Night Heron
Author: Adam Brookes
Tell them, the Night Heron is hunting …A lone man 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 he finds Beijing transformed and crawling with danger – the fugitive must quickly disappear on its surveillance-blanketed streets or face death. Desperate and ruthless, h….Read More
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