Our Friends in Beijing
$67.41
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
29 December 2021
Summary
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 cafe 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473674530 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473674530 |
| Author: | John Simpson |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 29 December 2021 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 158mm x 38mm |
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Critics Review
‘fast-paced …The novel allows Simpsons to stretch his writing muscles.’ * Irish Times *
‘All novelists draw on their own experiences to some extent in their writing, but John Simpson goes much further. In Our Friends in Beijing, his second foray into fiction, the BBC’s long-serving world affairs editor reveals in public for the first time an old wound from the 30-plus war zones from which he has reported.’
* Telegraph *This is a clever, atmospheric and in its best moments nail bitingly tense novel. Swift and Simpson are the ideal company for a journey down the mean streets of an alarming new world. * Shots Mag *About The Author
John Simpson
John Simpson has been the BBC’s World Affairs Editor for more than half his fifty-two-year career. In his time with the BBC, he has reported on major events all over the world, and was made a CBE in the Gulf War honours list in 1991. He has twice been the Royal Television Society’s Journalist of the Year, and has won three BAFTAs, a News and Current Affairs award and an Emmy. He lives in Oxford.
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