Ceremony of Innocence

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For Hong Kong policeman Laurie McKillop, his role has become largely symbolic since the handover, with the Chinese secret police the new authority in the former colony. But when he is contacted by an old CIA acquaintance with a very strange story to tell of a secret Chinese-American weapons project that has suddenly become red-hot, he is about to find himself back in the front line. And when his American friend is ruthlessly hunted down by the secret police, he begins to realize that the Chinese are not the only ones who need him dead.

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Humphrey Hawksley has been a BBC correspondent specialising in Asia for more than ten years, and has recently been reporting from troublespots such as Kosovo and Iraq. In the Eighties he was in India, the Philippines and Sri Lanka - from where he was expelled while covering the Tamil war. From 1990 he was based in Hong Kong as a regional correspondent and in 1994 moved to Beijing to open the BBC's first television bureau in China. He is the co-author of Dragonstrike: the Millennium War, an analysis of a future Asian conflict described by Chris Patten as 'a cracking read...realistic and gipping', and is the author of one previous acclaimed thriller, Ceremony of Innocence.