BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner talks to Julia Wheeler about Invasion, the latest of his bestselling Luke Carlton thrillers, which traces an ominous gathering of Chinese armed forces and the threat of unpredictable global conflict.

BBC Security Correspondent, journalist and author, Frank Gardner uses his experience reporting on global security stories – from wars in Afghanistan to piracy off the Somali coast – to chillingly bring fact into his fiction amid high-risk stakes and political tension. Shot six times at close range while on assignment in Saudi Arabia in 2004 he was left severely wounded and dependent on a wheelchair. He was awarded an OBE by HM The Queen in 2005. He is author of Blood and Sand; Far Horizons; Crisis; and Ultimatum. A keen photographer of nature and wildlife he has been president of the British Trust for Ornithology since 2019.

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