Night Heron - Tapa dura

The best British spy novel debut in years (Jake Kerridge The Telegraph)

An intriguing, skilful and taut novel...elegantly plotted and with a piercing eye for detail (Daily Mail)

Debut of the month is Adam Brookes's accomplished Night Heron (The Sunday Times)

The BBC's former China correspondent joins the ranks of John le Carré and Frederick Forsyth with a laser-sharp Beijing spy thriller . . . Brookes arrives a full formed talent, with a complete mastery of the genre (Daily Express)

Night Heron reeks with verisimilitude in its settings and atmosphere, and is accompanied by a cleverly plotted action-filled story of Anglo-Chinese espionage (The Times)

Superior espionage (The Sun)

A page turner that takes the reader from China's far west to the streets of the fascinating Chinese capital, pulsing with power and danger (New York Times)

An outstanding first novel (Washington Post)

The pace is frenetic and Brookes does a wonderful job with both the high-tech world of cyber intelligence and survival on Beijing's gritty, smog-smothered streets. Highly recommended. (The Bookseller)

Brookes, a correspondent for BBC News in Washington, D.C., who was formerly based in China, takes readers deep inside the culture and daily routines of that country in his outstanding fiction debut . . . Good chase scenes and tense dialogue, coupled with a convincing picture of what actually happens in the corridors of power, make Brookes a thriller writer to watch. (Publishers Weekly)