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 caf-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 h
