The Spy's Daughter
The stunning third novel from multi-award-nominated author Adam Brookes is paranoid, tense and spy fiction at its very finest.
Meet Pearl Tao: an American girl with a lethal secret.
Pearl longed for the life of a normal American teenager: summers at the pool, friends, backyard barbecues in the Washington DC suburbs. But she was different.
Pearl had a gift for mathematics, a college sponsorship from a secretive technology corporation, and a family riven with anger and dysfunction. And it's only now, at nineteen years old, that she has started to understand what role she is to play. What her parents intend for her.
For Pearl Tao, any hope of escape lies with two British spies: Trish Patterson, sidelined in disgrace, and Philip Mangan, blown and discredited - and following his own trail of corruption. Finding out the truth about Pearl will be the most urgent, the most dangerous mission they'll ever undertake.
Adam Brookes
ADAM BROOKES is an author whose writing draws on his years in China and his study of Chinese, as well as his years as a journalist and foreign correspondent. Adam was born in Canada, but grew up in the UK. He studied Chinese at SOAS, University of London. His first job in broadcast journalism was as a copytaster at the BBC World Service, a job now extinct.
Over two and a half decades in journalism he worked mainly for BBC News as Jakarta correspondent, Beijing correspondent and Washington correspondent, and reported from many other places, including Iraq and Afghanistan. He lives in the United States.
Philip Mangan
Philip Mangan consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
