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Invasion
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  • Published: 23 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9781473597495
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

Invasion

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15 July 2025
EBook
23 May 2024
Audiobook
23 May 2024
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One of the bestselling names in British spy thrillers, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner's new novel sees MI6 operative Luke Carlton racing against time to prevent the next geo-political cataclysm: China's threatened invasion of Taiwan . . .

Discover the explosive new Luke Carlton spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller and BBC security correspondent.

‘Everything is impressive in this masterly account . . . Exhilarating’ Sunday Times

‘Genuinely unnerving and fast-paced . . . highly recommended’ Irish Independent

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?

A mole deep within the Chinese Communist Party leadership has some explosive intel that could defuse this geo-political timebomb. But before Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service can get hold of the data, the ‘collector’ sent to recover it is abducted.

As global tensions rise, MI6 operatives Luke Carlton and Jenny Li are dispatched to find the missing agent and the precious information she carries.

With the clock ticking and tip-offs taking them to shady Macau casinos, tawdry night clubs and down multiple dead ends, Luke is convinced they are being deliberately strung along.

Then they get the vital lead they need. It points to Taiwan – a country frantically preparing for imminent invasion. And it’s there that Luke and Jenny uncover what is really going on. . .

Drawing on his years of experience reporting on global security stories and in-depth knowledge of the security services, Frank Gardner has written his most frighteningly real, unnerving and explosive thriller yet.

Praise for Frank Gardner:

'Fast, taut, tense, accurate.' Frederick Forsyth, bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal

'Utterly authentic.' Daily Mail

‘Thriller writing of a high order.' Financial Times

'Nerve-shredding.' Tony Parsons, bestselling author of the Max Wolfe series

'Heart-in-mouth.' i-Newspaper

'Compulsively readable.' Radio Times
  • Published: 23 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9781473597495
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448
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About the author

Frank Gardner

Born in 1961, Frank Gardner has been the BBC's Security Correspondent since 2002. He holds a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies. In 2004, while filming in Saudi Arabia, he was ambushed by terrorists, shot multiple times and left for dead. He survived and returned to active news reporting within a year. Although paralysed in the legs, he still travels extensively, reporting from Ukraine to Colombia to Saudi Arabia. Awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to journalism, Frank published his bestselling memoir, Blood and Sand, in 2006. His first novel, the thriller Crisis, which introduced readers to SIS operative Luke Carlton, was a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. The second and third Luke Carlton thrillers, Ultimatum and Outbreak, were also bestsellers, as was the fourth, the Taiwan-set Invasion. Frank Gardner lives in London.

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Crisis
Ballistic
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Praise for Invasion

A genuinely unnerving and fast-paced race-against-time thriller . . . its potent combination of Tom Clancy-style hi-tech military and naval manoeuvring and a John Le Carre-like espionage thriller rings all too true . . . highly recommended.

IRISH INDEPENDENT

Everything is impressive in this masterly account . . . exhilarating (if alarming) topicality.

SUNDAY TIMES

Tensions rise to boiling point . . . Gardner cuts to the molten core of a modern flashpoint in an electric thriller.

THE SUN

Praise for Frank Gardner

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Fast, taut, tense, accurate.

Frederick Forsyth

Gardner skilfully mixes knowledge garnered as the BBC’s security correspondent with breathless action.

The Times

Thriller writing of a high order . . . Gardner steadily ratchets up the tension, peppering the narrative with nuggets of expertise . . . an enthralling, intelligent read.

Financial Times

Confirms Frank Gardner’s place among the pantheon of distinguished reporters who have become excellent thriller writers, including Gerald Seymour and Frederick Forsyth . . . utterly authentic.

Daily Mail

A fast and exciting story rooted in the present horrifying dangers that surround us . . . brimful of an insider’s insights . . . reeks of authority.

Gerald Seymour

Combines insider knowledge with heart-in-mouth excitement.

i-Newspaper