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The Plastic Surgeon and the Spy
Buying Time
by John Silverton
Washington
A senator. A spy. A mysterious death. A deception designed to stop a war.
Emily Chan arrives in the United States with a simple mission: gather intelligence from the inner workings of American power. Working quietly inside a senator's office, she passes information to handlers who believe they control her.
They are wrong.
As rival intelligence services close in and tensions rise across the Taiwan Strait, Emily discovers that the information she is being asked to deliver could help ignite a devastating conflict. Rather than retreat, she makes a choice that could cost her everything. She decides to manipulate the intelligence itself.
Meanwhile, plastic surgeon Dr. Jack Lambert finds himself drawn into events he neither sought nor understands. As unexplained deaths, hidden agendas, and international intrigue begin to converge, Jack is forced into a world where appearances can be deceiving and trust may be fatal.
Piece by piece, report by report, Emily constructs a carefully crafted illusion: a regional coalition preparing to defend Taiwan. If Beijing believes it, an invasion may be delayed. If the deception is exposed, she will vanish without a trace.
In the corridors of Washington, behind embassy doors, and within the shadow world of espionage, a hidden war of information unfolds. Loyalties shift. Motives remain uncertain. And the fate of millions may depend on whether one woman can keep the illusion alive long enough—and whether one man can uncover the truth before it is too late.
Because sometimes victory is not achieved on the battlefield.
Sometimes victory is simply buying time.
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PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
Kindle version:
August 31, 2026
Available now on Amazon and free with Amazon Unlimited
Paperback version:
October 8, 2026
Hard cover version:
November 30, 2026
Project Lantern
A Hong Kong Espionage Thriller
by John SilvertonA hidden room. A locked box. A secret that survived the Hong Kong handover.
Former Metropolitan Police investigator Mike Lee is hired by an enigmatic client to investigate The Badger, a heavily guarded colonial house high above Hong Kong Harbour.
The house is not for sale. Its ownership is concealed behind shell companies. And its former owners—a retired British Army doctor and his wife—left Hong Kong in a rush just before the 1997 handover, after accepting an extraordinary cash offer for the house and everything inside it.
Mike’s search leads him to Dr Jack Lambert, a Los Angeles plastic surgeon who grew up at The Badger. Jack remembers something his parents never explained: a concealed safe room near the old wine cellar, reached through an abandoned escape tunnel.
What they recover is not the forgotten family heirloom they expect.
It points to Project Lantern—a covert operation from the final days of British Hong Kong, involving coded names, medical movements, cancelled escapes, and promises powerful people would prefer to keep buried.
Before Mike and Jack can learn the full truth, Mike’s client takes possession of the evidence.
But one overlooked item remains.
An old cassette recording labelled:
THE BADGER — 30.06.97
As surveillance closes in from Hong Kong to England and Los Angeles, Mike and Jack must decide whom they can trust. The recording may expose a buried political betrayal, place innocent people in danger, and reveal a family connection neither man sees coming.
Project Lantern is a tense geopolitical thriller of secret histories, international surveillance, dangerous loyalties, and the past waiting for its chance to return.
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For readers of literary thrillers, family secrets, and psychological turning points in politically charged suspense.
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