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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 ofnorth-west China.Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British. Now Peanut finds Beijing transformed and crawling with danger - he mustquickly disappear on its surveillance-blanketed streets or face death. Desperate and ruthless, Peanut reaches out to his one-time MI6paymasters via journalist Philip Mangan, offering secrets in return for his life.Mangan is dragged into a deeper and deeper whirlpool of lies, asthe secrets prove more valuable than he or Peanut could ever have known... and not only to the British.
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 ofnorth-west China.Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British. Now Peanut finds Beijing transformed and crawling with danger - he mustquickly disappear on its surveillance-blanketed streets or face death. Desperate and ruthless, Peanut reaches out to his one-time MI6paymasters via journalist Philip Mangan, offering secrets in return for his life.Mangan is dragged into a deeper and deeper whirlpool of lies, asthe secrets prove more valuable than he or Peanut could... Read More