Book description
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…
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I've been reading spy fiction for years, but until I came across this book, I had never read one set in China. The author immersed me in a previously unknown world, with characters and settings that kept me glued to the page. The writing reminds me of John LeCarre's novels: convoluted, yet plausible plot twists set against a background of tragedy. This book is the first in a trilogy. Fingers crossed that Brookes will expand the series.
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