The Dragon’s Tail

Name: The Dragon’s Tail
Rating: 3.97 (161 reviews)

by Adam Williams Book 3 in the China Trilogy series.

First published 2007

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During the Korean War, British intelligence recruits Scottish fisherman Harry Airton for a long operation built around his genuine connection to China. Twelve years later he returns to the country as a triple agent whose cover appears impossible to break. Chinese intelligence answers with Ziwei, a young woman coerced into becoming a honey trap under threat to her mother, but the emotional bond between target and agent destabilises both governments’ plans.

The operation unfolds across the political campaigns, prisons and betrayals of the People’s Republic, reaching the Cultural Revolution and the violence of June 1989. Harry and Ziwei must choose between national loyalty, personal survival and responsibility for those placed in danger by their decisions. The final volume of the China Trilogy combines espionage and romance with a long view of Maoist rule, political imprisonment and the consequences of ideological power.