At Last – A Decent China-set Spy Thriller

A quick plug for Adam Brookes’s new contemporary Beijing-set spy thriller Night Heron which really delivers. I think most China Hands have been somewhat repeatedly disappointed by the recent crop of PRC-set thrillers with none quite hitting the mark, but Brookes, it appears, has pulled it off. Anyway, I’ve reviewed in more detail over at the Los Angeles Review of Books here. I very much doubt anyone with a taste for spy literature and with a good knowledge of China and Beijing would be disappointed by this one.