The Spy's Daughter

I won this book in a goodreads drawing. A girl is a math prodigy. Her parents want her to grow up to be a spy, but she wants her own life, and tries to escape. This is a book people either love, or meet with ambivalence. Unfortunately, I seem to be in the latter camp.......more

I usually don't read spy fiction stuff. Well, thank goodness this one turned out pretty darn good. Maybe better than good, since I did give it a 5. It does take more than a few pages to figure out who the main characters are going to be. But it was worthwhile to just keep on reading - the author doe......more

The last of Adam Brookes' trilogy featuring the reluctant spy, Philip Mangan. It's good; although, in my opinion, not as good as the first, The Night Heron, which was a superlative read. Or the second, Spy Games. While the writing is taut and the tension runs high, the character of Pearl Tao, daught......more

A GIRL LIKE THAT. "“The basic principle for China is that we are in favor of more overseas Chinese, who were born in their residing countries and are willing to stay there, acquiring the nationality of those countries.” - Zhou Enlai, First Premier of the People's Republic of China. For much of spy f......more

i received this E-book from the giveaway and was not sure about reading the third book of a series to began. i am very glad that i got past this wanting to start at the beginning and read this book. there was a slight disconnect with the characters at the beginning but the story quickly takes over a......more