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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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Night Heron is a wonderfully cinematic novel-I felt myself visually transported into every scene, watching the action unfold-that also immersed me in the sounds and smells and feel of China, all the while telling a rich, complex espionage story. A remarkable accomplishment. -- Chris Pavone, author of international bestseller The Expats Fans of the international espionage genre will inhale this fast tale in a few suspenseful breaths. -- Library Journal Outstanding fiction debut...Brookes [is] a thriller writer to watch. -- Publishers Weekly Against all odds, Prisoner 5995-a former professor wrongly convicted of murder-escapes a high security Chinese facility after twenty torturous years. Having concocted a plan to flee China and establish a new identity, he finds an unlikely ally in Mangan, a veteran British journalist based in Beijing...Brookes, a one-time China correspondent for the BBC, knows this turf exceedingly well and translates that knowledge into a novel that is as strikingly different as it is thrilling...One of the best and most compulsively readable spy-fiction debuts in years. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Night Heron is a fascinating portrait of the dangerous complexities of spying in a restricted country, the competing agendas driving international intelligence, and China's startlingly varied social realities. A must-read for fans of espionage and smart global fiction in general. -- Booklist (starred review)

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Adam Brookes, author of acclaimed novels, is a former correspondent for BBC News in Washington, DC, and was formerly the BBC's China correspondent. He has reported on assignment from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, North Korea, Mongolia, and many other countries. Jason Isaacs is an English actor who discovered his love for the craft at Bristol University, directing and acting in more than twenty plays at school and at the popular Edinburgh Festival. He has since moved on to a career mostly in film and television and is best known for his role as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.

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