Spy Games - Hardcover

"Night Heron" is a fascinating portrait of the dangerous complexities of spying in a restricted country, the competing agendas driving international intelligence, and China's startlingly varied social realities.A must-read for fans of espionage and smart global fiction in general. ""Booklist "(starred review) on" Night Heron """

""Night Heron" is a wonderfully cinematic novel -- I felt myself visually transported into every scene, watching the action unfold -- that also immersed me in the sounds and smells and feel of China, all the while telling a rich, complex espionage story. A remarkable accomplishment." "Chris Pavone, author of international bestseller "The Expats "on" Night Heron """

"The must-read thriller of the year." ""NPR Books "on" Night Heron """

"A rich, can't-put-it-down thriller... terrific." "Joseph Kanon on "Spy Games"""

"A smarter or more exciting mystery likely won't be released this year."--Kirkus (starred review) on Spy Games

"[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

"Brookes shows that his impressive debut was no fluke, and readers will look forward to Mangan's next adventure."--Publishers Weekly on Spy Games

"A rich, can't-put-it-down thriller... terrific."--Joseph Kanon on Spy Games

"The must-read thriller of the year."--NPR Books on Night Heron

"One of the best and most compulsively readable spy-fiction debuts in years."--Kirkus on Night Heron

A sequel to Night Heron finds journalist Philip Mangan embroiled in a life-threatening conspiracy involving local unrest in East Africa and his failures in Beijing.