Shadow of Hong Kong - Glen Hatcher

Hong Kong is bright enough to hide almost anything.

Marcus Kane arrives in the city on a deniable intelligence mission with simple orders, intercept a dangerous broker, recover a sensitive device, and disappear. But within hours the broker is dead, Kane’s extraction has vanished, another team is hunting him, and the people who sent him are no longer telling the same story.

At the centre of the deception lies the Jade Ledger, a divided intelligence archive containing secret identities, hidden payments, abandoned operations and evidence powerful people would rather erase. Some want it destroyed. Others want to sell it. And someone needs Marcus Kane alive badly enough to turn Hong Kong into a battlefield.

With former intelligence assets dying around him and his own chain of command compromised, Kane is forced into an uneasy partnership with Mei Lin, the counterintelligence officer originally assigned to capture him. Their search takes them from Victoria Harbour and the crowded streets of Kowloon to Lantau, container yards, hidden maritime routes and the dark waters beyond the city.

Behind it all is Victor Graves, a former spymaster who understands exactly how governments use people, and how much their secrets are worth.

Kane came to Hong Kong believing he knew who the enemy was.

Now he must decide who can be trusted, what truth is worth protecting, and whose orders he is still prepared to follow.

Shadow of Hong Kong is a fast paced international espionage thriller filled with covert operations, intelligence betrayal, political intrigue and high stakes action, and the first novel in the Marcus Kane Thriller series.