
Tell them the Night Heron is hunting A lone man escapes a labour camp in the dead of night fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China Two decades earlier he was a spy for the British Now he finds Beijing transformed & crawling with danger
- the fugitive must quickly disappear on its surveillance-blanketed streets or face death Desperate & ruthless he reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via journalist Philip Mangan offering secrets in return for his life Mangan is dragged into a deeper & deeper whirlpool of lies as the secrets prove more valuable than either of them could ever have known & not only to the British