The Spy's Daughter

by Adam Brookes

Overview

A gifted teenager discovers her parents' unnerving plan for her future in this "riveting and accomplished" international spy thriller (The Sunday Times, UK).
Meet Pearl Tao: an American girl with a lethal secret. She longs for the life of a normal American teenager in the Washington DC suburbs. But she is different.
Her gift for mathematics means overprotective parents and college sponsorship from a secretive technology corporation. And now, aged nineteen, she is beginning to understand what her parents intend for her. The terrifying role she is to play.
Her only hope of escape lies with two sidelined and discredited spies: Trish Patterson and Philip Mangan. Finding out the truth about Pearl will be the biggest mission they'll ever undertake.
"Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal." —Charles Cumming

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316503501
Publisher:	Redhook
Publication date:	09/24/2024
Sold by:	OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	840
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Adam Brookes was for many years a journalist and foreign correspondent for BBC News. He reported from China, Indonesia, the US and many other countries, Iraq and Afghanistan among them. His debut novel, Night Heron, was nominated for the 2014 CWA John Creasey Dagger and appeared on best of the year lists in the TLS, Kirkus and NPR; its follow-up Spy Games was nominated for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. The Spy's Daughter is his third novel. He lives with his family in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Editorial Reviews

"Riveting and accomplished."—The Sunday Times (UK)

"A tense spy thriller of the highest order."—Irish Independent

"Another top bit of work from a man who's inching further ahead in the spy thriller stakes."—Sunday Sport (UK)

"The plot is thick with intrigue and espionage and is as good a spy novel as any you will read."—Chris High

"This would make a superb television spy drama. I really didn't want it to end. A terrific heart-thumping spy thriller."—Northern Crime Reviews

"Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal."—Charles Cumming on Spy Games

"Pulsing with power and danger."—New York Times on Night Heron

"A smarter or more exciting mystery likely won't be released this year."—Kirkus (starred review) on Spy Games

"The must-read thriller of the year."—NPR Books on Night Heron

"Brookes shows that his impressive debut was no fluke, and readers will look forward to Mangan's next adventure."—Publishers Weekly on Spy Games

"[Adam Brookes] does an excellent job of keeping the action moving and the tension high, making Spy Games a difficult book to put down.... Brookes has separated himself from the pack: I've read a lot of very good China books by excellent journalists, but I've never before stayed up far too late on a work night to finish one, unwilling to go to sleep until I knew how it ended."—Los Angeles Review of Books on Spy Games

"A classic spy thriller packed with tension and detail, brilliantly paced."—Peter James on Night Heron

"A rich, can't-put-it-down thriller... terrific."—Joseph Kanon on Spy Games

"Outstanding."—Washington Post on Night Heron

"One of the best and most compulsively readable spy-fiction debuts in years."—Kirkus on Night Heron

From the Publisher

★ 2017-11-14
Having abandoned people he cared about and compromised his humanity since becoming a spy, British journalist Philip Mangan finds a chance to redeem himself when he meets a Chinese-American teenager targeted by Beijing for her genius in the field of artificial intelligence.Mangan crosses paths with the teen, Pearl Tao, in Suriname. He has traveled to the South American country from Indonesia in an attempt to hide from his MI6 superiors in London. Pearl's parents, who, unbeknownst to her, are Chinese spies, told her they were going to Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname, on vacation. But they are there to make contact with Chinese sources to whom they have promised to deliver Pearl's research. Roughly treated by her untrustworthy, panicky father, she begins to fear for her well-being. Mangan first sees Pearl and her parents in the company of a local lawyer he suspects of having ties to Chinese military intelligence. After chatting with the girl, Mangan instinctively knows she needs his help. But first, he needs to convince her that he's on her side. With the murder—could it have been by MI6?—of an American agent specializing in Chinese affairs and the fatal poisoning of his wife, the plot thickens. Brookes (Spy Games, 2015, etc.) writes in his acknowledgments that this is the final chapter for Mangan, his manipulative London boss Val Hobko, and his troubled handler and one-time lover, Trish Patterson. If so, they'll be sorely missed. In the tradition of Graham Greene, the book is a work of deep moral reckoning and a gripping thriller. As affecting as the story is, the dominant emotion it evokes is fear. Having been shot at, beaten to a pulp, imprisoned, and betrayed in Brookes' trilogy, Mangan has reason to shake in anticipation of the next shock to his system. That Brookes makes the darkest challenges his spy faces utterly believable is a testament to his skill as a novelist.Brookes' third and possibly final novel to feature Philip Mangan sends the beaten-down rogue spy out in high style while introducing a terrific new character in a teenager trapped in her own secretive life.

Kirkus Reviews