by Adam Williams (Author)
Harry Airton, a Scottish fisherman, has China in his blood. A chance encounter with a spook during the Korean War gives him the opportunity to return to the land of his birth and serve his goverment at the same time. They hatch a long-term plan to create the perfect spy: a triple agent with a cover that can't be broken, because it's genuine. What Harry doesn't realise is that if he is setting the perfect trap, the Communist Chinese may also be finding the perfect bait. And that as the Cold War escalates and China marches towards Cultural Revolution and the end of the twentieth-century, the fates of two people who love each other are entirely unimportant...
Format: Perfect Paperback
Pages: 593
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
Published: Jun 2008
ISBN 10: 0340953225
ISBN 13: 9780340953228
Book Overview: Two lovers are torn apart by politics and history in this epic romance of twentieth-century China, during a period of dizzying change.