Our Friends In Beijing Av John Simpson

<p>Jon Swift is in trouble.<br><br>His journalism career is in freefall.<br><br>He''s too old to be part of the new world order and he''s never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to trust his instincts.<br><br> When, for the first time in years, Jon runs into Lin Lifeng in a café 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. <br><br> Travelling to Beijing, Jon starts to follow a tangled web in which it is hard to know who he can trust. Under the watchful eyes of an international network of spies, double-agents and politicians, all with a ruthless desire for power, Jon is in a high-stakes race to expose the truth, before it''s too late.</p>