num_pages: 368
description: American Ellie Cooper deserted by her husband has made a number of friends in China. But suddenly one of them disappears and security organizations are hounding her for information. Contacted through an online role-playing game by a group claiming to be friends of Lao Zhang asking her for help Ellie does the only thing she can - keep on playing.Iraq vet Ellie Cooper is down and out in China trying to lose herself in the alien worlds of performance artists and online gamers. When a chance encounter with a Muslim fugitive drops her down a rabbit hole of conspiracies Ellie must decide who to trust among the artists dealers collectors and operatives claiming to be on her side  in particular a mysterious organization operating within a popular online game.
language: English
title: Rock Paper Tiger
publisher: Soho Press