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The Dragon Gate Conspiracy
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Wuhan, 1926. Civil war has reached the Yangtze. Foreign gunboats ride at anchor off the Hankow bund, and inside the concessions the great powers watch one another across the river.
Jack Gaines, a young Marine officer, came to guard a few square miles of foreign ground, not to involve himself in other men's secrets. Then he meets Natalya Rosenberg, an American reporter with a sharp tongue, leftist sympathies, and a past she keeps to herself. Together they begin to pull apart a blackmail scheme far larger than it first appears, one that runs through the city's gangsters, Japanese and Soviet intelligence, and the upper reaches of the diplomatic world.
It turns on the Dragon Gate Teahouse, and on a locked safe holding photographs and ledgers that more than one government would rather see burned. As the warlord regime collapses and old alliances come apart, Jack and Natalya have to take what is in that safe before the men hunting it reach them, and before the city falls around them.
Historical espionage set in a China most Western readers have never encountered: as exacting on its period as Patrick O'Brian, told with the moral weight of Graham Greene, and built on the scale of James Clavell.
