The thrilling third novel from multi-award-nominated author Adam Brookes is paranoid, tense spy fiction at its very finest.
Meet Pearl Tao: an American girl with a lethal secret.
Pearl longs for the life of a normal American teenager: summers at the pool, friends, backyard barbecues in the Washington DC suburbs. But she is different.
Her gift for mathematics means overprotective parents and college sponsorship from a secretive technology corporation. And now, aged nineteen, she is beginning to understand what her parents intend for her. The terrifying role she is to play.
Her only hope of escape lies with two sidelined and discredited spies: Trish Patterson and Philip Mangan. Finding out the truth about Pearl will be the biggest mission they'll ever undertake.
"Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal." -- Charles Cumming
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"[Adam Brookes] does an excellent job of keeping the action moving and the tension high, making Spy Games a difficult book to put down.... Brookes has separated himself from the pack: I've read a lot of very good China books by excellent journalists, but I've never before stayed up far too late on a work night to finish one, unwilling to go to sleep until I knew how it ended."
— Los Angeles Review of Books on Spy Games
The plot is thick with intrigue and espionage and is as good a spy novel as any you will read.
— Chris HighRiveting and accomplished.
— The Sunday Times (UK)A tense spy thriller of the highest order.
— Irish IndependentAnother top bit of work from a man who's inching further ahead in the spy thriller stakes.
— Sunday Sport (UK)This would make a superb television spy drama. I really didn't want it to end. A terrific heart-thumping spy thriller.
— Northern Crime ReviewsAuthentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal.
— Charles Cumming on Spy GamesPulsing with power and danger.
— New York Times on Night HeronA smarter or more exciting mystery likely won't be released this year.
— Kirkus (starred review) on Spy GamesThe must-read thriller of the year.
— NPR Books on Night HeronBrookes shows that his impressive debut was no fluke, and readers will look forward to Mangan's next adventure.
— Publishers Weekly on Spy GamesA classic spy thriller packed with tension and detail, brilliantly paced.
— Peter James on Night HeronA rich, can't-put-it-down thriller... terrific.
— Joseph Kanon on Spy GamesOutstanding.
— Washington Post on Night HeronOne of the best and most compulsively readable spy-fiction debuts in years.
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Adam Brookes has been a journalist and foreign correspondent for BBC News. He reported from China, Indonesia, the US and many other countries, Iraq and Afghanistan among them. His debut novel, Night Heron, was nominated for the 2014 CWA John Creasey Dagger award and appeared on the best books of the year lists of the London Times Literary Supplement, Kirkus Reviews, and NPR. Its follow-up, Spy Games, was nominated for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.
Colin Mace is an actor recently seen in the National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors. He starred in the critically acclaimed drama The Night Watch for the BBC, Shirley for BBC2, as well as several episodes of Eastenders. His theater credits include “Ted Narracott” in War Horse at the National Theatre and West End, as well as Cash at WYP, and The 39 Steps and The Odysee at the Lyric Hammersmith. Other television credits includes Peep Show, Abolition, The Bill, Down to Earth, and The Project.