{{short description|Canadian novelist and journalist}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL}} '''Adam Brookes''' is a Canadian-born British–American novelist and journalist.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Steinfeld|first=Jemimah|date=2015-06-10|title=A license to thrill? Spy novelists hit pay dirt in China|url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/10/asia/china-spy-novels/index.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-19|website=CNN|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610164256/http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/10/asia/china-spy-novels/index.html |archive-date=2015-06-10 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Forsythe|first=Michael|date=2014-09-15|title=Q. and A.: Adam Brookes on China, Secrets and Spies|url=https://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/15/q-and-a-adam-brookes-on-china-secrets-and-spies/|access-date=2021-02-19|website=Sinosphere Blog|language=en-US}}</ref> He is the author of multiple spy thriller novels including ''Night Heron'' (2014) drawing on his life in journalism and years in China,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Thomas|first=Mark|date=2020-02-08|title=The slow death of the spy thriller|url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6615883/the-slow-death-of-the-spy-thriller/|access-date=2021-02-19|website=The Canberra Times|language=en-AU}}</ref> featuring fictional journalist Philip Mangan.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Anderson|first=Patrick|date=2014-06-09|title=Adam Brookes's 'Night Heron' is a top-notch thriller about stolen secrets|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/night-heron-by-adam-brookes/2014/06/09/ff14836c-df50-11e3-9743-bb9b59cde7b9_story.html|access-date=2021-02-19|issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Book Review: 'The Director' and 'Night Heron'|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/06/03/318575925/book-review-the-director-and-night-heron|access-date=2021-02-19|website=NPR.org|language=en}}</ref> The book received positive reviews from outlets including NPR, ''The Washington Post'', and ''The Canberra Times''. His follow-up novels include ''Spy Games'' (2015)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adam-brookes/spy-games/|title=SPY GAMES|publisher=Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}</ref> and ''The Spy's Daughter'' (2017),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adam-brookes/the-spys-daughter/|title=THE SPY'S DAUGHTER|publisher=Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}</ref> which along with 'Night Heron' comprise the Philip Mangan book trilogy.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Spy's Daughter by Adam Brookes |url=https://www.hachette.com.au/adam-brookes/the-spys-daughter |website=hachette.com.au |publisher=Hachette Australia |access-date=13 August 2021}}</ref> ''The Spy's Daughter'' received recognition from ''The Telegraph'' as one of its 50 Best Books of 2017.<ref>{{cite news |title=40. The Spy's Daughter by Adam Brookes (Sphere) {{!}} The 50 best books of 2017 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/50-best-books-2017/40-spys-daughter-adam-brookes-sphere/ |access-date=13 August 2021 |publisher=The Telegraph |date=26 November 2017}}</ref>

As a journalist in the area of spycraft and foreign relations, he has been a frequent commentator and panelist on military and international affairs.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Brookes|first=Adam|title=Is China Swarming With Foreign Spies?|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/11/04/is-china-swarming-with-foreign-spies/|access-date=2021-02-19|website=Foreign Policy|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Brookes |first1=Adam |title=Adam Brookes {{!}} Journalism |url=https://www.adambrookes.com/journalism-archive |website=adambrookes.com |access-date=13 August 2021}}</ref>

His 2023 historical nonfiction book ''Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City'' covers the saga of the relocation of treasures from the National Beijing Palace Museum during World War II, and how they emerged at their final destination of the National Palace Museum in Taiwan.

== Early life and education == Brookes was born in Canada and moved to the United Kingdom, growing up in a village in Oxfordshire. He studied Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Brookes worked as a journalist for the BBC in Indonesia as Jakarta Correspondent. He then worked as BBC's Beijing Correspondent in China for six years before moving to its Washington, D.C. office.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Some Random Thoughts on Portraying China in Journalism and Commercial Fiction By Adam Brookes|url=https://ealac.georgetown.edu/some-random-thoughts-on-portraying-china-in-journalism-and-commercial-fiction-by-adam-brookes/|access-date=2021-02-19|website=Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures|language=en-US}}</ref>

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