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A Drop of Chinese Blood (Inspector O, Bk 5)
A Drop of Chinese Blood - Inspector O, Bk 5 Author:James Church A novel introducing Inspector O’s nephew, Major Bing, the long-suffering chief of the Chinese Ministry of State Security operations on the border with North Korea. — The last place Bing expected to find the stunningly beautiful Madame Fang -- a woman Headquarters wants closely watched -- was on his front doorstep. Then, as suddenly as... more » she shows up, Madame Fang mysteriously disappears across the river into North Korea, leaving in her wake both consternation and a highly sensitive assignment for Bing to bring back from the North a long missing Chinese security official. Concerned for his nephew’s safety, O reluctantly helps him navigate an increasingly complex and deadly maze, one that leads down the twisted byways of O’s homeland. In the tradition of Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy, and the Inspector Arkady Renko novels, A Drop of Chinese Blood presents an unfamiliar world, a perplexing universe where the rules are an enigma to the reader and even, sometimes, to Inspector O.« less