Books

The Price of Survival
China, 1938.
Japan’s invasion has united China’s Nationalists and Communists against a common enemy. While armies wage war on the battlefield, intelligence officer Chen Minghe fights in the shadows. When he discovers a Nationalist spy operating at the heart of the Communist movement, circumstances lead to her disappearance...

29 January 2026. Ranked #9 in Historical Thrillers at amazon.com

5 out of 5 stars: “The story was informative and entertaining. I got a good sense of what the Chinese Revolution was like from 1921 to 1937—desperate, brutal, and chaotic. I learned how a person became a top spy—and the level of intelligence, inventiveness, and desire they needed to...

The Dead Microphones is the sequel to the The Lure of The Red Dragon. It starts in the same vein, often humorous, describing life and how to live in China for a foreigner and unravels further mysteries, confusion, and pleasures, of living in the most populous country on earth. The interwoven love story also continues.

Halfway through the book, as...

China today is changing as fast as any time in its history. For a visitor, or someone on a lengthier stay, it can be a baffling country that can only be unravelled by persistence and curiosity. This book shows what it is really like to live in modern China and provides a deep understanding of the reality, the taboos, the challenges, the...

Encompassing both fact and fiction “The Climate for Change” has
something for everyone within its pages. This book represents the
culmination of over a year of work from nine of the writers in the
Suzhou Writers Group.

Prepare yourself for a wild ride through an eclectic collection of
writing, spanning fictional genres, with all the writing falling...