Fearing for his life, journalist Philip Mangan has gone into hiding from the Chinese agents who have identified him as British spy. His reputation and life are in tatters.

But when he is caught in a terrorist attack in East Africa and a shadowy Chinese figure approaches him in the dead of night with information on the origins of the attack, Mangan is suddenly back in the eye of the storm.

Meanwhile, thousands of miles away on a humid Hong Kong night, a key MI6 source is murdered minutes after meeting spy Trish Patterson. From Washington, DC to the hallowed halls of Oxford University and dusty African streets, a sinister power is stirring which will use Mangan and Patterson as its pawns - if they survive.

Deeply steeped in tension and paranoia, Spy Games is Adam Brookes' follow-up to his award-nominated debut Night Heron and a remarkable, groundbreaking spy thriller.

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Listening Length	13 hours and 10 minutes
Author	Adam Brookes
Narrator	Richard Coyle
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	09 July 2015
Publisher	Hachette Audio UK
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00ZVF90TQ
Best Sellers Rank	89,941 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 879 in Espionage Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) 3,666 in Literary Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 3,854 in Espionage Thrillers (Books)

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Manda Scott

Adam Brookes is the new Le Carré. A wonderful, thrilling, inspiring read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2015

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Adam Brookes is the new Le Carré - without question this is the best modern spy novel I have ever read - and I thought NIGHT HERON, his debut, had that spot. In many ways, it maintains it because the two run seamlessly together, taking the primary characters and moving them on in ways that feel utterly authentic. That's one of the strengths of this book: the characterisation is concise, but real, Philip Mangan, Trish Patterson, Rocky Shi, Peanut… they are all build strand by strand into complex, vulnerable people. The settings, too, are entirely authentic, and the plot… so many modern writers rely on acronyms and weapon stats to create authenticity, when what Brookes does is to create a sense of having explored this world to its self-serving, duplicitous depths. The action is genuinely thrilling and the premise horribly plausible. Read this. It's perfect.

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tpryan

Great follow up to Night Heron

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 August 2018

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Brookes follows up Night Heton with another belter. This not an all action, pile up the bodies thriller (thankfully). This is much more nuanced.

Set somewhat unusually in Ethiopia, Mangan is back to freelancing as a journalist but still feeling the pull of his recent exposure to the world of espionage. But an approach begins to reveal something of the Chinese involvement in Africa and the factions and tension behind it. Drawn ever further in, Mangan is back in the pay of VX.

What I like about this series so far is its authenticity and contemporary feel. This is pretty much what being an agent and running an agent must be like. Can't think of any other writer who captures that so well.

There's a twist at the end that suggests the setting for the third instalment. But I hope this series runs and runs.

Malcolm R

The spy thriller is alive and well

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 May 2018

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After a whiz but no bang beginning it is a slow start as there are many strands to elucidate but they all come together in a very whiz-bang ending with a little twist at the end. Better than the first as a thriller but not as claustrophobic though it couldn’t be as we go from Washington to Hong Kong to Addis Ababa to Thailand to Myanmar interspersed with episodes in London and Oxford. An initial plot to run an agent in China which goes to hell in a handcart. Roll on the third episode.

Top of its genre.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 September 2017

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Intriguing lead characters, beguiling locations, a plausible premise to the plot and the ring of authenticity about the 'tradecraft'. I began the trilogy here, attracted by the setting, and immediately read the first and third instalments. A really satisfying trio of books, as good as this genre gets, in my opinion.

Roger Vincent

A thrilling read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 May 2016

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A superb thriller which came highly recommended through a newspaper review and it didn't disappoint. Investigative journalism combining the secret service and a China setting, that gives it a contemporary feel, made for a quality read. If you like John Le Carre then you'll like this, but I suggest you first read Adam Brookes's début novel, Night Heron,to familiarise yourself with the back-stories of the main characters.

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