One day you're a happily married man with a great job and family. The next day both your job and family are gone, the White House wants you rubbed out, you're broke and on the run in China and terrorists want to capture you...all because you're the key witness in a case against the President. There's nowhere to run when the U.S. President, the Chinese and Islamic terrorists all want to track you down! From Washington to Hollywood to Cuba to China, a diverse group of strong-willed heroes challenges powerful forces in a full-throttle race for life, liberty and justice. As in his other thrillers, Fritz Galt gives us a penetrating glimpse into foreign cultures, throws a glaring spotlight on flaws in our national security and evokes the strength of our national character in a story that will make you lock your doors and read all night!

In Mandarin Gate, Edgar Award winner Eliot Pattison brings Shan back in a thriller that navigates the explosive political and religious landscape of Tibet. In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government. Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd been sentenced, Shan has been living in remote mountains of Tibet with a group of outlawed Buddhist monks. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, Shan has just begun to settle into his menial job as an inspector of irrigation and sewer ditches in a remote Tibetan township when he encounters a wrenching crime scene. Strewn across the grounds of an old Buddhist temple undergoing restoration are the bodies of two unidentified men and a Tibetan nun. Shan quickly realizes that the murders pose a riddle the Chinese police might in fact be trying to cover up. When he discovers that a nearby village has been converted into a new internment camp for Tibetan dissidents arrested in Beijing's latest pacification campaign, Shan recognizes the dangerous landscape he has entered. To find justice for the victims and to protect an American woman who witnessed the murders, Shan must navigate through the treacherous worlds of the internment camp, the local criminal gang, and the government's rabid pacification teams, while coping with his growing doubts about his own identity and role in Tibet.

Brad West has just been dumped, in China, by his girlfriend. He is left in the clutches of a killer while May, his seductive Chinese sweetheart, and her dad, an expert at mind control, take off for America. But the CIA desperately wants Brad back, along with his psychic powers. They need him to investigate a rigged race for the White House and to fix a rapidly disintegrating economy. Can he ward off the assailant, brush aside snide remarks from his buddy and lift his sagging spirits in time to attack the anarchy in America? Join Brad and friends on an epic action-comedy romp from Beijing to Vegas in search of the naked truth. And to save May and the nation from...Mind Control.

Gutsy American commando George Ferrar has uncovered terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan trying to smuggle a nuclear bomb into the United States. He informs the Pentagon, CIA and FBI, but everybody seems to think that he is the culprit…including the woman he loves. The race is on to save the nation. Can Ferrar find the bomb before America’s military, FBI and police stop him? Enjoy the vividly portrayed locations, fascinating cultural details and international intrigue from Afghanistan to Pakistan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, England and Canada. Then hold on tight for a bone-jarring chase across America…by road, rail, air and sea. In the end, he and his lover must escape…THE TRAP!

When the CIA learns that a renegade operative has gone berserk in the Balkans and is fanning the flames of war, they send in Mick Pierce to eliminate him. The only problem is that the operative is Mick's double-crossing brother Alec. Can Mick stop his brother and halt the march of armies? Mick races through the underworld of Serbia, Hungary, Romania, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece trying to avert a global catastrophe…only to learn that the CIA has double-crossed him!

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta made a big mistake. They fired a medical researcher who holds the key to the world’s tiniest weapon of mass destruction. And he’s mad. His brother is a jihadist with a mission, and these deadly malaria parasites will bring him the results he needs, starting with infecting South Asia with a pandemic of fatal stings. When the daughter of former CIA officer Mick Pierce falls ill from the new, lethal disease, he and his wife Natalie begin a tense chase from the CDC to the CIA to Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Kashmir in a quest to diffuse the biological time bomb and find the madmen who hold the world hostage with a vaccine. Leading a team of crack Navy commandos, Mick begins Operation Fatal Sting that will determine his daughter’s fate…and the future of the world.

An epic history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. Essential reading for anyone wishing to deal with China or to understand the world in which we live. The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on documents from archives in China and the West, interviews with key figures and eyewitness reporting over three decades. The story takes the reader from the earliest days of trade through the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century to the age of globalisation, the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China, the fight for democracy on the city's streets and the ultimate victory of the Chinese Communist Party. As the West seeks a new China policy, we learn from private papers how Margaret Thatcher anguished over the fate of Hong Kong, sought secret American briefings on how to deal with Beijing and put her trust in a spymaster who was tormented by his own doubts. The Chinese version of history, so often unheard, emerges from memoirs and documents, many of them entirely new to the foreign reader, which reveal China's negotiating tactics. The voices of Hong Kong people eloquent, smart and bold speak compellingly here at every turn. The Gate to China tells how Hong Kong was the gate to China as it reformed its economy and changed the world, emerging to challenge the West with a new order that raised fundamental questions about freedom, identity, and progress. Told through real human stories and a gripping narrative for the general reader, it is also critical reading for all who study, trade or deal with China.