Spy Games

"Adam Brookes is quickly becoming a first-rate author of international thrillers. The deft pacing of his second novel, Spy Games, kept me reading every free moment, including workday lunches and cab rides home. What separates Brookes from many others in the genre is that he knows his subject, China, intimately. (Full disclosure: The author and I were colleagues when he served as a BBC correspondent in Beijing in the 1990s.) Brookes has ripped the plot of Spy Games from the headlines of a real-life Communist Party power struggle and set it in London, Ethiopia, Hong Kong and a Chinese casino in the jungles of Myanmar. For an atmospheric tale of intrigue centered on the world’s rising superpower, Brookes is your man."