Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal'Charles CummingIn many ways, Pearl Tao was a typical American child. She spent summer days at the pool, played softball and lingered at suburban barbecues in her home city of...

The 2nd book in the spy thriller trilogy which began with "Night Heron". Gives readers an insight into the dangerous world of international espionage through the eyes of journalist Philip Mangen.

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...

'The kind of history deserving of a cinematic blockbuster' Julia Lovell, Literary Review'[A] gripping and meticulously researched account of an epic effort to transport delicate scrolls, paintings and carvings thousands of miles under...

Gefangener 5995 schafft es, aus einem chinesischen Straflager auszubrechen, wo er als dissidenter Intellektueller fast zwanzig Jahre weggesperrt war. Auf seiner Flucht versucht er, seine alten Kontakte zum britischen MI6 wiederzubeleben....