Night Heron Lib/E

A riveting espionage novel hailed as a “must-listen thriller of the year” by NPR and narrated by an Emmy Award–nominated actor! After a former British spy known as Peanut escapes from a Chinese labor camp, he reaches out to journalist Philip Mangan for help. “One of the best and most compulsively readable spy fiction debuts in years” (Kirkus Reviews starred review).

A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of northwest China. Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British; now Peanut must disappear on Beijing's surveillance-blanketed streets. Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan, offering military secrets in return for extraction. But the secrets prove more valuable than Peanut or Mangan could ever have known-and not only to the British.