John Polly enters Shanghai in 1948 on a muggy, velvet evening, just in time for the Communist takeover of China. It marks only his fourth month in America's newly-formed Central Intelligence Agency. Over the next two decades Polly will become THE WHITE MANDARIN, a double agent buried so deep within the inner circle of the People's Republic as to shape the futures of both that nation and his own.  Dan Sherman's intricate, superbly crafted spy thriller follows Polly as he walks a dangerous tightrope of intrigue and suspense. As China rebuilds itself, Polly attempts to start a family in the intersection between the American intelligence system and the Asian drug trade. Can Polly keep his wife and daughter safe? Can he keep track of the shifting stories and changing allegiances in the CIA? Will his emotion get in the way of his mission?  Only pages into this stunning novel, readers will easily understand why Sherman has earned comparison to the great John La Carré and Graham Greene. It is both a story of very personal love and loss and an insightful history of China between the rise of Chairman Mao and the 1972 visit by President Nixon. Anyone looking to understand China of yesterday and today-its power, its flaws, its beauty-need look no further than THE WHITE MANDARIN.

White Mandarin (Panther Books)

Dan Sherman

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Severn House

Arise to Conquer

History

Wing Cmdr Ian DFC. Gleed

Military

Daddy's Gone A-hunting

Daddy's gone a-hunting

Mortimer, Penelope

(Hardcover - 1975) 207 Pages, 1lb, . Author: Richard Hough, Publisher: Severn House Publishers, Edition: 1975 Printing, Size: 8x5.25x0.6 inch, Subject: Naval History, Title: The Fleet That Had To Die

The Fleet That Had to Die

richard-hough

Asia

The Patriot

PEARL S. BUCK

Literature & Fiction

Frederick Delius

Beecham, Thomas

Arts & Photography

Music

The big time

Leiber,Fritz

Classics

Tony Hawkin wasn't really made for the FBI. He rarely hit what he aimed at, forgot his own code name, and had a tendency to panic at the slightest hint of trouble. Now he's gotten himself handcuffed to an attaché case with $2 million inside and stuffed aboard a hijacked DC-10 bound for Scotland, where he's chased through the countryside by the hijackers, Scots patriots, a crazy Cuban colonel, and half the police force. All of them want only two things—the money and Tony's head in a noose. Once again Special Agent Tony Hawkin must rely on his own brand of expertise to outwit and confound a nefarious array of foes. Tony's plan is simple: lead them all back to London, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and deposit them at the gates of Scotland Yard. There is just one small problem: London is 500 miles away, and Tony has no idea which way that is....

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