Night heron / Adam Brookes.
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TextPublisher: London : Sphere, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 387 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780751552492; 9780751552485Subject(s): Intelligence officers -- Fiction | Intelligence officers -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Journalists -- Fiction | Defense information, Classified -- Fiction | Beijing (China) -- FictionGenre/Form: Spy fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: Tell them, the Night Heron is hunting... A lone man escapes a labour camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China. Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British. Now he finds Beijing transformed and crawling with danger - the fugitive must quickly disappear on its surveillance-blanketed streets or face death. Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via journalist Philip Mangan, offering secrets in return for his life. Mangan is dragged into a deeper and deeper whirlpool of lies, as the secrets prove more valuable than either of them could ever have known... and not only to the British.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111070834393 |
"A Chinese spy. A British journalist. And a whole nation hunting them."--Cover.
Tell them, the Night Heron is hunting... A lone man escapes a labour camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China. Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British. Now he finds Beijing transformed and crawling with danger - the fugitive must quickly disappear on its surveillance-blanketed streets or face death. Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via journalist Philip Mangan, offering secrets in return for his life. Mangan is dragged into a deeper and deeper whirlpool of lies, as the secrets prove more valuable than either of them could ever have known... and not only to the British.
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