A thriller set in the world of high finance against the backdrop of the cold war.
Highly-charged diaries of the first western hostage of the modern era, published verbatim for the first time, some forty years after his release.[...]
Vietnam's heady tropical landscape captivates fifteen-year-old Joseph Sherman on a hunting expedition to French colonial Saigon with his family in 1925. He is lured back again and again by his enduring fascination for the country and for Lan, a beautiful Vietnamese mandarin's daughter he could never[...]
To a China racked by famine and bloody civil war in the 1930s, a young English-born missionary, Jakob Kellner, brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith.[...]