Adam Brookes Books in Order
Adam Brookes has written 4 books, published between 2014 and 2023. The first book is Night Heron (2014) and the newest is Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 4
- Published
- 2014–2023
- Total pages
- 1,715 across 4 books
- Reading time
- 29–43 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,715 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.
Adam Brookes writes spy fiction out of a journalist's career. The Canadian-born British-American novelist drew on years reporting from China for his Philip Mangan trilogy, Night Heron (2014), Spy Games (2015) and The Spy's Daughter (2017), which follows a fictional journalist through espionage in Beijing and beyond. The Telegraph named The Spy's Daughter one of its 50 best books of 2017. Brookes turned to nonfiction with Fragile Cargo (2023), on the wartime effort to save the treasures of China's Forbidden City.
How many Adam Brookes books are there?
Adam Brookes has 4 books, released between 2014 and 2023. 3 of them belong to the Philip Mangan series.
Adam Brookes Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 4 Adam Brookes books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 120143872/4
- 220154962/4
- 320174482/4
- 4Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City2023 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/420233842/4
Adam Brookes books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Philip Mangan in order
3 booksStandalone books
1 book1 Adam Brookes title here is not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Adam Brookes books in order?
You only need to read Adam Brookes books in order within the Philip Mangan series, which holds 3 of the 4 Adam Brookes books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Adam Brookes
Start with Night Heron (2014), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Adam Brookes book?
Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City (2023) is the newest Adam Brookes book released so far.
Is there a new Adam Brookes book coming?
No next Adam Brookes book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Adam Brookes at a glance
- Paused
- No new Adam Brookes title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Adam Brookes books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 1,715 pages across all 4 books with a recorded length, a median of 418 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Adam Brookes books, 3 of 4, were published in the 2010s.
What the Adam Brookes books are about
3 of the 4 Adam Brookes books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: journalists is tagged on 2 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Journalists 2 of 3 books
- Suspense 2 of 3 books
- Thrillers 2 of 3 books
- Beijing (china) 1 of 3 books
- Classified Defense information 1 of 3 books
- Espionage 1 of 3 books
- Intelligence officers 1 of 3 books
- International relations 1 of 3 books
- Investigation 1 of 3 books
- Murder 1 of 3 books