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Book Review By Nick Warren
By Stealth by Colin Forbes

A thrilling action-adventure featuring England's finest spies Tweed, Paula Grey and Bob Newman. In this classic Forbes suspenser, the Chinese are planning a massive silent invasion of the UK using the latest in military technology - stealth warships, with the aid of a renegade British Army brigadier. Tweed and colleagues race across Europe to prevent the invasion and uncover a secret as to who is helping the bad guys plan the invasion.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - Dry-cynical
Time/era of story:
Spying/Terrorism Thriller Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
descript. of violence and chases - 20 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 0 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 30 %
Search for technology?

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - 40's-50's

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status:
Eccentric: Yes
Motive of antagonist - power
The antagonists are: - Chinese

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - Switzerland - England/UK - France - Germany - Scandinavia
Ice Caps/Sea? Yes
Where? - Ocean
Forest? Yes
Water? Yes
Water: - pleasure/love boat - sail boat - warship - lost at sea - scuba under - drowning
Air? Yes
Air: - passenger plane
Island? Yes
Island: - on vacation
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - sinister, like an X-Files Gomer Pyle
Misc setting - resort/hotel - moving train - fort/military installation - scientific labs - fancy mansion

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
A lot of techno jargon? Yes
Kind of jargon? - military technology
Unusual forms of death - asphyxiation - poisoning - dropped from large heights - frying (electrocuted) - run over - drowned - perforation--bullets - perforation--swords/knives - blunt clubbing (like seals)
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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