Invasion

by Frank Gardner

ISBN: 9780552178747

Published: 2025-01-16

THE NEW LUKE CARLTON THRILLER.BBC Security Correspondent FRANK GARDNER'S thrillers are . . . 'Fast, taut, tense, accurate.' FREDERICK FORSYTH 'Utterly authentic.' DAILY MAIL 'Enthralling, intelligent.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Nerve-shredding.' TONY PARSONS 'Heart-in-mouth.' i-NEWSPAPER 'Compulsively readable.' RADIO TIMES __________________________________________ The world is on high alert. Across the Strait from Taiwan, China's armed forces appear to be readying for war. Could the People's Republic be preparing to invade its island neighbour? Britain's Secret Intelligence Service has a mole deep within the Chinese Communist Party leadership - an individual in possession of intel that could defuse this fast-escalating situation. A 'collector' is sent to meet the spy and, in an anonymous Hong Kong café, the information is handed over. But before the collector can get the data to MI6, she is overpowered, drugged and abducted by persons unknown. Is it the MSS, China's feared state security...