Night Heron
- Author Adam Brookes
- Narrator Jason Isaacs
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Run Time 10 hours and 42 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Espionage and spy thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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An intriguing, skilful and taut novel…elegantly plotted and with a piercing eye for detail
Daily Mail -
Debut of the month is Adam Brookes’s accomplished Night Heron
The Sunday Times -
Brookes arrives as a fully formed talent, with a complete mastery of the genre
Daily Express -
Night Heron reeks with verisimilitude in its settings and atmosphere, and is accompanied by a cleverly plotted action-filled story of Anglo-Chinese espionage
The Times -
The pace is frenetic and Brookes does a wonderful job with both the high-tech world of cyber intelligence and survival on Beijing’s gritty, smog-smothered streets. Highly recommended.
The Bookseller -
Brookes, a correspondent for BBC News in Washington, D.C., who was formerly based in China, takes readers deep inside the culture and daily routines of that country in his outstanding fiction debut . . . Good chase scenes and tense dialogue, coupled with a convincing picture of what actually happens in the corridors of power, make Brookes a thriller writer to watch.
Publishers Weekly
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