was approaching.”
Freedland means the Chinese New Year: in The Third Woman the US is in total economic (and, increasingly, cultural) thrall to China. To ensure interest payments are made on America’s debts, China has established a military presence, building garrisons at key ports along the west coast. The time frame is hazy, but we seem to be around 10 to 15 years into this occupation. Pollution is out of control but the rioting that occurred early on has given way to grudging tolerance, and in some spheres assimilation has been cordial.
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