Books by Adam Brookes and Complete Book Reviews
Adam Brookes. Hachette/Redhook, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-39983-8
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. Li Huasheng (aka Peanut) has recently escaped from
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Adam Brookes. Hachette/Redhook, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-39990-6
Brookes’s intricately plotted sequel to 2014’s Night Heron finds Philip Mangan, foreign correspondent and part-time spy, in Ethiopia looking into a story about how the Chinese are influencing African politics. Shortly after he’s almost killed in a...
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Adam Brookes. Atria, $28.99 (348p) ISBN 978-1-982149-29-1
Journalist Brookes debuts with a novelistic account of Chinese curators’ largely successful efforts to save priceless antiquities first from Japanese bombs during WWII and then from potential looters during Mao Zedong’s Communist takeover. Led by Ma
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