Night Heron

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Tell them, the night heron is hunting 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 finds beijing transformed and crawling with danger - he must quickly disappear on its surveillance-blanketed streets or face death. Desperate and ruthless, peanut reaches out to his one-time mi6 paymasters via journalist philip mangan, offering secrets in return for his life. Mangan is dragged into a deeper and deeper whirlpool of lies, as the secrets prove more valuable than he or peanut could ever have known and not only to the british. ISBN:9780751561616