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Sinkiang Executive Review"The Sinkiang Executive", Elleston Trevor's eighth installment of Quiller, is an oddly confounding amalgam that surrealy catches our flawed protagonist in a state of moral ambiguity. Then, for a hundred pages in the middle, it misuses the momentum of that premise simply as an excuse to indulge in an outlandish aeronautical fantasy. In what becomes the book's seemingly-abbreviated third portion, Quiller's actual mission may ultimately be worth holding out for if only for the conflict that arises over what the Bureau forces him into. The eventual "plot" of that mission though seems a little too simple, a little too obvious. Likewise, Kirinski's repetitious dialogue at the end is quite silly. Nonetheless, the climax remains a gripping read.
Kirinski does make a unique and compelling villain, who is himself flawed and driven by the same dark motivations that Quiller has. Kirinski becomes a ruthless, formidable enemy whom the hero can ultimately identify with. "The reasons why we go into this trade are varied and we never talk about it because it's always personal...and we don't question even ourselves...because we don't want to come up with an answer we can't live with. I'd put Kirinski down as a psychopath. That is the type I know best, and for good reason." (183) After feeling satisfaction for having murdered a Soviet agent on a train full of witnesses, Quiller appears to be losing control. Likewise, his paltry justification for having done so seems to be an attempt to try and absolve guilt over his own responsibility in the death of a female friend. (In terms of continuity, Trevor states this as being Quiller's sixteenth mission. Apparently not all of them warranted full accounts.) The situation creates a compelling tension that moves to further erode the long-waning trust between Quiller and his Bureau.
Trevor works hard to add credibility in the minute details of Quiller's MiG 28D Finback training and insertion. Unfortunately, the concept of speed training an intelligence agent to be a jet fighter pilot seems to ill fit the Quiller character. There would be hundreds of trained pilots in both the US Air Force and the RAF with more experience for such an aerial reconnaissance mission. The concept seems flawed and all the details add up to little more than tedium. The fact that Ferris shows up by a normal airline flight and later dismisses the aerial photography as a mere "ticket" to the actual mission makes the idea seem all the more pointless. The scenario is often too reminiscent of the Craig Thomas novel "Firefox" (which was published the previous year). Another thing never alluded to is Quiller's ability to speak Russian perfectly and in a dialect that never arouses suspicion from the natives. Bond or Bourne could get away with it, but one of Quiller's advantages has always been its realism. "The Sinkiang Executive" is too often a conflict that pits realistic insight against unbelievable flights of fancy.Sinkiang Executive Overview

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