Night Heron - Rilegato

Brookes, Adam

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ISBN 10: 0316399833 ISBN 13: 9780316399838

Casa editrice: Orbit, 2014

Riassunto

Twenty years after he was caught as a British spy, Peanut escapes a labor camp in North-West China and seeks assistance from a crusading journalist in exchange for military secrets. 30,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"The must-read thriller of the year."―NPR Books

"One of the best and most compulsively readable spy-fiction debuts in years."―Kirkus

"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

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)

"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. Brookes uses multiple narrators -- the spy, the engineer, the journalist, the agent, the boss -- whose conflicting alliances tell the real story."―Library Journal

"Brookes, a correspondent for BBC News in Washington, DC, 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 (starred review)

L'autore:

Adam Brookes has been a foreign correspondent for many years, reporting for the BBC from China, Indonesia, and the United States. Assignments also took him to Afganistan, Iraq, Mongolia, North Korea, and numerous other countries around the globe.

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• Editore: Orbit
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0316399833
• ISBN 13: 9780316399838
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 387