Night heron
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316399838 (hardcover) :
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Physical Description:
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387 p. ; 25 cm. - Edition: First US Edition: May 2014.
- Publisher: New York : Redhook, 2014.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Sphere."--T.p. verso. |
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Subject: | Espionage -- Fiction China -- Fiction |
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Summary:
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 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 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.