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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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Adam Brookes is a 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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