After being incarcerated in a remote Chinese labor camp for
nearly 20 years, convicted spy Li Huasheng (aka Peanut)
makes a harrowing escape and long journey to Beijing.
Having sold military secrets to the British in the past,
Peanut decides to resume his spying by forcing one of his
former accomplices, who did not get caught, into providing
the military secrets he needs to barter to get out of
China.
When Peanut approaches Philip Mangan, believing he works
for the British government, his plan takes an unexpected
turn. Mangan, who's actually a freelance British
journalist, is effectively recruited by his country's
network of spies to act as the go-between with Peanut to
complete the deal. However, Peanut is a tough one to work
with as he deals with the confusing changes he encounters
and seeing China rebuilt into a global power over the past
20 years. The situation turns tense as Peanut and Mangan
flee for their lives with both sides in hot pursuit of the
software key that provides access to China's national
security secrets.
NIGHT HERON by debut author Adam Brookes tells a
compelling espionage thriller adroitly textured with a rich
sense of place and vivid characterizations. The gripping
action moves along at breakneck speed in an intense
plotline.
Set in China, and ripped from today's headlines, comes a
pulse-pounding debut that reinvents the spy thriller for
the 21st century.
A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in the dead of
night, fleeing across the winter desert of northwest China.
Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British; now
Peanut must disappear on Beijing's surveillance-blanketed
streets. Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to his one-
time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan,
offering military secrets in return for extraction.
But the secrets prove more valuable than Peanut or Mangan
could ever have known...and not only to the British.
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