Our Friends in Beijing
- Author John Simpson
- Narrator John Simpson
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Publish Date 22 July 2021
- Run Time 9 hours and 40 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Espionage and spy thriller, Modern and contemporary fiction, Political / legal thriller.
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OLD FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIES
Jon Swift is in trouble again. His journalism career is in freefall. He is too old to be part of the new world order and he has never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to trust his instincts.
When, for the first time in years, Jon runs into Lin Lifeng in a café in Oxford he wonders if the meeting is a coincidence. When Lin asks him to pass on a coded message, he knows it's not. Once a radical student who helped Jon broadcast the atrocities of Tiananmen Square, Lin is now a well-dressed party official with his own agenda.
Travelling to Beijing, Jon starts to follow a tangled web in which it is hard to know who are friends and who are enemies. As he ricochets across the country, Jon seeks to make sense of the ways in which China's past and present are colliding - and what that means for the future of the country and the world. Under the watchful eyes of an international network of spies, double-agents and politicians, all with a ruthless desire for power, Jon is in a high-stakes race to expose the truth, before it's too late.
(P) 2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
| Author | John Simpson |
|---|---|
| Narrator | John Simpson |
| Duration | 9 hours and 40 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781529344233 |
| Format | x-book® |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Genre | Espionage and spy thriller, Modern and contemporary fiction, Political / legal thriller |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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