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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 agency Or has another less predictable player entered the game As geo political tensions rise MI6 field operatives Luke Carlton and Jenny Li are dispatched to find the missing agent and the precious intel she carries With the clock ticking and tip offs taking them to shady Macau casinos tawd