num_pages: 350
description: Jake Grafton takes his wife Callie along when the U.S. government sends him to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the U.S. consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal. And why not? Jake and Callie met and fell in love in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War and the consul-general is an old friend from those days Tiger Cole. The Graftons quickly discover that Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to explode. A political murder and the closure of a foreign bank by the communist government are the sparks that light the fuse . . . and Tiger Cole is right in the middle of the action. When Callie is kidnapped by a rebel faction Jake finds himself drawn into the vortex of a high-tech civil war. Drawing on the skills of CIA operative Tommy Carmellini in order to save his wife Jake Grafton must figure out who he can trust-both among the Western factions vying for control of the volatile situation and among the Chinese patriots fighting for their nation's future-and make sure the right side wins.
language: English
title: Hong Kong
publisher: St Martins Press