Night Heron

Adam Brookes

Hachette UK

2014

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-13: 9781405528573

Inglês

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 and crawling with danger - the fugitive must quickly disappear on its surveillance-blanketed streets or face death. Desperate and 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 and deeper whirlpool of lies, as the secrets prove more valuable than either of them could ever have known... and not only to the British.

Resenhas (1)

3.5 (Bom)

Não é Le Carre

Boa estória, com uma ou duas barrigas.
O background chinês é interessante com a China assumindo papel de vilão principal nos temas de espionagem.
O começo do livro é a melhor parte, depois continua bom, mas nem tanto.
Mas a comparação - na capa - com Le Carré - é injusta. E talvez isso explique a sensação de que o livro deveria ser melhor.